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28 Dec A New Year’s Guiding Principle: Live Like You’re 87

Posted at 06:00h in Missional Living, Missional Mothering, Personal Health, Spiritual Disciplines by Natalie Maki 0 Comments

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It’s Christmas Eve. All is calm, all is bright. I’m snuggled up with our dog, Sam, in a cozy room full of beloved family members napping. Through the almost floor-to-ceiling windows, a stand of trees reaches high into the sky, their branches gnarled and bare,...

24 Dec Anticipating Christ’s Birth through the Advent Fast

Posted at 22:28h in Missional Mothering, Spiritual Disciplines by Caroline Jarboe 0 Comments

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In my Eastern Orthodox church, it is a traditional practice to fast during Advent. I can’t think of anything better to underscore for my children the idea of anticipation, and waiting for the birth of Christ. But by December 23, we are all getting kind of...

23 Dec The problem with comparison

Posted at 14:07h in Missional Living, Missional Mothering by Autumn Daldo 0 Comments

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I’ve been teetering between the two lines of loving or hating social media. Social media can be a great thing. It’s such a wonderful way to connect and get a glimpse into peoples lives but it also can be too much shouting of opinions, nonsense...

19 Dec On Santa, Advent, and Victories

Posted at 20:38h in Missional Mothering by Molly Huggins 0 Comments

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Advent - the Christmas season - is my favorite time of year. Mostly because I am a storyteller, and this is the greatest Story ever told. I am in a daze of wonder for the whole of December, star-stricken by the Divine humanity. Sometimes I write about Mary,...

12 Dec Teaching Our Children the Joy of Giving

Posted at 19:00h in Missional Mothering by Laura Thomas 0 Comments

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The popular Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi" tells the tale of Jim and Della, a couple who love each other deeply but don't have any extra money to buy each other Christmas gifts. Secretly, each decides to sell their most prized possession in...

06 Dec Celebrating the Life of Saint Nicholas

Posted at 17:21h in Missional Mothering, Popular Culture & Entertainment by Laura Thomas 3 Comments

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This Christmas, your house or yard may be decked out with Santa and his reindeer, but do you know the "man behind the myth?" Whether or not you "do Santa" in your house, Saint Nicholas himself is a guy worth getting to know! St. Nicholas or "Santa"...

05 Dec To the broken and broke-down at Christmas

Posted at 09:16h in Missional Mothering by Molly Huggins 1 Comment

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I’ve lost two babes at two different times in the days before Christmas. And so I revel in the humanity of the players. I empathize with young Mary, of course. I keep thinking of her physical feelings, her emotions at being a first-time mother. Closing my eyes...

28 Nov Secondary Infertility: Trusting God When Pregnancy Stops

Posted at 17:20h in Missional Mothering by Nana Dolce 1 Comment

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I grew up with a desire for marriage and children. I had names for four future children by the age of ten. But our expectations and realities do not always match--particularly in the area of fertility. My community is comprised of women with more children than...

23 Nov A Walk in Muir Woods

Posted at 06:00h in Missional Mothering by Natalie Maki 2 Comments

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Mimi offered to babysit on Saturday. When Mimi offers to babysit, we say, “Yes, please!” and high tail it out of the house. For years I’ve had this fantasy that once we moved home, we would go back to all the places I loved as a...

21 Nov On Thanksgiving, and thanks-living.

Posted at 16:21h in Missional Mothering by Molly Huggins 0 Comments

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It’s sweater weather in Virginia ...

28 Dec A New Year’s Guiding Principle: Live Like You’re 87

24 Dec Anticipating Christ’s Birth through the Advent Fast

23 Dec The problem with comparison

19 Dec On Santa, Advent, and Victories

12 Dec Teaching Our Children the Joy of Giving

06 Dec Celebrating the Life of Saint Nicholas

05 Dec To the broken and broke-down at Christmas

28 Nov Secondary Infertility: Trusting God When Pregnancy Stops

23 Nov A Walk in Muir Woods

21 Nov On Thanksgiving, and thanks-living.

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28 Dec A New Year’s Guiding Principle: Live Like You’re 87

24 Dec Anticipating Christ’s Birth through the Advent Fast

23 Dec The problem with comparison

19 Dec On Santa, Advent, and Victories

12 Dec Teaching Our Children the Joy of Giving

06 Dec Celebrating the Life of Saint Nicholas

05 Dec To the broken and broke-down at Christmas

28 Nov Secondary Infertility: Trusting God When Pregnancy Stops

23 Nov A Walk in Muir Woods

21 Nov On Thanksgiving, and thanks-living.

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