In the year 2000, I was a 24-year-old teacher in Atlanta. I taught fifth-grade, and every year in the spring we presented a two-day lesson on sex education. Each fifth grade class paired up with another class. We separated the boys and girls, and one teacher taught the girls while the other teacher taught the boys. I taught the girls.
Author: Brenda Rodgers
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An Encouragement Cafe Devotional: Forgetting Your Past
“So often thoughts from our past bombard our minds without us even recognizing them enough to stop them. They come in without permission or without an invite, but they leave us with a reopened wound.”
Please read the rest of my devotional about forgetting our pasts today at Encouragement Cafe and Crosswalk.
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Why Your Daughter Needs to See You Eat
I sat next to my daughter at the dining room table as she ate her peanut butter and honey sandwich, frozen blueberries, and cheese stick. After taking a few bites she asked me, “Mommy, where’s your sandwich?” I didn’t have a sandwich on my plate. Instead I opted for a salad with goat cheese, sliced turkey, and balsamic vinegar and oil. With baby weight still to lose a salad seemed like a wiser choice.
I knew better than to tell my three-year-old daughter, “Mommy has to lose weight, so I’m just going to have a salad.” I’m not a stranger to food-related issues that start when you’re a little girl. My earliest memory of food becoming a “thing” was when I was about my daughter’s age.
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Are You Willing to Mentor a Younger, Single Woman?
When I read the words in Titus 2 I wonder, are these words meant for only mentoring married women or do all younger women need guidance and training?
“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.” (Titus 2:3-5)
Then I think back to my days as a single woman.
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The Woman You Don’t See
There’s a woman sitting in your church service or maybe serving beside you. She might be the one taking care of the babies in the nursery or doing puppet shows with the children. Maybe she’s at your work and her desk sits next to yours. Or quite possibly she’s in your family – a niece, cousin, or sister? This is the woman you don’t see even though she’s there.
And to tell you a little secret, she’s a woman who needs you.
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How Fatherhood Helped Me Be a Better Mom
When my husband and I were dating, I didn’t think much about what kind of father he would be. I should have, for sure. We can add that to the long list of “things we should have talked about before marriage.” So single friends, here’s some advice – consider your boyfriend as a father.
