1500) “Mean” Parents

By Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) in If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What am I Doing in the Pits?, 1978.  Bombeck wrote about homemaking, motherhood, and marriage.  Her syndicated column,…

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1494) So Soon

"When Did I Become the Mother and the Mother Become the Child?" by housewife, mother, and author Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), from her 1971 book If Life is a Bowl of…

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1422) Check Out These Lingerie Ads

By Eric Metaxas, on Breakpoint Daily, March 2, 2017 at:  www.breakpoint.org ----------------------      When it comes to lingerie companies, we’ve gotten used to some pretty graphic ads.  You know…

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1257) A Grandfather’s Love

Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Moody and grandchildren ----------------- From The One Year Christian History, by E. Michael and Sharon Rusten, 2003, pages 670-1.      Dwight Lyman Moody, (1837-1899),…

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1177) The Grace of Grandparenting

By guest writer, Erin Wyble Newcomb, in an article posted June 16, 2016 at www.christianity.com/women.  Newcomb teaches English and women's studies and lives in the Hudson Valley with her husabnd…

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1175) She’s Perfect

One year after her baby Emeryson was born, Courtney Baker wrote a letter to her prenatal specialist who suggested repeatedly that she should have an abortion.  Emeryson was diagnosed prenatally…

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1174) Ordinary Moms, Everyday Heroes

By Amy Julia Becker, author of Small Talk: Learning from My Children about What Matters Most, Zondervan, 2014.  This article was posted at www.christianitytoday.com on Mother's Day, 2015. --------------  …

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