“Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.” – Zechariah 4:10 NLT I walked down the hall into my daughter’s room only to find her entire toy box and dollhouse emptied onto the floor. She looked up and smiled. She’d just gotten to the age where I could…
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A Guest Post – Praying Moms
**Please welcome Esther Feng of For Such a Time as This who is guest posting here today. Praying Moms by Esther Feng As moms, we pray for our kids. We pray in the car, we pray while we’re changing diapers, we pray over sleeping babies. Some days, we’ve used every parenting tool in our tool…
A Guest Post: “Because of My Story”
** Please welcome Sharon at fathiesgramma@msn.com, who is guest posting here today. Because of My Story by Sharon My husband has often said, “I wish I had a testimony–a story–like yours.” And I’ve said back to him, “I would rather to have had a family like yours and no testimony to share.” When I was…
Worry into wonder…
Are you worrying about something right now? One of my favorite verses in the Bible is Matthew 25:6-34… “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than…
Long after the gifts…
My son had his ninth birthday a couple weeks ago. After he left for school that day, I went to the store, got him a balloon as a surprise and a couple dozen donuts to share with his class. When I showed up in his classroom, he beamed. His teacher helped him to clip the…
Grace is…
Grace… is the unexplainable hope that washes away the accusing whispers that dance in the darkness and hide behind the mirror and say, “You need to be thinner and thinner and thinner.” Grace… is the light that calls you toward something so good that you’re scared to trust it. You might even ignore it at…
A Moment of Grace…
Last year, my son went through a phase of independence. At just seven years old, he no longer wanted me hugging him around his friends, calling him buddy, or kissing him when I dropped him off places. But during that phase, one day as I was writing at the kitchen table, he did something that…
Grace instead of punishment…
A while ago, my husband got a new phone system in our house that made working from home easier for him. One of the features of the system was that the phones intercomed each other–a convenient thing when you needed to ask a quick question from upstairs or downstairs and didn’t want to yell. My…
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Barbie, Managing Editor
Hello! I'm Barbie, Managing Editor here at 5MinutesforFaith. I am so glad you stopped by! I live in Northern California with my husband and our four children, and I I love to openly and honestly share about God from my heart...
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