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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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Motherhood is Too Beautiful Even for Satan
I want to let you in on a little secret, sweet mamas. Satan will never stop trying. He will never, ever stop trying to destroy your...
easpenner
Oct 11, 20213 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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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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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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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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Motherhood is Humbling Yourself in God's Name
Within 28 hours of this photo being taken... I watched my baby have an asthma attack. I walked into the ER just before 2:00 AM. I caught...
easpenner
Jun 26, 20212 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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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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Dear Heavenly Father, Stay with Me
The sun has yet to rise, Lord. Quiet is this house. The peaceful, thoughtful kind. The only sounds heard are my whispers to you. Already...
easpenner
Mar 26, 20212 min read
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The Most Humbling Moment of Motherhood
I never knew when I took this photo. I never knew. How could I have? At only eight years old. I am not really sure why I even took the...
easpenner
Nov 28, 20203 min read
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By the Goodness of God
"...although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want..."...
easpenner
Nov 25, 20203 min read
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A Mother's Forever-Flexible Love
Chewy Blanket. That's what she calls it. Edition two. Chewy #1? It was a hand-me-down from one of her older sisters, who enjoyed a few...
easpenner
Sep 28, 20203 min read
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You are not invisible, sweet mama.
It's those ultra-humbling moments, precious mamas. The behind-the-scenes ones. Seen by no eyes other than yours and God's. The ones you...
easpenner
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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The Beauty in a Baby Doll: "It's okay."
“But I don’t want to grow up!” she sobbed through her tears. “I don’t want to get bigger and older. I just want to stay my age!” So many...
easpenner
Sep 19, 20202 min read
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Thank you God, for tomorrow.
Thank you for tomorrow," her gentle four-year-old voice whispered into my ear, as I kissed her good-night. "Tomorrow, already, sweet...
easpenner
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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