Monica Leija
Junior Member

A book is usually chunked across the room when Christian, 2 years old, doesn’t want to read a certain book. He’ll take a look at it and then yell, “NO!” and the book, no fault of its own goes flying through the air landing with a hard crash. Give Christian a book he wants to read and he’ll take his time with it and carefully look at every page but books beware if Christian is in no mood to read you!

Christian (name changed to protect privacy) is one of the foster children that I

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This morning I was reading someone’s Facebook status in which the person stated how wonderful her life is and listed all the “wonderfuls” in her life and for a split of a second I looked at that list and thought I only have one of those “wonderfuls”. It’s dreadfully sickening how I make life about me. Instead of reading the status and being sincerely happy for all her wonderful that God is blessing her with I once again managed to make it about me.

A few seconds later I got a grip

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So Moses told the people of Israel what the Lord had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery (Exodus 6:9).

The Israelites were drenched in hopelessness. Discouragement…their hearts dwelled there. They knew all too well life’s unfair blows- 400 years of cruel oppression at the hand of their Egyptian slave drivers. They were a broken people who desperately needed a mighty God.

We’ve been there haven’t

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I confess that I had a bad attitude about babies. I used to think that at best all babies did was sleep, poop, burp, eat, cry and not bring anything to the table and while that is mostly true my life has been deeply impacted by these tiny creatures called babies and toddlers.

A few months ago I filled out an application to volunteer with Casa de Esperanza (House of Hope). It’s an organization that cares for foster children, ages birth through six years old. I got accepted and went

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The stunning bride rides in a fairytale horse carriage and is escorted down from the carriage and walked down the grassy aisle to meet her expectant groom. The setting – breath taking. Weather perfect. Scenery - lake and trees that were picturesque.

A few weeks ago I attended the wedding of dear friends. It had been a while since I had attended a wedding where I wasn’t consumed in self absorbed thoughts like, “When Lord, when will it be my turn?” but this marriage celebration was

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