How can we support expectant mothers, new mothers, babies, and children? However your heart and mind are processing, lamenting, rejoicing in, or pondering the overturn of Roe v. Wade, I sincerely hope you are asking yourself how you can support the lives of others. This should be the discussion. I am thankful for the positive […]
An Interview with Rebecca: Encouragement for the Family on the Adoption Journey
My friend, Rebecca knows what it means to be loved by her Heavenly Father in a unique way because of the way she has been blessed to love her five children. Rebecca’s precious children have all been adopted through either private adoption or from the child services system. Each child’s situation is diverse and […]
Here’s to All the World Changers
He facetiously calls me a world changer and we have to laugh at that. Clearly, I am not going to change the world. I mean, I’m only one person, one mom, one voice. My little brother (“little” as in mid-twenty-ish years old) calls me that because we both know it is my heart’s desire. Deep down, I wish […]
Being Pro-life or Living Pro-life? The Very Real Difference That We All Need to Know
Women don’t talk about such things, the things that hurt so badly to remember, the one story that was rarely told because it was too surreal and scary a time to really ever recall. But I know. I know what it is to sit across from an obstetrician who says, “We cannot detect a […]
The Boy Mom
The basketball shorts, jersey, shoes, and socks are all laid out in a neat pile for tomorrow’s big game. My day was full of preparations for the first game of the season. It will be the first game of this year’s Upward Basketball Season that our church hosts for the community. I coach a cheerleading squad of enthusiastic, first […]