Bible Verses
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Finding Joy in the Chaos: Biblical Wisdom for Back-to-School Season
As the back-to-school season approaches, the excitement of new beginnings often mingles with the stress of added responsibilities. For working moms, this period can be especially challenging as you juggle career demands, household duties, and the preparation for your children’s return to school. But take heart, dear mamas, for you are not alone in this…
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Healing Our Nation Through Love and Service: Reflecting God’s Love in Divisive Times
Our nation is crumbling. We have no love or joy left in it. We only have hatred and divisive beliefs that pit parents against children, friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared, “Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political,…
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Finding Freedom in Joy: A Biblical Perspective for Worn Out Moms
As busy moms, we juggle countless responsibilities daily. Between work deadlines, school pickups, and managing a household, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Amid this busyness, finding joy can seem like an elusive goal. However, the Bible offers a pathway to true, lasting joy that can set us free from the weight of our…
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Navigating Mom Guilt: Finding God’s Peace in Your Daily Life
Being a mom is… well, a journey. Sometimes rewarding, sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating, often exhausting, and definitely not without its challenges. One of the biggest struggles working moms face is the feeling of guilt. Whether it’s missing a school event due to work or simply feeling stretched too thin, mom guilt can be triggered by…
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5 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned From My Dad
It was the last day of fifth grade and I remember it vividly. Okay, well, maybe not vividly but pretty distinctly. We weren’t the kind of family that made the kids go to the last half day of school and be there the whole time. Dad took us to get our report cards and say…
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Pursuing Peace Under Pressure: 7 Guiding Principles for Working Moms
In today’s fast-paced world, balancing the demands of work, home, and faith is unrealistic, especially for working moms. The pressures of deadlines, family responsibilities, and the desire to live out one’s faith authentically can create a whirlwind of stress and often leads to burnout if we aren’t careful. However, amidst this chaos, it is possible…
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God’s Peace: Defined
As a wife and mom of three kids seven and under working full-time outside the home, peace seems unattainable at best or, at worst, a mythical fabrication spread to give women like me a false sense of hope. However, as a Christian woman who was raised in the Church and has witnessed God’s provision, protection,…
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Pursuing Peace During Mental Health Awareness Month
The exhaustion I feel in this season of life is often unbearable. Several weeks ago, I found myself with tears streaming down my face as I received a neck massage at the chiropractor’s office. The stress had built up to the point that I could no longer manage the neck and shoulder pain without the…
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5 Ways to Cultivate Faithfulness
Hey, friends! I’m not gonna lie. It’s been a hectic few weeks (few months? years?) and I’ve been struggling emotionally and mentally. I’m a real person, with real emotions, and real stress. Life is hard. But you know what I know to be true? God‘s love for you and me. God was here before everything…
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Spring into Faithfulness
When I think about faithfulness, I think about the bulbs in my garden that are beginning to bloom. All winter they have laid dormant underground in the dark just waiting for the day to come that their leaves can start peeking through the soil and mulch. I knew they were there yet I did not…