anxiety

Are You Worried About Your Daily Bread?

March 15, 2013 Devotional Mundane
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by Melissa McDonald The whole thing was so ridiculous I could hardly take my toddler seriously. My husband and I were bringing food from the kitchen to the table when she panicked that she wouldn’t get dinner. I hollered over my shoulder, “Don’t worry sweetheart, we’ll bring you food.” My daughter burst into tears. “I [...]

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How God frees us to love him more than money

January 19, 2012 Devotional Mundane
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by Gloria Furman “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Hebrews 13:5). Here the writer of Hebrews connects contentment with God’s presence. This is incredible. When I catch my heart getting whisked away in a [...]

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The Gospel and Separation Anxiety

September 21, 2011 Intentional Motherhood
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by Gloria Furman My baby crawls. Judson has officially entered the stage where I’ll be challenged to keep track of his whereabouts. Lucky for me, he leaves a telltale snail’s trail of drool everywhere he goes. And he verbalizes his stream of consciousness with gusto. With the advent of this new skill came the onset [...]

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What to do if you can’t see Him

July 5, 2011 Devotional Mundane
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by Gloria Furman Someone snapped this photo of me and my oldest child at the hospital. Aliza had slipped on the tile floor and split her chin open– 3 stitches and 1 big lollipop later she was just fine. The ordeal of her getting the actual stitches, however, was quite dramatic. She let everyone in [...]

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Talk to yourself

June 28, 2011 Devotional Mundane
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by Gloria Furman When my daughter turned 2 she began talking to imaginary friends. We thought it was cute. It would have been different had she been talking to herself. I would have thought it was odd. But the Psalmist talks to himself in Psalm 42:5, “Why are you downcast, o my soul, and why [...]

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