I am honored to have Brenda from Triple Braided guest posting for us today on the importance of leaving a legacy in a single woman's life. Please take a moment to stop by and visit her and learn more about her new book Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single. You will be so glad you did!When you were young, say in your late teen years or early twenties, maybe even older, did you have a woman who came alongside you to "show you the ropes"? If you were fortunate your mom fulfilled this role, but let's pretend she didn't. Was there another woman who helped you prepare for marriage and life and family? When we think about leaving a legacy, we most often think about leaving a legacy for our children. There is no doubt that this is the most obvious and important place that we ... read more
A Legacy of Hope in Jesus and a Link Up
Please click HERE to enter The Ultimate Kitchen Aid Mixer Giveaway! What type of individuals do you like to be around? Someone who has a downcast spirit or someone who puts their hope in God? "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." ~Psalm 43:5 Have you ever noticed that it's easy to pick up some of the same type of attitudes of those you're around? This is easy for our children to do as well. They're imitators of all that we say and do. "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children." ~ Ephesians 5:1 We need to be imitators of God, so our children can do like wise. The world already has enough dissension and turmoil. It's time to get back to the basics. As Christian ... read more
A Legacy of Perseverance and a Link Up
What's the first word that comes to your mind when you see the picture above? The word I first think of is perseverance. I can hardly imagine the sacrifice the brave young man must have gone through for our country, and the courage, determination, and perseverance that it takes for him to get through each day. This is the type of perseverance that I want for my children. I want them to know that life will be full of things that they have never excepted and it will take reaching to the depths of their being to search for the strength to make it through. This type of character is not something that were born with, but rather, it's something that is learned through the hard and somewhat tough lessons of life. In our family, we always say,"You need to finish what you start. "Stopping ... read more
A Chapter of Faith {I Sure Wish I Could See}
I look at my own life as a book. Within my book of life there are many chapters, childhood, being a teenager, college, marriage, children and the list goes on. I would consider myself to be towards the middle of my book, buried deep into a chapter that can be very hard to read and understand...... it is my chapter of faith.As I walk the path of being a breast cancer survivor, I am currently elbow deep into learning what faith means. It's so easy to say the word, but another thing to truly know it and believe it. I've had many chances to learn faith. Chances that have brought me down on my knees in prayer with tears rolling down my eyes, hands gripping tightly to my worn Bible as the word ,"Why?" was the only thing I could utter. I know that all of our chapters read differently. We have all ... read more
A Legacy of Living Life on the Playground and a Link Up
"Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!" Psalms 47:1 I once read a story about a family who had very little. The mother was busy making a meal out of the only food they had, potatoes. As she was peeling the potatoes to put in the pot, she heard the laughter of her children outside on the neighboring playground begging her to come and play. She knew at that moment she had a choice....a choice to dwell in her sorrows or a choice to go out and play with her children. She made a choice.....she choose joy. She choose to not dwell on the negatives in her life and instead focus on what was good. "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. "~Helen Keller Years later her ... read more
A Legacy of Love and a Link Up
Twenty years ago today, my husband and I said, "I do", in front of family and friends. Wow! We were so young 22 and 23, we had the world ahead of us and thought we could accomplish anything that the world threw at us. You know what? We did. Was it perfect? Absolutely not. However....by the grace of God we made it.We have gone through more than we could have ever dreamed. The birth of two precious children, the death of family members and a diagnosis that shattered our world......stage IV breast cancer.Throughout these twenty years of ups and downs we have always had two choices. We could both have turned and run when things got difficulty or messy.....or we could choose God's way. God's way has always been the path we have both chosen. Our desire as husband and wife has been to show our ... read more
Show Them Jesus
Please welcome our featured blogger for the month of September, Christina from To Show Them Jesus. You know you've had a bad day when your child prays that God would give you patience. Have you been there?My days are spent rushing from one thing to the next and trying to get my kids to keep up with me. I am irritable and short. I get frustrated by whatever slows me down. And as my son pointed out, I get impatient.My heart's passion is that my children would know and love Christ with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. I read to them from Scripture, explain the gospel, and help them learn about their maker.Yet far too often, my own behavior is a deterrent and distraction. St. Francis said "Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary use words." As a parent, if my ... read more
A Legacy of Respect and a Link Up
My parents September 26th, 1992. God has been speaking to my heart lately about the word respect. The dictionary states that the definition of the word respect is: "an act of giving particular attention, high or special regard, the quality or state of being esteemed." I often wonder what has happened to respect in our society. So many elderly or underprivileged are being tossed aside as if they and their lives didn't matter. It's time for we as Christians to take a stand and make a difference. We need to make sure that we are leaving a legacy of respect for our children. Our children will learn more by what we do than what we actually say. What are we showing them? Are we giving of our time and selves to those older than us, such as our parents and grandparents? Or are we pushing ... read more
Stop Running {a Giveaway and a Link Up}
Leaving A Legacy is hosting a giveaway for a gift certificate to Vision Forum. Vision Forum is a wonderful Christian company that sells books, homeschool materials, dvd's and more. Please take a moment to stop by the Growing Home and enter the Vision Forum $50 Gift Certificate Giveaway. How many times do you find yourself running away from a situation that you don't like, or that is uncomfortable for you? I myself do this very often. Once the pressure starts to weigh me down, I try to get out of the situation as fast as possible. Have you stopped to think that in doing this you may be missing out?Just like a rose bush remains beautiful and gets the chance to grow properly, through times of pruning, we also need the same type of circumstances in our life. If the rose bush was left ... read more
Live Each Day to the Fullest and a Giveaway
Today I have the privilege of guest posting at the Growing Home blog. Please take a moment to stop by and visit this wonderful blog and enter the Vision Forum $50 Gift Certificate Giveaway. As the sun rises each morning I want to challenge you friends to live each day to the fullest. We each have our own stories that we're living, filled with chapters of sorrows, growth, celebrations and joys. As I walk through this chapter of learning how to deal with new aspects of my cancer journey, God is challenging me to not take things for granted. We are not guaranteed tomorrow, yesterday is past, and today is all we have. Live nowhere else but in the present. Begin your days in communion with the Lord; seek His guidance for how you should live. Plan out the hours that you've been given to ... read more