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What is Spiritual Seed?
Piles of white blanketed the unfurling green of the season--summer and winter clashing in a late Rocky Mountain dance. Protecting my one fledgling tomato plant, I ushered it indoors and set it on the counter. With temperatures near freezing, I watched over a series of...
Top Ten Signs That You’re the Mother of a Teenage Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e70q3p4DTjk#t=32s 10. You automatically answer phone calls with the words, "I expected to hear from you half an hour ago." 9. You can wrap a sprained ankle better than an athletic...
Five Things Parenting Taught Me About Real Love-Day 5: Running on Empty
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've...
5 Things Parenting Has Taught Me About Real Love–Day 4 Sharing My Faith
Watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Deut. 4:9 One night--that night--changed my life forever. From the...
Five Things Parenting Taught Me About Real Love-Day 3 The Navy Seal Inside of Me
What tigress is there that does not purr over her young ones, and fawn upon them in tenderness? --Saint Augustine Trying desperately to hide the I-have-a-colicky-baby circles beneath my eyes, I applied the third layer of Cover Girl magic. Not bad for three hours of...
Five Things Parenting Taught Me About Real Love-Day 2: Faithfulness
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. -Kate Samperi "I hate you and can't wait to move out! You're horrible parents." The...
Prostitutes, Prodigals, and Perpetrators
A social outcast, Mary Magdalene was the bad girl of Galilee. Women warned their sons about that woman and respectable men turned away in embarrassment at her knowing smile. Mary was hopeless. Rejected. Irredeemable. A beloved son rejected his father and his God...
