Family – Page 3 – Growing Graceful

by Linda

Because I Will Always Be Their Mother

Mother’s Day is a day that evokes a lot of emotion for me. I grew up down south. I don’t know if it is still the same today, but most of the women would wear a corsage to honor their mother’s. The color had meaning. A red flower meant your mother was living. A white […]

by Linda

When Suffering is a Privilege

My nearly 13 year old daughter came in to do her morning kitchen chore and began telling me how she used to want to live to be really old {“like, over 100”}, but she changed her mind. “Oh?” I asked. Why? Turns out she thinks if she lives long, she might live right into the […]

by Linda

More Power in Prayer, Prerequisite #2 for Effective Prayer

When I was in charge of coordinating the Women’s Events at Camp JIM, I once booked a speaker to share at a retreat on the subject of Forgiving. The speaker had several talks she had prepared for events and she told me, in all the years she had been traveling, I was the first to […]

by Linda

Treasuring These Days, & Our New Family Photo

Hello friend! Family photos are great. You never know what you are going to get back, and there are always these little tell tales that speak so loudly about this season in life, frozen in time. 🙂 Many thanks to Angela out at Camp Jim for taking our family staff photos and sending me this […]

by Linda

Praying for our Children

Proxy~ the authority to represent someone else I was listening to the radio on the way home from town yesterday. The program on the Christian station was asking us, the audience, to share a time when someone of importance in our lives (parent, teacher, pastor, friend) said something that really cut us to the core… […]