Million Praying Moms Blog

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I heard the front door slam and my heart dropped, feeling beyond helpless, I could see our oldest son walking out into the vast acres of open land just beyond our property. We don't slam doors in our home,...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  We know that laws govern our natural world, the laws of gravity, relativity, and inertia, to name a few. Sometimes they work in your favor, like when gravity allows you to go for a walk without floating out into the atmosphere. Other...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Recently, when one of our sons was home on break from college, he hung around after family devotions. "Mom, Dad," he said, "don't ever stop doing that. Don't ever stop reading the Bible to my siblings." He...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  The warmth of the sun after days of rain beckoned us to the outdoors and we had to follow the siren call. We had great hopes of traipsing through orchards to pick our favorite apples, but our plans were...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  While doing some research on my backyard grapevine, which surprises me every year by surviving another northern Canadian winter, I stumbled across the word terroir. Terroir is used by wine tasters to describe how the soil in which a...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  While doing some research on my backyard grapevine, which surprises me every year by surviving another northern Canadian winter, I stumbled across the word terroir. Terroir is used by wine tasters to describe how the soil in which a...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Is your child struggling with being diligent? Maybe in school? Maybe in another area that feels harder for them than their peers? School is hard. Learning is hard. Sports are hard. Some of us struggle more...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Strength is easy to love. It doesn't take convincing to be awed by the power of the ocean, the forces of nature in a storm. We wonder at professional athletes with extreme physical prowess and cheer wildly at the growing strength of...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Everything felt overwhelming in our new town and new school. Unfamiliar faces all day, a school building I didn't know my way around and no one I could call my friend, all made me desperately homesick. At...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Be honest, mom. How many times since you brought those blue or pink bundles home from the hospital have you wanted to quit trying? Maybe it's something much more serious than crafting that makes you...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Through my car window, I saw him slouching against the pizza parlor wall. His clothes were tattered and dirty. Beside him stuffed into a grocery sack was what appeared to be all of his belongings. Moved with compassion, I ordered an...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  When our girls were young, I often wondered whether the small tasks of mothering meant anything. I had moved from a successful news career to a life as a farmwife and stay-at-home mom. Life was a series of nighttime wake-ups,...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  There's something about the written word, isn't there? Something about being able to hold a slip of paper or a card with someone's handwriting, with the words they've thought about and inscribed just for...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  How often do we stand before our little ones and children admitting our weaknesses and asking for God's help. I'll be honest, I'd rather hide the hard stuff from my kids. I want to protect them. I want...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY When my kids were very little and I caught them doing something they had been told not to, I would kneel down beside them and say, "You can't obey on your own. You need Jesus' help to do it. Ask him to help you obey." I took this...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  As my kids approached the preteen years, I thought hard was coming to a close. I can hear you experienced teen moms, I can hear you experience teen moms laughing from here. After over a decade of...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  For the past few months, my children and I have been working through the names of God in our personal Bible time. When we came to shepherd, I asked my children what they thought a shepherd does for...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Today's passage tells us that when we rush to anger, we are exalting foolishness. You know what it looks like. You've got a busy day planned, but if everything goes right, you can get it done. Your...