If you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I have loved serving the MOPS (Mothers of Preschooler's) Ministry of my church as one of the Mentors . I absolutely adore the Moms with their young ones, how they intensely love their children and want to be the best Mom possible for them. I vividly remember those days in my ... read more
MOPS Mentor
Continuing to learn this role called Mother
Happy Belated Mother's Day to my many friends who are Mothers and to everyone who ever had a Mom. I had a sweet Mother's Day with 2 of my daughters enjoying a dinner created by my oldest daughter and enjoyed in her home. I missed seeing my own mother and our middle daughter and grandson on Mother's Day, but I am thankful for cards that were sent ... read more
Oh How Loves Really Is…
Oh How He Loves Us Sign (and a great blog post) can be found at this sweet blog http://www.susieharrisblog.com/2011/10/how-he-loves-us.html Living with our middle daughter and our toddler grandson for a year was both a reminder of my past and a learning experience for me. Many thing reminded me of my days as a young mother especially the sigh of ... read more
A Letter to a MOPS Mom
Mentoring is a call that I feel every Christian woman has been given. Titus 2 gives instructions to women ... "Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be ... read more
The solution for when my thoughts get the best of me…
Last week, I was chatting with a friend that I have not spoken to for a couple of months. We had a good conversation catching up with each other's lives, laughing and sharing easily. Yet, after we hung up, my mind started working overtime wondering if there was something wrong since it had been such a long time since we had communicated. I let my ... read more
No one has the life they expected…
Last week, I gave a MOPS devotions on The Angry Mother. It is a devotion that I have given in the past and one that always evokes a lot of emotions in myself and in others. You can read the content for this devotion on a prior blog post titled The Angry Mother - it is one of my most read blogs. After I shared devotions, the Mom's had a ... read more