Laura Thomas, Author at Missionary Mama

02 Mar Rejoicing in Our Portion

Posted at 16:22h in Household Management, Missional Living, Personal Health, Spiritual Disciplines by Laura Thomas 1 Comment

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My kids love it when I read them the story of how God created the world. I love reading how in each aspect of creation, God looked at his work and declared it "good." I like to think about this when I consider the work...

22 Feb The Day I Threw My Scale Away

Posted at 16:24h in Missional Living by Laura Thomas 0 Comments

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My struggle with perfectionism began in my late teen years. I am a type-A personality and long for excellence in everything I do. And yet, I found myself in high school being on the B-string for sports and making above average (but not perfect) grades. High...

16 Feb In Pursuit of Peace

Posted at 17:07h in Missional Living by Laura Thomas 0 Comments

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We as humans aspire to a lot of things - to make a difference in the world, to experience success or gain fortune, to be productive and fruitful in our spheres of work and daily living. Our aspirations (or the synonym "ambitions") can be positive...

09 Feb A Goodbye Letter to My Son’s Pacifiers

Posted at 16:40h in Missional Mothering by Laura Thomas 1 Comment

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Dear Ba-Bees (Translation = What my son calls his pacifiers), Today we said goodbye to you all. I was told that some really amazing parents out there have tied you all to helium balloons and watched you fly up into the sky in a seemingly majestic...

02 Feb 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You

Posted at 21:01h in Missional Living by Laura Thomas 0 Comments

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It's a fact: Smartphones have changed life as we know it. With the world at our fingertips, we can access email, do online banking, utilize maps, search engines, and social media at any moment of the day. For the large majority of us, our smartphones never...

26 Jan 7 Tips to Help You Persevere in Family Devotions

Posted at 17:10h in Missional Mothering by Laura Thomas 1 Comment

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As a teenager, I remember when my father would read a short devotional to me and my brother in the morning before we left for school. He wisely sought to lead our family spiritually and fill our minds and hearts with God's Word before we...

19 Jan And the Tree Was Happy

Posted at 16:44h in Missional Mothering by Laura Thomas 0 Comments

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Recently my two and a half year old son has really gotten into read-aloud time. Whenever we are at home, he runs to the bookshelf, grabs a book and chooses a member of the family to read to him. Given that there are five people...

12 Jan Honey for a Child’s Heart

Posted at 14:09h in Missional Mothering by Laura Thomas 2 Comments

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It has been a hard day. My toddler dumped out an entire container of baking powder with a whole bag of coffee grounds and created his own special "$8 art project" on my kitchen counter. While I was cleaning up this mess and mourning the...

05 Jan The Gift of Being Seen and Heard

Posted at 15:54h in Missional Mothering by Laura Thomas 1 Comment

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"Mommy, did you see me?" my nine year old daughter asked expectantly as she ran up the stairs after her gymnastics class. She has been working hard on perfecting her back walk-over and wanted to know if I saw that today she had finally nailed...

30 Dec Walking into a New Year

Posted at 19:02h in Missional Living by Laura Thomas 0 Comments

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I took the ornaments from our Christmas tree one by one. I threw away cookie crumbs and wrapping paper, vacuuming up the disposable elements of Christmas in our home, all the while contemplating the decrescendo from a major day of celebration. A couple of days of...

02 Mar Rejoicing in Our Portion

22 Feb The Day I Threw My Scale Away

16 Feb In Pursuit of Peace

09 Feb A Goodbye Letter to My Son’s Pacifiers

02 Feb 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You

26 Jan 7 Tips to Help You Persevere in Family Devotions

19 Jan And the Tree Was Happy

12 Jan Honey for a Child’s Heart

05 Jan The Gift of Being Seen and Heard

30 Dec Walking into a New Year

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02 Mar Rejoicing in Our Portion

22 Feb The Day I Threw My Scale Away

16 Feb In Pursuit of Peace

09 Feb A Goodbye Letter to My Son’s Pacifiers

02 Feb 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You

26 Jan 7 Tips to Help You Persevere in Family Devotions

19 Jan And the Tree Was Happy

12 Jan Honey for a Child’s Heart

05 Jan The Gift of Being Seen and Heard

30 Dec Walking into a New Year

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