Spiritual encouragement

Encouragement from the Bible while on this parenting journey

  • The only way for growth to happen

    The only way for growth to happen

    Pruning.  I never understood it.  If you actually managed to keep a plant alive, why would you cut a large part of it away?  And regularly? Yet we have learned from experience, either doing it ourselves or benefiting from the yields of plants that are regularly pruned.  Pruning is not only beneficial; it is essential!

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  • Deuteronomy 6:5-7

    Deuteronomy 6:5-7 “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.  Impress them on your children.  Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when

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