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Your Kids Aren’t Your Report Card

If an award-winning baker makes the best cake, doesn’t an award-winning Mother produce exceptional children? If I’m any good at this calling (that I’ve set every other ambition aside for), the result of my (literal) labor better prove that I’m good. This is hard for every mother (and father!) I’ve met (including myself, of course). Sometimes “Mothering” feels like most of my identity! My child’s good choice feels like an “A” on my Mom Report Card. Their suffering and sin feel like an “F”.

Liv Booth

January 6, 2026

What if I let go and something bad happens? (Am I a bad mother?)

Am I a bad mother if I let go of my kids and something bad happens? I have teens and young adults. ‘Nuff said. The wisdom I hear is that I need to let go. I “ought” to trust God. And I know that’s true, in theory. But what about when I do manage to keep my mouth shut during, let’s say, the rest of their Christmas visit, and they say things that scare me? Their ideas will lead to bad choices! If I successfully let go, am I responsible for their bad decisions?

Liv Booth

December 30, 2025

I Just Want Everyone to Be Happy! 😬

It’s Dec 12th. Time is tight. Money is crazy tight (why does it ALWAYS feel tightest this time of year??). I have three teens at home and two college-aged coming home for break. I know there’s going to be tension. Maybe an explosion. My chest feels tight. Everything feels impossible. No matter how much I do, it could all still fall apart. It could all still blow up. And I’m trying SO hard to do enough, to BE enough!

Liv Booth

December 16, 2025

All Will Be Well? Yeah, Right

“What are some of the biggest struggles you face in your spiritual life?” I asked Michelle, a kind, middle aged, woman who generously answered my impromptu “audience research” questions. She sighed deeply and said, “Feeling like there is no solid ground. I read the headlines and I worry about how the chaos in the world is going to affect the future. Especially my kids’ future. What is the world going to be like for them… for my grandchildren!” She paused, and looked me in the eye, “It’s hard to see where God is in all of this.”

Brandon Booth

December 9, 2025

Come Near, With-Us, Come Near

“Come here,” I mumble to my husband, who is already in my bed. Immanuel is with us now, and yet we cry, “O come!” O Christ, be nearer than the near you are! “Be born in us today,” says the children’s hymn. We know the theological math: He was promised. He was incarnate. He will be with us always, until the end of the age. So why do I plead, “Be near me today. I really need your help, Lord. Don’t be far away?”

Liv Booth

December 2, 2025

A Booth in a Coffee Shop

I shake my head at myself: good heavens, why am I so afraid of their opinion? Why does it feel like my validity rests on my perception of these lovely people’s perception of my perception of someone’s perception … arghh!!I just need to be anchored! I just need to know that I’m ok before I put myself out there. And then I notice the empty seat across the table, in my safe booth. I take a deep breath, and I invite Jesus to sit with me before I venture out. What would he be doing right now, as I spiral into a puddle of self-doubt?

Liv Booth

October 21, 2025

The Wrong Courtroom: Letting Jesus Determine My Identity.

We’ve been exploring the pain of broken relationships here and on our podcast for the past few weeks. When someone I love won’t talk to me, or a friend avoids me, it hurts. Especially when they won’t tell me why!I’m usually a bit obsessive about it. What are they thinking about me? I feel like I’m a defendant in a courtroom. I run scenarios in my head, rehearsing exactly what I’ll say if I can get them to listen. Sometimes I can’t sleep, lying awake guessing at their accusations, planning my counter arguments, rehearsing my story, marshaling my evidence.

Brandon Booth

October 14, 2025

Did I Just Give God Permission?

I shook my head, blew out my breath and prayed, “Ok, Lord. Your turn.” And I immediately laughed out loud. Your turn!?It’s like I had said, “Just this once, Lord, could you hold the reins? I know it’s my job to make the world go round, but I’d really appreciate an hour off from running the universe.”

Liv Booth

September 23, 2025

What on earth is God doing!?

In light of recent events, you are not alone if you feel unsettled and afraid. Things are crazy out there! What on earth is God doing? I mean like literally, what are you doing God, on the earth? ‘Cause from where I’m sitting it looks like you aren’t doing anything.

Brandon Booth

September 18, 2025

Is “Up And to The Right” Wrong?! (Success at God’s Pace!)

I am a victim of our self-obsessed “insta-culture.” I’m desperate to see the immediate fruit of my labor. I want success — whether in my career or spiritual life — and I want it, now! But the Holy Spirit offers me a different path. A path of rest and enjoyment with him!

Katie Borden

September 9, 2025

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Faith

Your Kids Aren’t Your Report Card

What if I let go and something bad happens? (Am I a bad mother?)

I Just Want Everyone to Be Happy! 😬

All Will Be Well? Yeah, Right

Come Near, With-Us, Come Near

A Booth in a Coffee Shop

The Wrong Courtroom: Letting Jesus Determine My Identity.

Did I Just Give God Permission?

What on earth is God doing!?

Is “Up And to The Right” Wrong?! (Success at God’s Pace!)