Embracing Life
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25 Scriptures to Pray For Your Family
Prayer in and of itself is powerful. When you combine it with Scripture, well, let's just say you should be prepared to see some mighty things happen. It is very important to pray for your family ...
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15 Scriptures to Pray For Our Nation
My heart lately has been burdened by events and attitudes I see unfolding around me in the United States. We aren't united. We are divided by political parties and beliefs. People's rights seem to be...
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When You Find Yourself Asking God "Why?"
When something unexpected happens in our life, or in our world, it's easy for us to ask God why it happened. We want to live the blessed "abundant life" (John 10:10b) that Jesus said He was bringing,...
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15 Scriptures To Pray For Your Child with Special Needs
As a special needs parent we learn to advocate for our children--with insurance companies, with doctors and specialists, with schools, within churches, and within the community. But one of the best w...
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Encouraging Scriptures For When Your Child Has A Speech Delay
My younger son has a speech delay, my older son has apraxia --a neurological speech disorder that requires frequent and intensive speech therapy to learn to speak. He didn't say his first words until...
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20 Scriptures To Pray For Your Purpose
We all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves. We all want to know what our purpose is while we are on earth, hence the reason The Purpose-Driven Life quickly became a bestselling book wi...
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30 Scriptures to Pray For Your Child(ren)
Prayer is powerful and the fact that you want to pray for your children is an awesome thing. No matter the age, ability, and personality of your children, they need our prayers. It is a privilege as ...
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How to Know and Use Your Spiritual Gifts
We give gifts because we want to bless someone. We're excited to see how they will respond to and use a gift we think they will enjoy. Sometimes we can be just as excited about giving someone a gift ...
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20 Scriptures to Pray When You're Feeling Insecure
Insecurity: (noun) Uncertainty or anxiety about oneself. Lack of confidence. Insecurity is a feeling I know all too well. It tells me I'm not good enough. That I'm failing. That I'm not worthy....
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20 Scriptures For Special Needs Parents To Pray
I've found turning to scripture and being reminded of God's character (and that even our favorite Bible heroes had their own struggles in their lives) to be very encouraging in all the challenges tha...
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Bibles That Will Help Your Child with Special Needs Access God's Word
My older son (age 12) has hearing loss, a speech disorder, and a few learning disabilities, and my younger son (age 9) is on the autism spectrum, but I don't want their diagnoses to stop them from le...
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5 Ways to Draw Near to God When He Feels Far Away
You love God with all your heart and soul and mind, and then life happens. Whether it's the busyness of life, or something painful happened in your life, it's not hard to find yourself not connecting...
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Recommended Books for Nurturing the Christian Woman's Heart and Faith
I dunno about you, but I love reading, especially reading books that will nurture my faith and my heart. Yet no matter how much I read, my to-read list always seems to be getting longer and longer. T...
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Essential Oils to Help Your Child with Special Needs
There are so many testimonies of people experiencing positive changes to their health or their children's health after using essential oils that I just had to give it a try for myself and for my two ...
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When God Doesn't Move Your Mountain
I grew up believing in God and experiencing God's blessings. Then when I became a mother, God suddenly felt very far away. Both of my boys, born two years apart, received various diagnoses, that ke...
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When God Tells You To Write A Book
I have dreamed of writing a book for a long time. I thought perhaps I would write a young adult book: as a middle school English teacher, I devour plenty of those, wanting to be able to share my love...
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10 Tips to Help You Grow a Christian Social Media Platform
Social media can feel overwhelming and can also make you feel like you’re spending hours of time trying to understand and grow your social media accounts and not focusing on the thing you want to do ...
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The Four Stages of Writing Through Grief
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Whether we want it to or not, we all will go through hard things in life. Grief will come in some form or another, whether it be the loss of a loved one, the loss of a dream or expectation or relatio...
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20 Scriptures To Pray For Your Writing
A few years ago, after reading Beth Moore's amazing Praying God's Word , I discovered the joy of praying Scripture over various things that were important to me. I love praying scripture for my marri...
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10 Reasons You Will LOVE These Lilla Rose Hair Clips
Lilla Rose is a company that sells hair care products and hair clips and other hair accessories that I absolutely love. My favorite product they create is their flexi clips, a hair clip that bends ar...
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Recommended Books For Christian Writers
They say that writers should be readers first, and why not combine the two? I love reading books that help and encourage me to grow in the business, craft, and calling of writing. Disclosure: Som...
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Hair Clips and Hair Care Products That Will Rock Your World (and your hair!)
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Lilla Rose is a company that sells unique and gorgeous hair accessories that I absolutely love. You already wear your hair up, so why not pamper yourself (and your hair!) with some lovely and unique ...
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Gift Ideas and Essentials for the Essential Oil Fan
I love using essential oils. There's always essential oils I'm wanting to add to my collection, and items I need/want to go with my essential oil use. So I've compiled a list of my favorite essential...
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Embracing Essential Oils for Emotional Health
Essential oils are the oils extracted from plant parts (flowers, bark, leaves, etc) used for aromatic or even medical purposes. Each oil has different benefits for our physical and emotional health. ...