Month: April 2014

There is No Perfect Mother!

“There is no perfect way to ‘do’ motherhood correctly. So we can give ourselves permission to be the best mother to our children without comparison to the seemingly perfect neighborhood mother (who does not exist). One of my friends sent me the following email: ‘I will never be the ‘culture perfect’ mom but I’m the mom my …

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40 Days Excerpt

“DAY 32: HE COMPREHENDS MOTHERHOOD   Mark 6:54–56   And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew him . . . And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.   And whithersoever he entered, into …

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What Stephanie Nielson Taught Me

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to speak at the Evanston Regional Hospital Women’s Conference along with Stephanie Nielson as the keynote speaker. I knew of her, but didn’t really know her until we met, and I listened, and I learned. Three things struck me about her that will stay with me. First, she and …

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