Pursuing More

Hey! I'm glad you're here joining us for another week of the Women Living Well book club! Chapter 14 I’m Gonna Blow My Top! I love the quote this chapter starts off with.                 “ The secret of healthy conflict resolution isn’t taking a you-against-me stance, but realizing it’s all of us against Satan- he’s the real enemy.” Lysa Terkurest Ever been there? Your frustration gets the best of you and you find yourself yelling at your children. Again. We’ve all been there. It’s easy to lose our temper with our children at times. Frustration is a daily emotion we moms have to battle. Why won’t they listen?.... I just want some peace around here! …We’re running late, and you lost your shoes again?! ….Why do you always have to fight with each other?   We feel the weight of running a home, caring for kids, balancing the checkbook and cooking, cleaning, laundering- all part of an unending l...

Welcome to the Women Living Well book review! I missed a chapter last week - oops! So I thought I would do a quick catch-up right now! Chapter 13 Mamahood Mess-Ups Ever feel like a failure? Like you are the only one who doesn’t have it all together? Wonder how all the other moms do it all when you can barely do much right? Feel like your kids are the worst? Why won’t they sleep? Or eat their veggies? Or refuse to keep their clothes on? Or get potty trained? Ever feel like giving up? Wishing for your old life where you got to sleep through the night, only had yourself to get ready in the morning and never stepped in mac and cheese on the floor or spilled grape juice? Some days mamahood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We get disappointed and discouraged. We wonder if we will ever have a normal life again. When you brought that little bundle of joy home from the hospital, you envisioned happy days filled with laughter and love. You wanted to be a happy family. Then ...

Welcome back to the book club! We are reading through the book Women Living Well by Courtney Joseph. This week we're reading chapters 11 & 12 Chapter 11 The Influence Of A Mother The first paragraph contains two very good questions that each mom should sit and ponder over a good cup of coffee. (Especially on a cold winter day!)                 “Do you know how powerful your influence is?”                 “How do you use that influence?” As a woman, you have a gift of influence. What you say and do and how you say or do it makes an impression on those around you.   It’s an awesome thing. But it is essential that you use it to influence others in a Godly way. Those little people living in your home – the ones who don’t sleep through the night…put their shoes on the wrong feet….and have messy rooms… t...

Welcome back to the book club! We are reading through the book Women Living Well by Courtney Joseph. This week we’re reading chapters 8,9 and 10. “Banishing Bitterness to Find Happily Ever After” and “The Completing Him Marriage Challenge” (part 1 and 2). Happily Ever After…. Who doesn’t want that? We dream of it, we long for it, Disney has made millions off of that desire. And it’s what filled our minds as we said “I do.” At least that’s what I had in mind. I thought marriage would be wedded bliss. But the fairy tale dreams in our eyes sooner or later wake up to reality. Prince Charming isn’t really so charming after a while. And, well, if we have to admit it, we aren’t so much Cinderella-like all that much anymore either. But wait. You married that guy because you thought he was The Man. You giggled when he grinned at you. You wanted to impress him, to help him, to attract him. Somewhere in the daily chaos of life that gets lost, especially whe...