by Everyday Welcome | May 24, 2019 | Celebrate Home, Christian Life, Devotional, Love God, Love People
Usually, I write here at Everyday Welcome about pretty things. Today, I’m gonna get into the issue of racism and adoption, because there are some real things that need to be said. I love to encourage women to open your heart and home to know and share...
by Everyday Welcome | Jan 31, 2019 | Christian Life, Devotional, Love God, Love People, Speaking and Ministry
Not long ago when my parents visited, I asked my dad to share his heart in a Facebook Live interview. I wanted other people to hear a little of the story of a man I admire, who humbly admits mistakes and faults and yet presses forward to honor Christ with his life. In...
by Everyday Welcome | Sep 21, 2018 | Devotional, Love God
This morning, my husband had an unexpected day off, and he joined my boys and me at the breakfast table. He read us a post from Paul Tripp’s New Morning Mercies on holiness and hope in Christ, and my table became a place of eye-opening worship. (I...
by Everyday Welcome | Sep 14, 2018 | Christian Life, Devotional, Love God, Love People, Parenting
This morning I sat at my breakfast table, and my potty-training, ginger-colored puppy mercifully slept at my feet. My husband chose to get some morning work done in our room and I let my boys sleep in… and I gained the most amazing hour of quiet – I...
by Everyday Welcome | Aug 16, 2018 | Christian Life, Devotional, Love and Marriage, Love God, Love People, Parenting
“But God, I DID THE RIGHT THINGS!” I sobbed on the floor of my room, alternately angry at mankind and at the God who made us all. Self-righteous in comparing myself to another, and questioning my own failures and even my right to call myself a wife, a...
by Everyday Welcome | May 23, 2018 | Christian Life, Devotional, Love God, Love People
When I shared recently about Unseen Growth on my friend Stephanie’s Read Cook Devour, Jill Redling was inspired to write about hardship and growth. Because I was spoiled not long ago to wander the rows of vines in the stunning Fingerlakes Region of upstate...
