At the beginning of the year I shared with you the ministry transition that Mark and I felt God leading us to make. Mark resigned from his pastoral ministry and we are now speaking, writing, and encouraging families through Hearts at Home full-time….with a...
After adopting Kolya at the age of 9, we soon realized this young man thrived with a hammer in his hand. He loved anything to do with creating, fixing, or building.We also discovered several years ago this same boy loves to fish. Everytime we’d go to...
Several years ago Mark and I were introduced to a great marriage book by Emerson Eggerichs called Love and Respect. This book transformed our thinking in many ways. The book Love and Respect is based upon the Bible verse from Ephesians 5:33 which says,...
We’ve been tuning up some of the pages on my blog today. So if you receive my blog updates by email, just ignore any out of the ordinary posts, such as “Request Jill As A Speaker.” Thanks for your patience!
“Think before you speak! Don’t make demands you don’t intend to...
Calling all those who have lived through the newborn stage! What words of wisdom can you share with a new mom and dad who’s little one is so good during the day but has a crying spell of several hours somewhere around midnight each night? Little Rilyn...
A couple of weeks ago I sat in a concert watching my 23-year-old son’s band make beautiful music. I leaned over to the mom sitting next to me (whose son was playing guitar in the band) and said, “Wow, this makes all those music lessons worth it,...
About a month before little Rilyn was born, I spent the weekend with Anne with the goal of helping her finish up the nursery. Once we had everything in it’s place, she looked at the white walls and said, “Mom, we can’t spend a dime making this room look warm and...
When Mark and I found ourselves sitting in a counselor’s office around year 7, we found that we’d made a very big mistake. We’d put our kids before our marriage. We also learned this was no more healthy for our marriage than it was for...
“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much...
