By Stefanie Boyles
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
Before the start of a new year, I take some time to reflect on the previous year. What were highlights from each month? How do I feel each area of my life is doing, like my relationships and personal health and spiritual growth? What lessons have I learned?…
By Catherine Fitzgerald
Originally Published in Be Still Magazine, Issue 13
I went over my usual list of expectations as we sat down at the picnic tables under the park shelter. Play nicely. Stay where I can see you. Don’t leave this area. Expecting everyone to scatter in different directions immediately, I turned toward the moms I was with as my littlest suddenly chimed in, “And look for the kids with their heads down, right mommy?…
By Kristyn Perez
Lamp and Light Leader for The Daily Grace Co.
I was recently talking to a mom of little ones who was feeling guilty that she wasn’t spending more time in the Word. She gets up three to five times a night with her young kids and can’t seem to get out of bed in the mornings before they wake up.…
By Stefanie Boyles
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
During my first pregnancy, I was blissfully ignorant. I was a new nurse in a competitive nurse residency program. I studied cardiac rhythms instead of poring over parenting books. Our immediate friends didn’t have kids, so the topics of our conversations were more often good books and under appreciated hole-in-the-wall restaurants, not the million and one choices involved in parenthood. …
By Melissa Dennis
Originally published in Be Still Magazine, issue 11
I’ve done things in my short life thus far that seemed at one point to be the most significant landmarks—even highlights due to the event’s noteworthiness. Running the Great Wall of China marveling at God’s power and glory, laying my head to rest on a concrete floor in India with a room full of orphans.…
By Stefanie Boyles
Staff Writer for the Daily Grace Co.
What did you want to be when you were a kid?
When I was a young girl, I knew in my heart that my greatest desire was to be a mom.…
By Jana White
Staff Writer for The Daily Grace Co.
I’m writing this post to clear the air among many Christian moms out there. There is a phenomenon among Christian moms that puts two sets of moms on opposite sides and we have chosen to subtly wage war against one another.…
By Rachel Kang
Originally published in Be Still Magazine, Issue 9.
You bring the baby home, snuggle her tight, and wrap her warm. You nestle your nose into her neck, over her forehead, across her cheek. She wiggles and squirms, breathes a faint and innocent sigh, all the while your insides melt and, altogether, you come undone.…