As we prepare our hearts for Good Friday and Easter, I want to reshare a blog post from last year. It was based on the Moms Take Ten episode 57, “Kneeling with Jesus in the Garden.” You can listen here: https://sites.libsyn.com/403493/revisiting-jesus-in-the-garden I have been reflecting on the hours leading up to Jesus’ arrest. In theContinue reading “Revisiting Jesus in the Garden”
Category Archives: Motherhood
Love Day–From the Mouths of Littles
This post is from Moms Take Ten episode 99 which you can listen to wherever you listen to podcasts or at https://sites.libsyn.com/403493/love-day-from-the-mouths-of-littles Note: The podcast episode includes interviews with several children which are not transcribed here. I definitely recommend you listen to the episode! My commentary is below. The question, “what is love?” is notContinue reading “Love Day–From the Mouths of Littles”
Reflecting God’s Homemaking Heart
The very act of homemaking, investing in our homes, is a reflection of the heart of God himself. We are imaging him to our family and those around us.
Drawing Your Dysregulated Child Close
As I have been doing the hard work of dealing with my baggage and becoming a safe and loving person for my children, I am slowly (emphasis on slowly) learning to draw my children close in times of misbehavior and dysregulation rather than push them away.
Kneeling with Jesus in the Garden
I have been reflecting on the hours leading up to Jesus’ arrest. In the dark of night, he knelt before God, pleading for a different way, a new plan of redemption. It is perhaps the most powerful example to all of us of the humanity and humility of Christ.
Hemmed in by God
A word of encouragement for moms from Psalm 139. God has hemmed us into the present and into his presence. Let us find our rest, our strength and our daily grace right where he has us.
We Need Each Other
Let’s work on building that community. Let us recognize the importance and value of having others in our lives who can build us up, and who we can build up in return, and then let us be willing to put in the effort required to make that happen.
Living in the And
Our lives are filled with, lived in, the “and”. Some of those we like. Sometimes though, our “ands” feel oppositional, as though they should not go together, yet in our lives they do. Grief AND joy. Hurt AND healing. Regret AND hope. We struggle to acknowledge both in our lives. It can be confusing. It can cause tension. Yet, both must be acknowledged to truly live.
I Am Not Ashamed Of My Child
My son was not someone to be ashamed of. He was someone to be loved, encouraged and celebrated.
Getting Out of the Crazy Cycle
I recognized early on that I was screwing things up. But instead of stopping or correcting myself, I just kept going in a glorious display of poor parenting leading us straight onto the crazy cycle.
Lyssa Stoyko 