My kids don’t watch a lot of television—practically none during school weeks, and rarely ever at night. But the other night, I sat down with my kids to watch the first episode of a new show about the Muppets. I told them that I hadn’t previewed it, so we were going to watch it together…
Author: Monica
Monica is a Bible teacher, freelance author, and editor who loves Jesus and her family. She is humbled to soak up the love and grace of God each day and seeks to share it with others.
Why I Love Stories
As a child, the Snow White fairy tale fascinated me beyond all the others. She had dark hair like me, which helped, probably. And I always hung on the words “hair as black as ebony, skin as white as snow, and lips as red as blood.” It sounded mysterious and elegant, and then there was…
My House is Super Quiet Now
For twelve years, I have had a baby or a toddler in tow with me all the day long. My youngest started preschool this year, and now I have nine hours a week to myself. Many mothers would jump and cheer about this, but as having a child on my hip is truly my sweet…
Home
I once lived in a little cabin on a piece of property where my family’s realtor lived. A house deal fell through at the last hour and we were homeless, stranded, scrambling. Our kind realtor, with a nice daughter my age, let my parents and their children stay in their two-room cabin with a kitchenette….
A Teacher Prayer
My seven-year-old said a convicting thing to me yesterday. “Whenever I am at school and I get nervous about anything, I just pray. And Jesus helps me. I pray all the time at school.” I smiled and encouraged and swelled in my heart with love for God who has made Himself so very real to…
What Hurricane Katrina Survivors Taught Me
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States ten years ago this week. I wasn’t in the storm, but I remember the people. After Hurricane Katrina, my husband and I volunteered at an old military base where authorities bussed many displaced people from New Orleans. These displaced citizens, my neighbors, were in a…
When People Don’t Properly Yield.
I get irritated when people slow down way too much at yield signs. I don’t honk or anything, but I explain to them why there is plenty of space for them to move into the oncoming traffic. They can’t hear me. But I still tell them. And then God started working an understanding of the…
Open Letter to Parents of College Freshmen
(from the wife of a residence life professional) A new world of parents shall send their children to college for the first time in a few short days. Right now, they are checking lists of what to bring to the residence halls, scoping out their children’s future roommates, and probably stressing out a little bit….
Attennnntion!
I’ve been watching the sun set, and I love the contrast of light and dark, the colors the light makes in the sky. Have you ever entered a dark room, wherein there is only one light? Amidst the shadows, our eyes are naturally drawn to the source of the light. We fix our eyes on…
My Super-Galactic God
Fall is coming, people. It may not seem that way in the 100-degree heat of summer, but that doesn’t mean it’s not right there, waiting to pounce on the joy of unscheduled summer goodness. My husband and I looked at the fall schedule beginning to fill up as we signed up our four littles for…
Pluto and Other Thoughts from the Fringe
My family recently visited Lowell Observatory where we were able to see the actual telescope that took tons of pictures of the cosmos and basically discovered Pluto. My children were excited to see the telescope (and they were also indignant that Pluto is no longer considered a planet, having been relegated to “dwarf planet” status…
My Wish for America
Happy Birthday, United States of America! So, America is great. The women’s soccer team rocks. There are lots of states with different flavors of culture mixed all up in them. We have freedoms hard to find in some other places in the world. People don’t like to mess with the USA too much, and I…
A Picture of What 