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Tag Archives: Mothering/Grandmothering

Are You Humble Enough to Be Care-Free?

I’m spending the week with the grandkids—doing a lot of Lego, swinging, reading, and a lot of being an appreciative audience… which leaves just a little time for reflecting, and most of those thoughts are on parenting. It occurs to me that one profession bound to aid the disciple of Jesus along the path of […]

March 29, 2013 Humility, Mothering/Grandmothering, Prayer Leave a comment

He makes the bitter things sweet

I had forgotten, or maybe never even noticed…I sat transfixed one morning  this week by words in an old journal, a little book dedicated to recording moments in the life of my last-born child… It was ten years ago this week that she had prayed after me a prayer asking that she might go to […]

March 8, 2013 Growing Pains, Mothering/Grandmothering 2 Comments

A Good Place to be after all…

What mother of us has not felt as Moses surely felt standing before the burning bush…here I am barefoot, standing before you Lord.  You are saying you have a job for me to do?  I am chosen particularly for it…and yet, this job?  Who is sufficient for these things?  I am unqualified, overwhelmed, undone at […]

February 15, 2013 Growing Pains, Homeschooling, Mothering/Grandmothering 2 Comments

God’s Extraordinary Favor

“If you cannot train your children to do as they ought it is far better to lower your standards and enjoy them as they are than to allow your looks of displeasure to become the norm. A kid may grow up to be undisciplined and self-willed, but there is no reason to add to it […]

January 25, 2013 God's approval, Mothering/Grandmothering 4 Comments

Remembering and Restoring…

  I slept in till eleven this morning.  No pitter pat of feet to hasten my waking.  I think I needed the little extra anyway.  The junior Skelton entourage left in the wee hours to make its way home today.  I lent a hand to the pulling on of little socks and shoes, the tucking […]

December 29, 2012 Mothering/Grandmothering 1 Comment

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