There is a kind of loneliness that does not come from people. It comes from silence. Image courtesy of Pixabay The kind that settles in after life has rearranged itself. After divorce. After estrangement. After career shifts. After children grow up and build lives of their own. You find yourself in your second act — and it looks different than you imagined. And if you are a woman of faith, you may quietly ask: God, are You still here? Midlife... Read more
The prayer God answered may not be the one He’s asking you to keep living. That sentence unsettles many faithful women—because we’ve been taught that honoring God means staying loyal to the past. Image courtesy of Unsplash We learn to equate faithfulness with endurance. Staying. Holding on. Never letting go. So when a season ends—or begins to feel too small—we don’t just question ourselves. We question our faith. But Scripture tells a different story. Biblical Seasons of Release and Renewal... Read more
There is a quiet ache many mothers carry that few people see. It doesn’t announce itself loudly.It doesn’t always come with a crisis others can rally around.It settles in the heart and stays. It’s the ache of loving an adult child who is struggling—and realizing there is very little you can do to change it. Image courtesy of Pexels When our children were small, our faith often felt active and practical. We prayed while packing lunches. We intervened. We solved... Read more
Some seasons arrive without explanation. A marriage ends.Children grow distant.The life you poured yourself into no longer needs you in the same way. There is no ceremony for this moment. No language handed to you for the ache that settles in your chest. Just the quiet awareness that something foundational has shifted—and that the role you once occupied with such purpose now feels uncertain, even fragile. It’s easy, in moments like this, to assume this is the cost.The consequence.The reckoning... Read more
There are wounds mothers carry that feel too heavy to bring into prayer. Image courtesy of Pixabay They don’t show up neatly in our words. They sit in our chests, unspoken. They arrive in the quiet moments, maybe late at night, driving alone, standing at the sink. A broken or painful relationship with a child has a way of touching everything, including how we see God. We begin to wonder if this pain is deserved. If we missed something important.... Read more
We talk a lot about the Christmas miracle – the baby in the manger, the breaking of heaven into earth, the fulfillment of ancient promises. But we don’t talk much about the waiting that preceded it. Image coutesy of Pexels Four hundred years of silence between the last Old Testament prophet and the birth of Christ. Four hundred years of waiting, wondering, hoping, and sometimes doubting that God would keep His promises. Four hundred years is a long time to... Read more
I used to believe that if I prayed hard enough, loved sacrificially enough, and honored God in my mothering, He would bless me with close relationships with my adult children. That was the unspoken promise, wasn’t it? Raise them in the way they should go, and everything will turn out right. Image courtesy of Pexels So when my relationship with my adult child shattered, I didn’t just feel heartbroken. I felt abandoned by God. If you’re a Christian mother experiencing... Read more
The biblical model of motherhood we were handed came with an unspoken contract: sacrifice everything, endure anything, and never, ever stop giving. Mary at the foot of the cross became our template—the mother who stays present through her child’s suffering, who never stops watching, never stops caring, never stops bearing the pain alongside them. But what if we misunderstood the lesson? Image courtesy of Pexels The Theology of Endless Rescue I was raised in a church culture (and a... Read more
There’s a lie many Christian women carry deep in their bones: “If I had been a better mom, my kids wouldn’t struggle.” We don’t say it out loud.We just let it bruise us from the inside. Image via Pexels But nowhere in Scripture does God ask mothers to be perfect.Or omniscient.Or all-powerful.Or responsible for the salvation and sanctification of their children. That’s His job.Not yours. So why do we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders? Because we... Read more
There’s a particular breed of Christian motherhood that confuses sacrifice with sanctification. That believes suffering in silence somehow brings you closer to holiness. That whispers, “This is your cross to bear,” every time you’re drowning in everyone else’s needs. I believed that lie for years. I thought being a godly mother meant erasing myself completely. Emptying my cup until there was nothing left. Dying to self—and staying dead, apparently, forever. Image courtesy of Unsplash But somewhere in the Gospels between... Read more
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