This post won't be a very popular one, and that is ok; the truth usually is not that popular... After attending my church's "All In " women's conference   in April, I have repeatedly been brought back to Isaiah chapter 3. Mary Kassian spoke on a segment at the conference entitled Sending out an S.O.S. In which she discussed how applicable this specific chapter and situation is to today's society. What I am discussing here is a mixture of her lecture, and my own understanding of the information. Specifically I want to touch on her portion entitled the " Woes for Women".   We are facing these very woes addressed in Isaiah today, and God is warning us what happens when we don't head His S.O.S for us. Ladies I feel now more than ever, we are at war for our womanhood. Not the "girl power" " I am alpha woman" garbage we are fed via media, and the world trends, but the true role of woman as God designed us. Female and male ...

Five years. Today marks five whole, wild, funny, sad, happy crazy years of being a mom. While that is not substantial time in the eyes of some, I feel like it makes me pretty well seasoned. Three of those five years, I have been a mom to two sassy girls. I was looking back on some journal entries from before I had my first daughter, and was reflecting on how different reality is from the fantasy world we dream up before we actually become a parent. Below is a list of just a few items "pre-mom" Amber said her child would never do, but that since having kids my mind has changed on. 1."My kid will never sleep with me": I did pretty good at first, but then ....well I got tired, and she went from the bassinet , to the bed and she stayed in the bed for almost two years. Go ahead gasp, judge me whatever, but honestly I loved those quiet sweet moments watching her sleep, smelling her fresh from the bath little baby skin, feeling her little body snuggle mine. Somet...