The light in my eyes dimed that cold November night as I heard the Doctor say “There is nothing more we can do to help your father, Mrs. Whitley. The truth is we need to consider hospice. Do you know how your father wishes to live out the remaining time of his life?” A knot slowly forms in my throat. […]
“But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Mark 10:6-9 ~ESV There is something to […]
“But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” ~Isa 40:31 This scripture has been a song in my heart for a few months now. The thing that has stuck out to me is the word wait. […]
It’s the Christmas season, and although it should be filled with love and laughter, it is full of turmoil, pain, or loss for many. Some of us have been wounded by a close friend or coworker. Some are suffering the loss of a loved one, while others nurse the wounds family members have bestowed upon them out of anger or […]
Have you ever heard someone say, “we will never get married once you tie the knot; your love life is dead.”? I have. I also remember feeling the same way at one time. One day I looked at my husband from across the house and felt he was a roommate and not my spouse. I had no idea how it […]
Julie Whitley is a wife and highly driven, nonstop mother of four boys. She knows the realities of being a mom at every stage of development. She is not afraid to tell it like it is while reminding every mother there is no greater gift than love.