Click here to listen to Amanda read this post: I wonder if it really was a silent night? When Mary’s belly clenched and there wasn’t a room and Joseph’s desperate heart lurched- looking for somewhere, anywhere, to lay His wife down. Because she was about to bring forth the Miracle the whole world had longed for, prayed for, waited for,…
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Brittany Tinsley is committed to being tenderly vulnerable about her own journey with self-injury, something many of us with traumatic experiences have struggled with. She reminds us of the value of self-compassion and that we don’t have to match the stride of our healing to anything other than our own pace. Guest blog by Brittany Tinsley- “I’ve been good for…
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It’s a joy to welcome Kyleigh Dunn to the blog today as she shares her story of postpartum depression. Guest blog by Kyleigh Dunn: I wasn’t caught off guard by postpartum depression (PPD). I’d had it before, and done all I could to prepare for it happening again. But when it came the second time, it was unlike anything I’d…
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Guest Post by Alyssa Falkenstein Hope. It’s often defined as an expectation or desire, but biblically hope is a confident expectation believing in a promise from the Lord, trusting in His strength and provision. I didn’t grow up with much hope until I met Jesus. Though I grew up in church I didn’t have an authentic relationship with the Lord…
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Sometimes when my husband comes home from work, I cry. Sounds awful, I know, but it’s always been that way. Every morning the calendar lists out what’s expected of me, all the work and all the responsibility and all the caring for the little ones. Mothers always end up being the keepers-of-all-the-things, don’t they? The appointments, the hurt feelings, the…
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