Embracing Life

• Using Breath Prayers to Calm Anxiety

  

  The breath is central to life in our bodies and unfortunately fear and anxiety can wreak havoc on our breath. When you’re feeling fearful or worried, your heart begins to pound, you take shallow brea...

• 25 Scripture Prayers 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Releasing Worry and Embracing God's Peace

  

  I read a meme once that said that a worried mother can do more research and find more answers than the FBI. And I have to admit, it feels true in my life. I'm sure the FBI do a fabulous job of resear...

• 25 Scriptures to Pray for Your Child's School Year

  

  As the school year approaches, and we find ourselves busy buying supplies and new clothes and doing other tasks to get ready for the new school year, I start to feel a little anxious. Will our kids h...

• Scripture Prayers for Your Family Prayer Calendar

  

  We all know that praying is powerful and that we should be praying for our families. But sometimes, it can feel like we're praying for the same things over and over and we can get discouraged because...

• Releasing Fear and Embracing God

  

  This blog has always been about embracing things in life. But I'm learning you can't fully embrace something if you're clinging closely to something that is not good for you. The next few months we'l...

• Embracing Courage Rather Than Your Comfort Zone

  

  "You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both." -Brene Brown I was so encouraged by the above quote. I printed it out and put it above my desk determine...

• Bibles For Children with Special Needs to Help Them 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...

• 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...

• The Four Things Special Needs Parents Don't Want To Hear

  

  I'm a mama of two boys with over a dozen diagnoses between them. My life can easily be consumed by their needs, their therapy appointments, their diets, etc. My faith has struggled along this journey...

• 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 ...

• What Christian Writers Can Learn From The Greatest Showman

  

  My husband and I went to see The Greatest Showman and I LOVED it. My husband asked me what I liked about it so much and I couldn't put my finger on it. "So many things," was all I could say. I've bee...

• How Journaling Can Help Your Faith and Emotions

  

  When life takes an unexpected turn, or we are stressed and busy, it is easy to go into survival mode and bury our emotions. We keep pressing on, doing the things we know we are supposed to be doing a...

• Serving Your Followers on Social Media as a Christian Writer

  

  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 ...

• Four Supplements to Help Your Child Embrace Health

  

  Disclaimer:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any sort. I am merely a mother who was worried about both of my sons' development and spent hours researching supplements, taking my sons to ...

• Learning to Embrace Life and Trust God When Life is Hard

  

  When I learned I was going to become a mother, the excitement was indescribable. I imagined the things I would do with my child, the play dates, the art projects we could do, the books we’d read, and...

• 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...

• 5 Things I'm Thankful For As A Special Needs Parent

  

  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I just love the opportunity to gather with loved ones and reflect on all the things we are grateful for, realize how blessed we truly are, all while eatin...

• Fun Gifts For Readers and Writers

  

  I'm an avid reader and I do enjoy writing. And as much as I am touched by receiving a new writing journal with a fancy pen, I've stumbled across many an item on Amazon that strikes my reading/writing...

• 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...

• Hair Clips and Hair Care Products That Will Rock Your World (and your hair!)

  

  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 ...

• 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...

• 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. ...

• 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...