“For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.” Psalm 27:5 I’ve known it all my life – God is our refuge. But for some reason yesterday this verse struck me differently. It [...]

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Tags: faith, God, promise, refuge, trust

I can’t possibly be the only mother who sometimes feels as if she is not serving the Lord the way she wishes to. We are so busy – washing dishes and laundry and dirty little hands and faces, picking up toys, drying tears, teaching, listening, helping – that we have very little time left for [...]

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Tags: joy, little things, motherhood, service

My mind has been in overdrive the last few weeks – I have trouble getting it to slow down enough to really ‘smell the roses’, or to enjoy the moment, the now. It feels like a cascading pile of to-do’s that is increased every 10 seconds and is threatening to slide chaotically off my mental [...]

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