by Lysa TerKeurst | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, It Will Be Okay, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual Growth
One of the hardest life lessons for me to teach my kids has been on fear and worry. As their mom, I feel what they feel. I hurt when they hurt. I worry about their worries. When one of my daughters was seven, she suddenly became afraid to get up on a stage in front of...
by Lysa TerKeurst | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Mother's Day, Parenting, Prayer, Spiritual Growth
Being a mom is wonderfully amazing. Until it isn’t. And I find myself awake at 3am wondering what I could have done better … or beating myself up for all the ways I fall short … or convincing myself I sometimes just flat out stink at being a mom....
by Lysa TerKeurst | Apr 17, 2014 | Blog, Easter, Experiencing Israel, Prayer, Spiritual Growth
“The Teacher asks: ‘Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large upper room, all furnished. Make preparations there… When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog, Parenting, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, Young Women
There is something I’ve come to realize I need to guard against as a mom. I sometimes want to be God in my kids’ lives. I want to write their stories. I want to set the courses of their futures. I want to determine what’s best for them. I want to prevent them...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog, Guest Post, Parenting, Prayer, Spiritual Growth
Last week I wrote about prayers for your marriage. There was such a response, I decided this week to have my friend Brooke McGlothlin write a guest post on 10 prayers for your son. (On Friday I’ll be posting 10 prayers for your daughter.) Here’s my friend, Brooke… He...
by Lysa TerKeurst | Sep 25, 2013 | Blog, Prayer
Prayer does make a difference – a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference. We don’t need to know how. We don’t need to know when. We just need to kneel confidently and know the tremors of a simple Jesus girl’s prayers extend far wide and far high...
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