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Continue reading →: IT’S HERE! Pre-order my book for Mother’s Day!
Are you struggling with your role as a mother? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for little ones and uncertain of how to prioritize it all? Today’s mothers are asked to juggle so many roles that we often lose sight of what is most important: we have…
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Continue reading →: MONDAY MOORINGS: LORD, I HAVE DOUBTS.
Family Devotion of the Gospel: Read Matthew 11:2–11 Do you have doubts about who Jesus really is? You aren’t alone. The very people who rubbed shoulders with Jesus did, too. But first, as we say in the television news business, the backstory. In this week’s gospel passage from Matthew, John the Baptist…
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Continue reading →: MONDAY MOORINGS: Lord, Give Me Perspective
Family Devotional Gospel: Luke 19:1–10 My only son fell out of a tree a few summers ago, smashing into the concrete pool deck below and fracturing his arm in three places. My brother had tied a rope swing high up into the branches of that tree, teaching my son and his…
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Continue reading →: THE MOUNTAINTOP REVEAL
Dig Deeper into the Gospel: Read Matthew 17:1–9 The summer before my senior year of college, I was interning for a member of the U.S. Congress when our office was ushered in to hear a guest speaker on Capitol Hill. Erik Weihenmayer had endured a difficult childhood, losing his eyesight at…
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Continue reading →: MAMA, GET UP.
I told her, the nurse with purple headband and the sparkly eyes, that she was nutty. I. Was. Not. Getting. Up. Our fourth child was less than 12-hours-old and I was quite content to stay horizontal in the hospital bed. After enduring my first C-Section, I was finally settled into…
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Continue reading →: finding confidence in the age of anxiety
I stood in line and fiddled with the scarf wrapped tightly around my nose and mouth, when the TIME magazine cover, “THE AGE OF ANXIETY,” caught my eye. It was the first morning our governor was requiring Marylanders to wear masks in public areas, and the air in our local grocery store…
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Getting Naked In The Garden
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Continue reading →: Getting Naked In The GardenThere is one woman who knows what it’s like to live completely free from worry. The book of Genesis tells us Eve was made by God and in His image and likeness. Genesis 2:25 says, “The man and the woman were both naked, and were not ashamed.” I’m not sure about you,…
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Continue reading →: a message to the mama making the final homeschool push until summer officially begins…
Three Friday’s ago, I sat in our black mini-van. In our driveway. By myself. Tears rolling down my face. Eating a giant piece of chocolate cheesecake. As I scarfed it down, our oldest Lilli, gingerly opened up the driver’s door and looked at me in shock… “Mama, we have all…
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Continue reading →: HOW TO BLOSSOM IN THE MIDST OF ANXIETY
Want to hear my LIVE talk on “How to Blossom In The Midst Of Anxiety”? Visit my Facebook Page JODI DAUSES or visit my “Speaking” Tab here on the blog to book my talk for your church or women’s group. I also host a LIVE panel discussion with…
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Continue reading →: for the mama who has a sick kid (on the most inconvenient day) and needs to catch her breath…
For the My-Kid-Is-Sick-Today-But-I-Desperately-Need-A-Break-Mama, To the Mama who (like me) secretly craves the quiet of a Monday morning when all the kids head back to school where (in between hours of putting away weekend dishes and folding mounds of laundry) you hope to get a minute, just a minute, to soak…