Tag: raising teens and grey hair
Finding the Joy Breaks sounds hard at times especially when life seems out of control and always busy. It’s at these times when even a sunset seen on the way home can be joyful. Don’t forget that joy doesn’t have to be just in the big things.
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Teenagers, they are like cats. One wrong move and they either run and hide for the rest of the day or take your head off, and you never really know which way it will go. If they are comfortable with you, you will eventually find out.
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A whole new world of adventures, of sorrows, of times when your faith will be tested. By embracing what will come you will be tested and growth will come. This growth will bring strength, it will test, but it will be worth it.
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Category: Encouraging People, Helping PetsTags: A whole new year, Bible reading, faith like a mustard seed, faith strength, family first, family fun, family life, family strength, family time, goals, move mountains, preteens are special too, raising teens and grey hair, snow day, snow makes it better, snow perspective, step out in faith, teenagers are worth it, well done good and faithful servent
Sometimes even the little things seem to get under our skin and can threaten to ruin our day. We have a choice though: Change our thoughts about it and move forward, or let it rule our thoughts and ruin our day. The choice is ours.
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Category: Encouraging People, Helping PetsTags: A Christmas Story, advent calendar, chose wisely, Christmas joys, joy is strength, loud family, pray about it, quiet strength, raise them in the way they should go, raising kids, raising teens and grey hair, raising well rounded kids, Reading the Christmas story, teenage girls are an enigma, will it ruin your day?, wise momma
Will we ever learn from our mistakes or from the experiences we have had? Ask a dog chasing a cat? When a dog has a repeat offense with the skunk spray smell, the answer would be no. Maturity and experiences for the rest of us gives us hope
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It’s Fair Time! We are off to the fair. We will ride the rides, eat the food and enjoy being together. What is it about the fair? It’s about bringing together the community, and in this day and age, that is needed more than anything
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Joy Comes even when you feel like you have lost it. The world, life, family, work, negative words can all steal joy, but only for a little bit. Joy comes in the moments, in the self worth, in the knowledge of who you are in Christ
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Girls Day Out. It opens up the world of my kids. Its a way to see my kid’s world though their eyes. These days won’t always be there, so I am going to enjoy them while I can.
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The Act of Figuring it Out. I won’t say I am even close to figuring anything out but I am trying my best. There are times in which I wish I didn’t have so many different personalities around me but then I realized I wouldn’t want it any other way.
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Being Mary in a Martha World, worry over worship is what Martha did, and when she got overwhelmed she pleaded to have Jesus make her sister Mary help her. Mary chose worship over worry and making where she was at the right place to be. Worshiping
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Category: Encouraging PeopleTags: be a Jesus scholor, be humble, be there for them, being Mary in a Martha world, family strength, guide them, love your family pray for them, newbie teenage momma, overwhelmed is not fun, raising kids, raising teens and grey hair, sitting at His feet, teenagers are worth it, trusting God, worship over worry
Living Joyfully 