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Five specific ways you can support missionaries

May 28, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

5 Ways Missionaries Need Your Support

I know I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… missionaries need your support. Yes, they need your financial support, but it is really so much more than that. 1) They need you to check in with them regularly (especially since they often feel guilty about asking for yet another thing… so really press […]

Filed Under: + Service Opps, Faith & Culture · Tagged With: missionaries

Who is listening?

May 26, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Psalm 19:14 (Photo courtesy of Mark Menzies via Flikr)

I was talking with a group of friends about the importance of thinking before speaking. Another mom shared how she found herself being more mindful of her words when she thought about how they might sound coming out of her daughter’s mouth. It made me think about something that happened at my house when my […]

Filed Under: + Quick Thoughts · Tagged With: devotional

Treasuring the Loss

May 22, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and thieves break in and steal.

When we first started planning a move to Nicaragua, I went through a whole season of purging. Oh man, was that painful. Essentially I had to look at every single item in our 1800 sq. foot house and decide what to do with it. In previous moves, there was always the point at the end […]

Filed Under: + Not of This World · Tagged With: downsizing, love affair with stuff, packing

Angry with God

May 16, 2014 By Wendy Willard · 2 Comments ·

2 Corinthians 12: 7-9 The Message

Anyone who has spent years (decades?) praying for a loved one to be healed, a handicap or weakness to be removed, or for a certain situation to improve, likely has felt angry with God at one point or another. I know I have. I am grateful for a lesson taught by David Couchman, on how Jeremiah […]

Filed Under: + Why are we here?, Faith & Culture · Tagged With: anger, frustration, Jeremiah

It doesn’t have to be itsy bitsy

May 12, 2014 By Wendy Willard · 2 Comments ·

Modest, beautiful swimwear from Divinita Sole

Swimsuit season is upon us (or if you live in a perpetually warm place like me, it’s always with us). As a mom of teenagers, I am perpetually dealing with bathing suit issues. I once had a teen foster daughter with a rather large chest. She desperately wanted a two-piece swimsuit, but after visiting dozens […]

Filed Under: + Just for Women, + Not of This World, + Parenting · Tagged With: modest swimwear

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