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Guest Post By: Joy A Williams Childhood memories of my dad are filled with the smell of smoke and his determination. As a first responder, he and his fellow firefighters fought to save lives and property. However, learning about my father’s everyday heroics helped me...

Guest Post By: Kelly A. Foster Have you ever been blown away by the love of God as He reveals Himself as Father? I distinctly remember the exact moment everything I thought I knew about God had changed. I began reading the book of Ezekiel as a challenge. As I read...

Guest Post By: Melanie Norris We had been praying for her complete healing. We were standing on God’s word. We had put all hope in Him. Yet, God, in His sovereignty did not answer our prayers in the way we expected. We wanted to see her heart miraculously healed on...

Guest Post By: Kirstyn Mayden “Mommy, will you play with me?” My three-year-old daughter asks me this question multiple times a day. It doesn’t matter if she has had a full day at preschool, or we just came back in from playing outside. Playing is her number one...

Periodically, Google Photos will send a notification to my phone. When I click the icon, I see images and videos from one year ago, three years ago, and five years ago. Most of the photographs I take are of my children, so their little faces pop up. It's always...

My children video chat with their grandparents almost every day. They love talking with GG and Paw Paw just as much as GG and Paw Paw relish talking with their precious grandbabies. On several occasions, I’ve had to remind my girls to pause the videos playing on their...

Fall has come, and we are shifting to the days getting shorter and the weather getting colder. As the season changes, often moods change, particularly as we near Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. While the holiday season tends to be a joyful time for...

Photo by Diana Simumpande on Unsplash I panicked. I did, y’all. I was half asleep when I looked at my phone and saw that one of my close friends messaged me that someone had duplicated one of my social media accounts. Shortly after, a second friend sent...

Every morning I gingerly enter my girls' rooms to wake them for school. Before the sun has even peeked through the windows, I gently shake my daughters and tell them to "rise and shine." You see, it is time to get up, get ready, face a brand-new day, and grace the...

“But Mom, she didn’t eat all of her food.” “Mom, her toy is bigger than mine.” “Why does she get to do that, but I can’t?” “But she is not cleaning up.”  Have any of the other parents out there heard these questions or phrases, or is it just me? I see you nodding...