“I don’t care about anything anymore but being a mother,” I told Ivan the other day. “My whole world revolves around Annalise. I don’t even read the news. I’ve become like all mothers everywhere…boring.” At least that’s what I thought of moms when I was younger–nice, dependable, boring. In my world, it was expected of […]
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I was recently given a newly released devotional for sexual abuse survivors, No Shame, by Melissa Heiland, in exchange for publishing an excerpt. I want to share the devotional from Day 21, titled “Committed No Sin.” The scripture passage that goes with this devotional is Deuteronomy 22:25-26: But if out in the country a man
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I read a blog post recently by a woman who had been going to a church “similar to the Mennonites” and found herself in bondage. After leaving that church, after realizing her identity in Christ and that she is a beautiful woman of God who does not need to shut up and be hidden, she
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For the last two Mondays, Ivan and I have attended a DVD series on parenting being shown at a little local country church. The series is called “Shepherding a Child’s Heart” by Ted Tripp, and I have been blessed and inspired. What stands out to me from this Monday’s session is this: our children, like
The other morning in my personal Bible reading, I read about the man who lay on a bed of lies that was too short for him. The deception could not cover him. What an apt illustration. The passage was referring to the leaders in Israel. The Lord said he knew how to thresh the different
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