devotional for women

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.  But the man who loves God is known by God. 1 Corinthians 8:1b-3 Paul wrote this to people arguing over whether eating food sacrificed to idols was sinful or not. Ironically it…

My family and I spent the weekend decorating our house and our yard for Christmas. It was a full weekend job. As we decorated the kids and I talked about Mary, Joseph and Jesus. Then it happened. I thought, I wish I was like Mary. She just believed what the angel told her. I bet…

Ann Voskamp calls it “spiritual Alzheimer’s.” Paul says, “Only let us live up to what we have already attained.” (Philippians 3:16) And daily I struggle to not forget and to live up to what I have attained. A friend once asked, as we sat at my sticky kitchen table, “Is it always going to be…

“J, mommy doesn’t love you. She knows you hurt your foot, but she isn’t coming upstairs,” her words lit a fire under my pressurized emotions. My heart beat quickened, throat closed tight, and head pounded. Something was going to spew forth. What do we do in those moments? Times when children, bosses, friends, or families…