Mentoring, Leadership, & Homemaking
I gave birth to our fifth child a few months after my 40th birthday. She was the first girl to be born into my husband’s family in almost 70 years, and her arrival greatly altered the landscape in what was once “boy kingdom.” There are many things I look forward to doing with her and for her, such as holding tea parties, teaching her to cook, star gazing, and playing dolls together. Most importantly, I want to pass on to {Read More}
I recently received a mug from a friend that says, “Friends are the sisters I get to choose.” That is such a true statement in my life. I love the blood family God gave to me. We live several states apart now so God has filled my heart with chosen family. I thank God for the sisters by choice who stop their lives for a cold soda or glass of water and an encouraging conversation. I am thankful for sisters {Read More}
This year has been a season of change for my family. Our family has grown by two daughter-in-laws, we have moved from where we lived for twelve years to start ministry at a new church field, traveled internationally and found out I will be a grandmother. All of this in such a short period of time, it has been like living in a whirlwind. In reflecting on what God has taught me, I believe trusting Him would be number one {Read More}
Have you ever poured liquid into a container just to have it run out again? To your dismay there was a crack in the container. It wouldn’t have mattered how much you poured in because it would have assuredly drained out again. You had a broken vessel. Sometimes I feel like a broken vessel. When my heart is broken by an event which my loving Heavenly Father has allowed in my life, I weep. My chest physically aches to think {Read More}
Don’t we all just love it when someone mentions the Proverbs 31 woman? Almost immediately most of our eyes just roll as we let out a little sarcastic chuckle. Recently, however, I decided to read this chapter again. Turns out, there are some very basic fundamentals we can learn from her. We don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to apply the basic truths I think this chapter is trying to get across to us. I found 4 {Read More}
“Kindness is love doing little things, things that seem scarcely worth doing, and yet which mean much to those for whom they are wrought. Kindness lends a hand when another is burdened. It speaks the cheerful word when a heart is discouraged. It gives a cup of cold water when one is thirsty. It is always doing good turns to somebody. It goes about performing little ministries with a touch of blessing. It scatters its favors everywhere. Few qualities do {Read More}
President Franklin Roosevelt in his first inaugural address in 1933 famously said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” We know what he was trying to do—encourage people not to become paralyzed by their fears in that Great Depression era. (A victim of polio, FDR knew about paralysis.) As a quote it was memorable but as an effective exhortation, not so much. We all know instinctively that there are many things that cause fear—besides fear itself. {Read More}
Women often ask me to mentor them in their marriages. The marriage road has been rocky for us – we’re the first to admit that – but we keep at it with persistent determination. These women know I will be honest with them, and that I will challenge them. But I will not ask them to do things I am not willing to do myself. Mentors are not preachers, and are more than just teachers. Mentors are those who are {Read More}
Ever since Adam and Eve, God has been writing earth’s most passionate and powerful drama, a narrative from ancient past to triumphant future, a tale of redemption and hope. Most amazing of all, God is writing you and me into His story. Consider this—has anyone ever understood their place in history? Surely Abraham knew. God promised him he’d be the father of many nations, but all he experienced of the blessing was the miracle of a child born in his {Read More}
”…never the less not as I will, but as You will.” [Matthew 26:39] Recently I was asked, “What has it cost you to grow as a Christian”? I thought for a few moments, taking a quick trip back down the highway of life, remembering a multitude of decision places. Places that at the time were fraught with painful struggles and unending what if reasoning. It didn’t take too long however, before I realized I had to respond with, “my will”. {Read More}
We all need good mentors offering practical advise, wisdom, encouragement, and friendship. Here at MMCW you will find a storehouse of mentoring between generations, just as it should be.
