Returning to our Identity as Mothers: We Will Nurture The kids are up. It’s time to make breakfast. The white jackets and unhappy faces worn by the women in Congress last night haunt me. They stood up and applauded for themselves when the President acknowledged how many women in this nation are working these days – and how many stand in Congress. But they […] Read More Beginning with Thanks and Praise This week on Jen’s Journal, I’d like to welcome my longtime friend and sister Megan Carter to the writing chair. Megan and I have shared hundreds of prayer calls across the phone lines over the years, supporting one another’s families and walks with God. Megan is a prolific writer, a genuine friend, and a dedicated […] Read More When prayer is your greatest weapon Some people just know how to wage war. “My strategy is going to be prayer,” Trudi leans over the desk and says to me. The lines on either side of her temples parenthesize deep wells of wisdom. Without thought, she removes her scarf, folding it to the side as my eyes land on the fresh incision […] Read More Getting What We Want vs. Knowing What We Need Sometimes we get what we want. Other times, we get what we need, and we may not always like it. But if we call ourselves believers, we must also believe our Heavenly Father knows what is best for us. I’ve been reading John 15 lately. I first fell in love with that passage when I […] Read More Greater Worth Than Gold (when your faith is being tested, read this.) The other day the Cowboy texted me a verse: In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith — more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire — may be found to result […] Read More |