I’ll never forget watching this young woman belt out her battle cry on America’s Got Talent. My family and I were sitting in our living room relaxing, my husband was flipping through channels on the TV and landed on a replay of America’s Got Talent. A young girl with cropped hair got up and shared…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about life it is that nothing is certain. Children grow, and with each new phase of their life our schedules change, our routines, change and as moms we’re often left scrambling and feeling like we can’t keep up. This is where I’ve been the past few weeks. We’ve come…
We are told that we are the author of our own life story. “So make it a good one”, they say. We are told that our children are blank slates, and we as parents write on their hearts through our parenting and through our “present-ness” in their lives. But do we actually wield this much…
Why do I write here at A Little R & R? Why do I sometimes use provocative titles for my blog posts? Do I seek to please men? Why am I so concerned about how many hits I get a day and how many social media followers I receive? Why do the negative comments still sting…
The danger we run into as Christians when we read familiar stories of the Bible, like David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale, Jericho, the men in the fiery furnace, is that we approach those stories much like Goldilocks and the Three Bears…. like a fairy tale, rather than a true story that actually happened…
Are you happy? I don’t mean at this very moment; I mean, do you live a perpetually happy life? Yes, I know there are the Tiggers of this world who naturally see the cup as half-full, and the Eyores who naturally see it half-empty. But despite our personality traits, with which we are born and…
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