From Friday:
1. In “When the Horrific Happens”, Michele Cushatt reflects back on the Aurora theater shootings five months ago and gives gracious guidance for us now.
2. Max Lucado’s “A Christmas Prayer” is a moving reminder of the One and only Answer to all of our pleas and questions.
3. Heather Riggleman offers advice for how to talk to your child about the shooting and tools to pray over your child in “How to Help Her Kids in the Wake of the CT Shooting”.
From earlier in the week:
4. I needed to read Ocieanna Fleiss’ “Longing to Be Published--God's Passion or Idolatry?” and not just in regards to being published. In so many areas of my life, it’s far too easy for me to slip into focusing on promoting my own agenda rather than bringing glory to God through obedience.
5. From Sarah Mae’s “When the Badness of the Day Gets Flung onto Your Kids”: I rubbed her head and I said, “I hate being yelled at. I did to you what I hate. I’m so sorry.” We held each other for a long while, and then we began again.
6. Kristen of We Are That Family reflects on watching daughters grow into women in “No One Told Me It Would Be This Hard.”
7. From Emily Wierenga’s “A Broken Hallelujah”: This mother of the boys whom we’ve taken in. These boys ages 2 and 4, in addition to our own, ages 1 and 3, and we feel used. The contract she signed, she’s done nothing, except party and do drugs and there hasn’t been a day I haven’t wanted to quit. But I haven’t, for her, for Jesus, but now I’m quitting. But you won’t let me and why should I buy her flowers?
8. I found Jamie Todd Rubin’s “Going Paperless: My Mobile Paperless Office” immensely practical. I’m not suggesting that any of us go out and buy all the equipment (especially after my Wednesday post “Stop Buying to Become”!) I just appreciate the Melancholy / Analytic explanations for each item. And since I am trying to become more paper-free, I will likely try -- or at least adapt -- some of this.
9. Poppy Smith’s guest blog “What Do You and Your Husband Have in Common?” over at at Sheila Wray Gregoire’s To Love Honor and Vacuum made me think she was writing about me: The advertisement for a marriage seminar caught my eye. It asked the question, “What do you and your husband have in common?” An anonymous woman had scrawled across it in red ink, “We were married on the same day!” I burst out laughing. But early on in my marriage, I probably would have burst into tears.
10. Susan Yates, author of my favorite parenting book ever (And Then I Had Kids), shares 8 practical tips for teaching our kids how to wait in “Don’t Give Them Everything They Want”.
Your Turn:
- What blog posts have you read this week that you especially enjoyed?
- What topics tend to grab your interest?
- Anything else on your heart!
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