lcorcoran

MOPS has been Good to Me!

This week marks my 6 year anniversary of being a Stay-at-Home Mom. I cannot tell you how proud I am of that decision and what joy and peace it has brought to our home and my marriage! However, for the first few years of being at home I definitely missed the adult interaction and creative outlet that a career brings! I really longed to have a group of girlfriends to chat with during the week while my...

Paige

Cherishing the fun, and the crazy

As I was considering what I needed to write about, I overheard this conversation between my daughter (3 years old) and my son (5 years old). Chloe: I like Booty and the Beast. Noah: I don’t like it at all! Chloe: Not even Booty? Noah: I don’t like Booty. It made me snicker, and grin, because I have never heard a guy say they don’t like “Booty” before. All jokes aside, it gave me pause to...

Melanie

* * Love in Marriage * *

Marriage is the ultimate commitment, yet one of the hardest endeavors that many of us encounter in our lives. I have been married, divorced and remarried.  I have had my share of pain and tears, but ultimately through it all, God has seeded himself deeper into every aspect of my heart. In Genesis, God created man in his own image….and then created a woman out of his own flesh, as there was no...

Lori

July 31, 2008 — The Day My Life Changed Forever

This was the day that I heard two words that no one ever wants to hear:  “It’s cancer.”  Wow.  Just the week before, life was normal…at least I thought it was.  I had no idea that I had a cancerous tumor in my body, which could possibly kill me. It started when I went in for a routine, annual exam in mid July 2008 with my OB/GYN.  When my doctor was doing the breast exam, she found a lump in...

Marla

Making your home a “Grace Place”

When Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, He snapped the shackles imposed by every graceless religious system. And because our God is a God of forgiveness and grace, we can be moms of grace. In order to bless our kids and model Christlikeness to them, we can cultivate a grace-based atmosphere in our homes. We can offer grace-based consequences in the place of harsh condemnation. The Pharisees,...