Month: September 2014

This World Needs Brave People . . . MENTORS

Mentors: Don’t Give Up!

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I watch my daughter’s eyes beam with excitement as she runs down to the front of the church and takes a seat on the steps near the altar. She thinks it’s music time and any moment now her music teacher from VBS will start playing “her song.” I tell her it’s not music time, church is over and it’s time to go. She tugs at my shirt and grunts at me as if to tell me “You’re wrong, Mama. It’s music time!” Finally admitting defeat, she walks with me back down the church aisle and we leave. It’s Because of…

Back Story Tribe

When the Journey Turns Out Differently {Plus an Exciting Announcement}

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I have a little story to share with you. Well, it’s a pretty big story actually. See, when I launched More to Be in 2011, the plan was to really create an online filing cabinet for all the resources I’d been using in my real life of mentoring teen girls. As a graphic designer I had the skill to build a site and as a stay-at-home mom I could squeeze in ministry hours during nap time. So with much prayer and the support of my family as well as a team of advisers, More to Be launched. Back when More…

Love Personified

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I saw the words go by as I scrolled through Pinterest. It was any other regular afternoon but, as I am apt to do, I thought I’d kill a few minutes looking at crafts, yummy foods, and quotes. Now, mind you, I don’t have time to make the craft projects and almost every food creation has turned out, well, not exactly yummy … but the quotes never disappoint me. Soon after I turn the final page on paper books or ebooks, I pause and then open my quote book and begin to transfer over in black ink the words that…

A Prayer

Praying the Hard Prayers

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From the time she was able to speak, her opinions on life where black-and-white, right and wrong, good and bad. In many ways, she reminded me of a Pharisee who’d yet to encounter the fullness of God’s grace. She was a rules girl, bent on staying within the safety zone, both in terms of our parenting and in light of what she knew of the Bible. It made being her mom pretty easy, but also secretly heartbreaking. Yes, she might always be the good girl. That was alarming for me, a recovering good girl — minus those ten years of…

Why you should talk to your daughter about Fifty Shades

Why You Should Talk to Your Daughter about Fifty Shades of Grey

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By this point, you’ve probably heard of the best-selling erotica book, Fifty Shades of Grey that was published in 2011. It has been called the new “mommy porn” because of its popularity among moms. However, today I don’t want to talk about its effects on moms. I want to talk about its effect on your daughter and why you should talk to your daughter about Fifty Shades of Grey.   In February 2015, a movie based on Fifty Shades of Grey will be released in theaters. If your daughter isn’t determined enough to read the 530 page book, she may be more apt to sit through the, presumably jaw-dropping, two-plus…

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