I’ve raised kids long enough to know that there is no formula for turning out great ones. But I’ve also raised them long enough to know that “a child left …

“I’m back from the Living A Legacy conference. All I can say is WOW. What a great time we had. It was just fantastic….” –Heather If you missed it, you …

My mother has had over three dozen children. She gave birth to two, but giving birth isn’t really what makes one a mother, is it? It’s the hard stuff. The …

Our Living a Legacy conference was a huge success! I am so refreshed, encouraged and inspired by the many women who came and whose hearts are yearning to build homes …

“We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.  Our heart resonates with the idea of enjoying …

“Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” I know this. But in the grind of life, the busyness of the day, I have …

  My friend, Leah, is another “mother in the trenches” with a vision as big as Texas. She has written a profoundly important book for mothers who are struggling with …

We’re reading Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (David Platt) as a family and I’m finding myself more convicted than ever before. Questioning, pondering and trying to see …

A good follow-up, I think, from my recent post that received so much commentary. It’s this that I just cannot get past…that we (as a whole) get literally angry over …

Joseph’s brothers betrayed him because of jealousy and threw him into a pit to die.  Then they decided to sell him as a slave. That wasn’t fair. As a slave, …

“What if your daughter wanted to be an interior designer? Go to school and become a professional? I’m only asking what if. Would you push her to stay at home …

They were too loud and fidgety so we drugged them. They were too “rough” so we softened them. They were too given to leading us so we insulted them. They …

Growing up I was a soloist in church. I was repeatedly reminded by older, well-meaning men and women, that I must “keep singing or I would lose my talent”. I …

I can’t believe it! After almost a year since last April’s beastly tornado, through the love, sweat, sacrifice and devotion of hundreds of people, we spent the first night back …