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by Lisa-Jo | Aug 18, 2014 | Cheering for you, Faith, Just plain hard
Our Father, who art in heaven, Who sees the world from the perspective of His own divine eternity – the now and the tomorrow lens of Divine Love that always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres – with eternal eyes and Kingdom mind and...
by Lisa-Jo | May 29, 2014 | Just plain hard, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom
In all, 13.7 million U.S. households with children under age 18 now include mothers who are the main breadwinners. Of those, 5.1 million, or 37 percent, are married, while 8.6 million, or 63 percent, are single. ~Pew Research Study via Huffington Post Like it or not,...
by Lisa-Jo | May 27, 2014 | Just plain hard, Motherhood
I’m reading this book on gangs and it couldn’t possibly apply less to me. So why’m I underlining every other sentence and dog-earing the pages about the homies in East LA, then? I’m a white, suburban mom with three kids who don’t know jack about being in or out or...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 28, 2014 | Faith, Just plain hard
On the days when my gaze strays like some lusty peeping Tom into the windows of what she’s doing, teaching, speaking, attending, making, baking, loving, learning, writing, creating. When I start to compare her blog or platform or waistband or well-behaved kids...
by Lisa-Jo | Apr 8, 2014 | Cheering for you, Just plain hard, Ordinary Glory, surprised by motherhood
How do you measure meaning in the life of a mom? Is it in diapers changed? Loads of laundry folded? Dishes washed and stacked and put away? Is it in temper tantrums soothed, fevers treated, number of steps walked to rock babies back to sleep? What about all those...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 24, 2014 | Just plain hard, Rabid fear of parenting, Raising Boys, surprised by motherhood
There are frayed edges of motherhood that aren’t often talked about. Those places where we’re holding onto our temper with one hand and the belief that things have got to get better eventually with the other. One night that place rocks me hard as I rock my...
