Making the Choice To Be a Work at Home Mom – Part 2 of 3

Yesterday we featured “Making the Choice To Be a Work at Home Mom – Part 1 of 3”
Now we are on to Part 2. We’d also love to hear your feedback in the comments below. We know many of you work from home or are considering it.
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By Jill Hart, reprinted with permission from her book [...]

Making the Choice To Be a Work at Home Mom – Part 1 of 3

Those of us who live with chronic illness have a very diverse set of circumstances when it comes to a career as well as parenting. Jill Hart, who lives with a chronic illness, is the founder of the organization Christian Work at Home Moms and is the author of a new book called “So You [...]

More Than a Table for Two: The Difference a Christ-Centered Marriage Makes in a Culture of Fragmented Families – Part 2 of 2

This is continuation of the article from yesterday’s post.
In a sense, they are borrowing an attribute that belongs to a God they don’t know and exercising a representation of a spiritual truth they don’t believe. To be fair, there are people with good marriages who have detached the basic virtues that [...]

More Than a Table for Two: The Difference a Christ-Centered Marriage Makes in a Culture of Fragmented Families

By Stephanie Duncan
With thirty-six days standing in between us and our vows, Zach and I are still trying to track down late RSVPs and figure out the difference between white, ivory, and champagne. But even with so many pressing details, we know that these are fringe matters compared to glory we will represent when [...]

A Kid Like Any Other Kid – Mom’s Perspective on Child with Down’s Syndrome

By Daniel J. Vance
Often, people sharing their story for this column prefer using a pseudonym in order to protect their child’s identity. Such was the case recently with 37-year-old “Sharon,” the birth mother of 12-year-old “John,” who was born with Down syndrome.
Down syndrome is caused by an embryo cell division that creates an extra No. [...]

When Your Wife is Chronically Ill

My wife, Jenny, has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for the last six years, although she has probably lived with the condition for twenty years. We have two children, ages 8 and 4 years old. Yes! We had a baby through this illness and what a pregnancy!
In the last few years, we planted a church [...]

Waiting: Choosing Calm Over Control

“. . . According to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.” Hippocrates
What type of client, customer or patient are you? When you walk through the waiting room door does the person on the other side flinch, tense, or otherwise prepare for attack? Do you disappoint, discourage, or offer a [...]

Reflections On a Chronically Ill Mom’s Life

Update 5/17/10 -  1AM: I had planned to write a new blog post for the chronicabe.com carnival who has a topic on being a mom with an illness. But life happened!

a swarm of 6000 bees arrived, I called a beekeeper to come and take them away (-$195- ugh!)
husband had jury duty
son began swim lessons
the dishwasher [...]

Video – “Mom Sense” Will Make You Smile

If you’ve not yet watched Christian Comedian, Anita Renfroe’s, MomSense video, consider this a small gift to yourself for Mother’s Day.

Recognizing the Hidden Benefits of Suffering

SUFFERING: To undergo or feel pain or distress; to sustain injury or loss.
Webster’s dictionary can put it down into words, but many of us have to feel it. Suffering comes into your home like a long lost relative and stays much longer than you would like.
I have had six major surgeries, including quadruple by-pass. [...]

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