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The Beauty of Rest in Our Motherhood
It shouldn’t be like this, you know? This continuous feeling of being steamrolled by our own motherhood. Sheer exhaustion. Day in. And...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
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God's Sweet, Amazing Grace
Five cups of hot chocolate and a Netflix Christmas movie. That's how Friday night ended. That's not how, however, how Friday night...
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Nov 17, 20212 min read
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A Mother and Her Son: God's Greatest Love Story
I never understood... I never understood why she called him so much. I never understood why she still wanted to visit him so often, even...
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Oct 8, 20211 min read
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The Gift of the Wild Child
The gift of the wild child. Not everyone receives the gift of the wild child, but when you do, you'll know--for she is nothing less...
easpenner
Oct 6, 20211 min read
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Our Children Always Deserve Our Grace
This was the scene last night of a mighty, mighty battle… …a little boy taking on the world with his strong will and terrible threes… …a...
easpenner
Aug 26, 20213 min read
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A Mama Never Stops Giving Pep-Talks
There’s never an end to the amount of pep talks a mama gives to her children. Never an end to her questioning of whether she said...
easpenner
Aug 22, 20211 min read
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Our children needs us now, more than ever before...
If ever there was a picture to encapsulate the emotions of our children this past year...this is it. I took this photo a few days before...
easpenner
Aug 20, 20212 min read
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A Mama Tries So Hard Not to Blink...
A mama tries so hard not to blink. A mama tries so hard not to blink, because she knows just exactly what that blink means... …just a...
easpenner
Aug 18, 20211 min read
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A Mama's Heart is Always With Her Children
Every time a mama watches her child walk away, she feels a piece of her heart walk away too; and wherever a mama's babies go, a piece of...
easpenner
Aug 8, 20212 min read
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A Mama Just Needs a Minute...
A mama stays up late to set it all down... Ask just about any mama, and she’ll tell you—even if she falls asleep sitting up on the...
easpenner
Aug 6, 20212 min read
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They'll always remember a mama who digs into life with them...
"I think they'd really like it if you got into the lake with them today," my husband whispered. I knew he was right. But, I had become a...
easpenner
Aug 5, 20212 min read
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Our girls need us now more than ever...
Our girls need us. Our girls need us now more than ever before. Satan has found ways to reach our girls in ways we could never imagine....
easpenner
Aug 1, 20213 min read
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The Worthy Ministry of Stay-at-Home Mamas
"When did being 'just' a stay-at-home mom become not enough?" I can’t remember the exact context of the conversation. But his words...
easpenner
Jun 23, 20213 min read
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A Mother's Love will Forever Stop Me in My Tracks...
It stops me in my tracks every single time... The little scrunched up knees. The little busy toes, finally resting The mesmerizing,...
easpenner
Jun 20, 20211 min read
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She's worth the bowl of mac and cheese...
She's worth the bowl of mac-and-cheese. That's what he taught me last night. It was already past bedtime, and we had chosen to grill out...
easpenner
Jun 4, 20212 min read
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Love Beyond-Extraordinary
I didn’t get to sleep in. My little five-AM wake-up call doesn’t have a snooze button. I didn’t have a day without arguing or tears....
easpenner
May 10, 20212 min read
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Sweet Mama, You Are Never Alone
Last night was one of those nights. The kind of night, up with the baby. Then losing myself in mindless Facebook scrolling. Feeling worse...
easpenner
May 4, 20214 min read
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God's Mighty Little Girl
There is this little girl. A little girl God designed to be so incredibly one-of-a-kind that the world would never fit her into its mold....
easpenner
Apr 26, 20211 min read
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A Mother Never Stops Battling
There’s simply never an end to how many times a mother lines up to go to battle for her babies. Day in. And day out. Never an end to the...
easpenner
Apr 17, 20211 min read
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Motherhood is Meeting God
Sweet mama, as motherhood is bestowed upon us, one beautiful, unexpected way or another, we unexpectedly find ourselves in the thick of...
easpenner
Apr 11, 20212 min read
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