Here are some worthwhile reads I wanted to pass on to you today!  Enjoy!

I love this article that emphasizes what our goal should be as we build our homes: “Lord help me to build the kind of home where all who enter find it ‘impossible to keep from thinking of God.’”  Read the whole thing here.

This is a great reminder about technology (and its uses and downfalls).  “…Community—the rich kind, the transforming kind, the valuable and difficult kind—doesn’t happen in partial truths and well-edited photo collections on Instagram. Community happens when we hear each other’s actual voices, when we enter one another’s actual homes, with actual messes, around actual tables telling stories that ramble on beyond 140 pithy characters.”  Read all of the post here.

If you’re feeling like motherhood is only hard all the time, this post should encourage you.  “Right now, what matters most is training those little hearts for the Lord. That’s it. Love them and nurture them and train them. That’s what has Eternal value.”  Read the rest here.

This is a sweet post about a mother’s influence on her son’s spiritual formation.  “You need to realize that your child’s spiritual life is not the church’s responsibility, but yours. We are there to help you do your job as a parent. See, your primary job as a parent is not to make sure that your kid gets on the right sports team, or the right college, or has a ‘successful life,’ or is even ‘happy.’ Your primary job is, by implicit example and explicit instruction, to point your child to Christ in all that you do.”  Read all of it here.

I loved this post on Lies Ministry Wives Believe. “As a pastor’s wife, I find myself fighting the same old internal battles that have plagued me from year one, only now I recognize them more quickly and have tools to combat them.”  Read the whole post here.