One day your daughter is fine, the next she is sick — and gets worse as time goes on. How can things go so sideways? One mother discovered that God was working behind the scenes in her daughter’s sickness and would use it for the girl’s eternal good.
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Reckless Love
He was a pre-teen who came with warnings from the foster care system of creating problems, but a husband and wife still wanted him. They believed what he really needed was tough love. And that made the difference.
Read moreSuffering Rewarded
Pregnancy can bring not just physical pain to a woman but emotional pain as well. Through time in nature and God’s help in prayer, one woman overcame her anxieties and self-doubt about becoming a mother.
Read moreA Modern Sarah
Children are a blessing of the Lord, the Bible says. But some women don’t have the privilege of enjoying that blessing, for one reason or another. For one woman, the blessing of a baby came in a way she never expected.
Read moreEmbracing the Empty Nest
You have children, raise them, love them, and prepare them to enter the real world. Easier said than done, according to one mom. Despite knowing these truths, she struggled with the absence of her daughters and letting them make their own decisions. Just as they had a lot to learn about the world, so this mother had a lot to learn from God about the new place she had in their lives.
Read moreWaiting for My Prodigal Son
Parents pray to adopt a son they can love, but he isn’t the son they thought he would be. As a mother struggles to love him, she finds new strength in God.
Read moreFinding Closure
It’s a tragic problem far too common for women: losing a pre-born baby. One woman cycles through all the emotions after the death of her infant baby girl, and ultimately honors her daughter in a fitting way.
Read moreAnd Baby Makes Two
Sowing in tears, reaping in joy. by Harriet E. Michael “Mom. . . I’m pregnant.” My twenty-year-old daughter, a junior at a Christian college, spoke in a calm voice, rocking my world and changing it forever. The phone had rung a little before midnight, waking me from a sound sleep. My daughter continued, “I’ve…
Read moreChild of Promise
The sufficiency of Christ . . . when we need Him most. by Donna Scales The telephone call came on a Friday afternoon — the call that changed our family’s future. The caller identified himself as Dr. Combs.* Why would he be calling? I wondered. We just saw him this morning. Dr. Combs was…
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