How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings. (Psalm 36:7 NIV) Read: Psalm 36:5-10 When my husband and I were grand-sitting our two grandchildren, my husband played pretend games with two-and-a-half-year-old Clara. Meanwhile, …
Motherhood
12 Ways to a No-Regret Life
Teach these practical, transferable 12 crucial life lessons to help your children make wise choices, each day. From truths learned from personal experience, we want to encourage you to teach your children these disaster-busters. (They work well for adults, too.) 1) Apologize quickly and sincerely …
Parenting Conference
Many of you have come to love and appreciate Molly Evert’s parenting podcasts here at MMCW. March 11-12th she will be sharing at the Biblical Parenting Vision and Strategy conference on building loyalty between siblings in Atlanta, GA. This is a unique conference blending encouragement …
What’s the Plan?
The first of my four children is preparing to leave home. I use the word preparing loosely because there is no real plan, at least not one that qualifies as mom and dad approved. He was gung-ho for the Marines until the repeal of “don’t …
God’s Grace for Everyday Situations
We were rushing out of the house for the end-of-the-year testing required of homeschool children. One of my children slept late, leaving no time for either his breakfast or packing a snack for the day. I told him it was too bad he had not …
Slowing the Pace
Driving into the mall parking lot, I could not avoid the tailgating impatient driver behind me. When the opportunity arose, the gal floored it and sped to snag a parking spot. Obviously time was of the essence. As I was walking behind Speedy Mom into …
Is Wiping Noses Spiritual?
Martin Luther said that, “what you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God.” How can this be? Wiping noses (not to mention rear ends) gets pretty old after awhile. Sometimes a Christian …
Reforming Table Grace
When I was growing up, table grace was a memorized, auto-pilot affair. We all sat down and, out of the corner of our eye, the split second we saw someone’s head bow, we all did likewise. If you had looked in from outside, you’d have thought …
Memorial Stones
Every year on New Year’s Day we sit down as a family and write out a chronicle of the past year. It is always a blessing and an encouragement to look back and remember all that the Lord has done for us, in us and …
With Thankful Hearts
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his, we are his people, …