Do you feel as if you’re spinning your wheels in life? Does it feel as if you’re working too hard and not getting anywhere? Or maybe you have a hard time getting started, and you’re not making the kind of progress you want. This can be progress with your kids, homeschooling, work, following your dreams,… [Continue Reading]
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Finding the Balance Between Yes & No
How to Say “No” (And 8 Things to Say “Yes” To) A few Sundays ago, I had a dilemma. We were a few minutes late for church, and we took a seat behind the children. In our church, pre-K through sixth-grade kids sit in the sanctuary during worship and then are released after worship to… [Continue Reading]
Never Too Busy for Jesus
“Reverence for God adds hours to each day.” Proverbs 10:27 (TLB) At this moment, I’m preparing for a conference in South Africa, trying to stay on top of my writing, and I have TEN children, all in various stages of life. If I were to have an excuse not to take time to be with Jesus, this would… [Continue Reading]
4 Ways to Make Time for What Really Matters
You’re always on the go. Scrambling to find enough minutes in the day for everything you need to accomplish. When you’re feeling maxed out, it’s hard to live intentionally and set aside time for God. How do you make time for what matters most? I remember one Sunday I had a dilemma that taught me the importance… [Continue Reading]
4 Things to Cut from Your Schedule {Before School Starts}
Does your schedule seem too full? Are you wondering how you’re going to survive the upcoming school year? That’s me. With seven school-aged kids I’m trying to figure out what we can add. I’m also re-evaluating what needs to be cut. God has given each of us 24 hours, and if things are too crazy-busy,… [Continue Reading]
The B-Word | All About Balance
When it comes to writing at home, serving in our church and community, and loving our family, we all strive for the same thing: balance. We believe it’s out there, and if we discover the right formula we’ll find it. And, when we find it, there we will have peace. As a wife, mom of… [Continue Reading]
4 Thoughts that Will Transform Your Schedule
4 Thoughts that Will Transform Your Schedule I wrote the book Balanced, yet I love how God is able to use my own words to help and inspire myself! As I’ve written blogs based on the book, it’s given me a chance to rethink some of the concepts. Every season of life is different, and… [Continue Reading]
How to Find Time to Clean in the Random Moments of Your Day
How to Find Time to Clean in the Random Moments of Your Day I don’t have hours a day to clean . . . although since I have a college-aged son, a husband, a grandma, and three kids six-years-old and under at home, I wish I did! Take advantage of the random moments in… [Continue Reading]
5 Questions that Can Change Your Schedule … and Your Life
5 Questions that Can Change Your Schedule … and Your Life I used to be the worst at saying no. If someone needed help at church, or a babysitter, or a work-project to get done, I was the person whom they could count on. I prided myself for being able to accomplish more than anyone… [Continue Reading]
Is It Time For A Clean Sweep?
Is It Time For a Clean Sweep? I love the television show Clean Sweep. In the show the contents of a whole room are placed into a person’s driveway, and their things are sorted into piles: Keep, Maybe Keep, and Toss. One of the aspects I love about the show is the way junk is… [Continue Reading]
Simplifying Christmas | 9 Ways to Manage Your Schedule This Holiday by Cara Putman
Do you break out in hives just thinking about the craziness and chaos that comes with Christmas? It doesn’t have to be that way. Inspirational authors Cara Putman, Sarah Sundin, and Tricia Goyer share about Christmas’ past in their new novella collection Where Treetops Glisten. Their three stories “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,”… [Continue Reading]