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Guest Post: If This is a Tough Mother’s Day – Remember: It Can Still Be Well with Your Soul

By: Christy Cabe

I remember the somber voices singing at my mother’s funeral.

I sat beside my dad, near the front of the church, as the crowd behind us led and echoed the chorus of the hymn “It Is Well.”

It Is Well

It Is Well

With My Soul

With My Soul

And though I was a child, a fifth-grade girl sitting in shock and grief near her mother’s casket, I understood.

Deep down, I knew it was true.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: family, mothers May 8, 2020 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Raising Boys to Become Godly Young Men

Masculinity is in crisis. Numerous studies show it. Boys are struggling to mature into competent young men, and men and fathers in general are often dismissed, or denigrated, in the culture.

Even when criticism is justified, the solution isn’t to tear down masculinity. It’s to teach boys how to harness manhood and to channel it properly.

That’s where you come in, Mom.

For every study that shows boys are in trouble, there’s another showing that boys grow into healthy, strong, and courageous young men when they have healthy and secure attachments with their mothers.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, children, men, mothers December 19, 2019 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

New Hope for Moms Who Won’t Give Up

“I quit. I don’t want to be a mother anymore.”

Author Sarah Parshall Perry blurted that out one day in a moment of weakness while her husband was travelling for work and she was caring for three children with the stomach flu. She was exhausted after days with little sleep.

Her breaking point came as she was bathing her youngest child even though she hadn’t been able to shower herself. When she brushed against the shower curtain, and it collapsed on them both, she cried, “I quit.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, mothers, parenting October 18, 2019 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Raising Boys to Become Godly Young Men

Numerous studies show that masculinity is in crisis. Boys are struggling to mature into competent young men, and men and fathers in general are denigrated in the culture.

Even when the criticism is justified, the solution to those problems isn’tto denigrate masculinity. It’s to teach boys how to harness manhood and to channel it in proper ways.

That’s where you come in, mom.

For every study that shows boys are in trouble there’s another showing that boys grow into healthy, strong, and courageous young men when they have healthy and secure attachments with their mothers.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, men, mothers, parenting, sons June 27, 2019 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

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