Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read “So how is it being the mom of three kids?” My cousin asked me the question as we sat in the sunshine outside of Starbucks. She’d just spent a year as a nanny to four. And she wanted to know my secret. Because she thought I had motherhood all figured out. “Most days, I feel…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by K.J. Tanner Friends of mine prayed for boys. They asked and begged and after twenty weeks, they lay prone on a table, abdomen gooey as tears of joy streamed down their faces. “It’s a boy!” the technician declared joyously. I cried not tears of joy, but one small tear of sadness. It’s not that…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Kathryn Ritchie Years ago, when my husband and I were engaged, we laughed about naming our first child Theophilus (from Luke 1:3 and Acts 1:1). We figured the weightiness of that name would destine him to great things! That is, if he could remember it and how to pronounce it! Can’t you just picture…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” -C.S. Lewis You are not born a bibliophile, you become one–but usually at a very young age. The members of the writing team here at Kindred Grace can all attest to the fact that the picture…
Trina Holden 2 Minute Read I just finished a book I started last October. From the outset, I knew this book (A Million Little Ways by Emily Freeman) was one I’d be reading slowly, to savor and internalize. For once I didn’t feel guilty that it took me over four months to read 200 pages. In fact, it felt so…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read “I’m not an artist.” I’ve said that so many times. Usually I’m referring to my lack of drawing and painting abilities, and that statement does have some basis in fact. But if you pressed me – “What about writing? What about restoring furniture? Decorating? What about gardening?” I would either brush it off as “not…
Chantel 2 Minute Read When I was a little girl, the highlight of my day was when my dad would come to tuck us in. Just before the lights were turned off for the night, I’d always plead for just one story from when he was a boy. More often than not, he was happy to oblige. And I…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “You want to know the secret to staying happily married?” grinned the wizened, white-haired man. “What’s that?” I asked with a laugh. This was going to be a good one, knowing him. “A few fingers in the armpits every so often,” he stated, with a twinkle in his eye. I laughed. There’s been more than…
Jessica Telian 4 Minute Read I don’t know about you, but I thrive on following rules. This isn’t always the best thing, and it’s something that God has been working on in me for quite a few years. Back in my in-school years though, it was out full-force. I loved it when an assignment told me exactly what to do….
Emily C. Gardner 4 Minute Read My introduction to the Bible began with flannel graphs in Sunday school and bedtime stories read by my mom out of an illustrated children’s Bible. I began to memorize individual verses while in the AWANA program and learned about different Bible characters at church and at home. I got my own Bible with papery thin…
Chantel 2 Minute Read I believe that gratitude can change your life. When I was ten years old, I picked up a little notebook and began a habit that has affected my life ever since. I called it my joy journal. In it I chronicled the bits and pieces of my ordinary days that made me smile, and reminded…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read When we spend more time search for assurance than we do acting out of belief, we are chasing God. –Angie Smith in Chasing God If pinning organizational ideas on Pinterest was all that is required, my house would be perfectly organized. If outlining a weekly to-do list that included dusting and cleaning the bathroom was…
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