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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 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 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 23, 2021
- 3 min
The Worthy Ministry of Stay-at-Home Mamas
"When did being 'just' a stay-at-home mom become not enough?" I can’t remember the exact context of the conversation. But his words...
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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 4, 2021
- 2 min
She's worth the bowl of mac and cheese...
She's worth the bowl of mac-and-cheese. That's what he taught me last night. It was already past bedtime, and we had chosen to grill out...
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easpenner
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
Love Beyond-Extraordinary
I didn’t get to sleep in. My little five-AM wake-up call doesn’t have a snooze button. I didn’t have a day without arguing or tears....
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easpenner
- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
Sweet Mama, You Are Never Alone
Last night was one of those nights. The kind of night, up with the baby. Then losing myself in mindless Facebook scrolling. Feeling worse...
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easpenner
- Apr 26, 2021
- 1 min
God's Mighty Little Girl
There is this little girl. A little girl God designed to be so incredibly one-of-a-kind that the world would never fit her into its mold....
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easpenner
- Apr 17, 2021
- 1 min
A Mother Never Stops Battling
There’s simply never an end to how many times a mother lines up to go to battle for her babies. Day in. And day out. Never an end to the...
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easpenner
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Motherhood is Meeting God
Sweet mama, as motherhood is bestowed upon us, one beautiful, unexpected way or another, we unexpectedly find ourselves in the thick of...
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