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Jennifer McBride | January 16, 2014
Excellent reminders from Mrs. Gore’s Diary: Motherhood is HARD, yes, but it doesn’t have to be dreary and droopy. Chin up, buttercup. Shoulders back. Turn that frown upside down. Swallow those sorrowful sighs. Choose joy, because even on the hardest days, it is still exactly that: a choice. Laugh at today and all the days to [...]
Jennifer McBride | January 15, 2014
Don’t miss this powerful post from Bambi at In the Nursery of the Nation: Motherhood is work many times. But work isn’t some terrible Christian duty we can’t enjoy. It is our duty but when we empty ourselves for others, the Lord fills us up…with replenishments of strength, joy, creativity and more. That way we have it to give all over again…to which [...]
Jennifer McBride | November 17, 2013
A powerful post on motherhood from Rachel Jankovic at Femina: The strongest women in our world today are those who are as a group feeling the weakest. It certainly doesn’t feel like a blow for the kingdom to spend another nine months in a brain fog. It doesn’t feel like we are fighting for the [...]
Jennifer McBride | October 24, 2011
A convicting read over at Raising Homemakers: What is my own attitude telling them that I really believe at this moment? That my Jesus isn’t big enough to calm the storm in my own heart, to empower me with self-control to hold my tongue and watch my temper? That being interrupted to have to train and discipline [...]
Jennifer McBride | October 21, 2011
“As He is, so are we also in this world.” You must take the manger, or you shall never take the throne; you must have the cross, or you shall never wear the crown; you must be despised and rejected, or you shall never be accepted and crowned; you must wade through the mire, or [...]
Jennifer McBride | October 10, 2011
Excellent insight from Rachel Jankovic: The good news is, you don’t need to have been through some elite mother’s training camp to apply the gospel in your life. You need to believe. Trust God, give thanks. Laugh. Believe — and that will feed your children. Rest in God, and your children will learn to. Extend [...]
Jennifer McBride | July 14, 2011
A must read. This beautful and powerful post from Rachel Jankovic reminds us that in dying, we truly live: But a Christian should have a different paradigm. We should run to to the cross. To death. So lay down your hopes. Lay down your future. Lay down your petty annoyances. Lay down your desire to be [...]
Jennifer McBride | July 14, 2011
From Jess at Making Home, a wonderful reminder of the servanthood of our Saviour and the example He set for us: A King had sent His Son to save the peasants, and not only that– that Son took “the form of a servant”. Christ– the Messiah, the hoped-for King– took the role of a humble [...]
Jennifer McBride | March 21, 2011
This is a wonderfully inspiring testimony from a woman who gave up the temporary prestige of a career for the noble and eternal work of a wife and mother: This is not a story that the feminists want you to hear. Despite their appeals for a women’s choice, the idea that and “intelligent, educated, woman” would [...]
Jennifer McBride | March 16, 2011
Self sacrifice does not come easily to our naturally selfish natures and is not encouraged in our “Me-First ” culture. It is, however, a virtue and discipline that must be learned and practiced – and the sooner the better. To be like Christ we must die to self, and there we find true joy. Here are some [...]
