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The Beauty of Rest in Our Motherhood
It shouldn’t be like this, you know? This continuous feeling of being steamrolled by our own motherhood. Sheer exhaustion. Day in. And...
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easpenner
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
God's Sweet, Amazing Grace
Five cups of hot chocolate and a Netflix Christmas movie. That's how Friday night ended. That's not how, however, how Friday night...
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easpenner
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
Motherhood is Too Beautiful Even for Satan
I want to let you in on a little secret, sweet mamas. Satan will never stop trying. He will never, ever stop trying to destroy your...
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easpenner
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
A Mother and Her Son: God's Greatest Love Story
I never understood... I never understood why she called him so much. I never understood why she still wanted to visit him so often, even...
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easpenner
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
The Gift of the Wild Child
The gift of the wild child. Not everyone receives the gift of the wild child, but when you do, you'll know--for she is nothing less...
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easpenner
- Aug 26, 2021
- 3 min
Our Children Always Deserve Our Grace
This was the scene last night of a mighty, mighty battle… …a little boy taking on the world with his strong will and terrible threes… …a...
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easpenner
- Aug 22, 2021
- 1 min
A Mama Never Stops Giving Pep-Talks
There’s never an end to the amount of pep talks a mama gives to her children. Never an end to her questioning of whether she said...
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easpenner
- Aug 20, 2021
- 2 min
Our children needs us now, more than ever before...
If ever there was a picture to encapsulate the emotions of our children this past year...this is it. I took this photo a few days before...
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easpenner
- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
A Mama Tries So Hard Not to Blink...
A mama tries so hard not to blink. A mama tries so hard not to blink, because she knows just exactly what that blink means... …just a...
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easpenner
- Aug 8, 2021
- 2 min
A Mama's Heart is Always With Her Children
Every time a mama watches her child walk away, she feels a piece of her heart walk away too; and wherever a mama's babies go, a piece of...
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easpenner
- Aug 6, 2021
- 2 min
A Mama Just Needs a Minute...
A mama stays up late to set it all down... Ask just about any mama, and she’ll tell you—even if she falls asleep sitting up on the...
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easpenner
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
They'll always remember a mama who digs into life with them...
"I think they'd really like it if you got into the lake with them today," my husband whispered. I knew he was right. But, I had become a...
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easpenner
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
Sometimes, being a mama means taking a lifeboat ride on the ever-giving waves of God's grace...
Sometimes, being a mama means not wanting to do one more thing. It means passing up a sink full of dishes, over and over, and over...
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easpenner
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
Our girls need us now more than ever...
Our girls need us. Our girls need us now more than ever before. Satan has found ways to reach our girls in ways we could never imagine....
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easpenner
- Jun 20, 2021
- 1 min
A Mother's Love will Forever Stop Me in My Tracks...
It stops me in my tracks every single time... The little scrunched up knees. The little busy toes, finally resting The mesmerizing,...
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easpenner
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
There's just something about a grandma's hug...
There's just something about a grandma's hug. Something that makes you want to unbuckle your seat belt and run back into her house, for...
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easpenner
- Jun 15, 2021
- 2 min
Dear Dads, You Set the Standard for Your Daughter
“I don’t deserve this, Mommy and Daddy,” she whispered. Just loud enough to compensate for the sizzle of the boiling pasta water and...
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easpenner
- May 21, 2021
- 2 min
To the Homeschooling Mama: the Quiet, Unsung Hero
I never thought I’d be a homeschooling mom. For twelve years, I got up and was ready to be out the door and in a classroom as an...
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easpenner
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min
To My Daughter, The Table-Inviter
To my darling daughter—pushed out of your comfort zone last night--I’m so proud of you. I watched you—from the sidelines of your cross...
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