How I Overcame Fear as a Mom

Our unknowns are known by God, and the very moments we think are scary are opportunities for growing our faith.

When he recommended abortion, I finally understood. That choice is for when the fear is suffocating. Sometimes scared moms want an easier way.

Leaving heaven and coming to earth was part of God’s plan for Jesus—and all of humanity—all along.

Conflict with your spouse is inevitable for all couples. Whoever got the idea into our heads that “marriage should be easy” probably wasn’t married.

Then I asked my wife a question that would change the nature of our relationship forever. I needed her to be more than someone who I did fun things with.

We’d been sufficiently warned. We were working against all the odds to stay together: divorced homes. Demanding careers. And now, a chronically-ill child. 

You want to find joy and delight in your marriage. But you’ll never be able to accomplish this alone in the four walls of your home together.

Many blended family weddings incorporate a ceremony called “blending of the sands.” But in reality it does not mean they have obtained “familyness.”

In your marriage, will you be the gardener or the consumer?

Rejection in blended families hurts and is discouraging. What is needed is the resolve to keep going and a few helpful tools.

What started as an online affair devastated their marriage. Could they find renewal after infidelity?

As bad as your situation might be, it is not beyond God’s power to fix.

A new job. Losing a baby. A new house. Or a spouse’s confession. We can’t see what the new year may bring, but we can trust God to write our story.

We’re in the practice of resolutions. These prayers for the New Year will move us toward spiritual renewal too.

My wife of 10 years told me she didn’t love me anymore. I would have said our marriage was a 10 out of 10. How was I so blind to the deadness of her heart?

In only a few short months, we had gone from gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes to glaring at each other with anger and disgust, each wondering – and not only to ourselves – if we had married the wrong person.

Christmas is for the broken, the lonely and forgotten, and the misfits.

As much as we hope we’ll become idyllic people during this idyllic season, our struggles refuse to take a holiday.