new life

Praise the Lord, it’s a new year! I love new beginnings. I love new life. I love the anticipation, the expectation, the lack of blemish. It’s just life-giving for me.
Surprisingly here in Georgia, we have been under a blanket of snow and ice for a week! With that comes the necessity of staying home. I have had my husband and kids around me, with no opportunity of going out for several days. And it’s been good. God has really been speaking to my heart through it. I have heard him calling out to me to simplify. Get rid of the fluff. This is what really matters. These people are my main responsibility. They are my joy. Am I doing it well? Am I living without regret in regards to them? Am I walking faithfully with the responsibilities He is giving me? (read more)

Monday Motivation

Often in the past, Lord, I have come to thee with a heavy heart and burdened life. And thou hast answered my prayers and graciously lifted the burden from me. Yet with strange perversion, I still refuse to leave my burdens with thee. Always I gather them up- those heavy bundles of fears and anxieties- and shoulder them again. -Peter Marshall

laughing

there is nothing more pleasant to this mother’s ear than the sound of my kids laughing together.  it really stops time for me.  when it happens, nothing I am doing matters nor anything someone else is saying.  it’s like my ears have a radar for it.  i am drawn to it.

as a family, we try to foster their relationships with one another as much as possible.  my husband is really great about wrestling with the boys and making them team up against him to be able to take him down.  they learn that they need one another to accomplish their goal.  and they love it!  and when little sister is upset, they are both wonderful to jump in to help her be happy again.  it’s really precious.  i don’t take it lightly that they can work together.  i know that it is something that we have to work on, continually through life.