My suitcase is out, staring at me like I should be packing it. Because I should be. And I will. But not yet. Departure for the other side of the world is Sunday, so I’ve got lots of time … 🙂 Until then, I’m traveling around to two of my favorite mom blogs, The MOM In
itiative (where I am so blessed to be part of the team) and The MOB Society (where I am blessed to be a friend). I wish I could take you with me to the other side of the world! But there’s this one bag, 50 lb weight limit thing … and Jeff is my travel partner this time. We are excited to be speaking at a conference and then heading to another country in the region to be with a partner family we have never visited before.
Today I’m posting at The MOM Initiative about When Mom’s Words Hurt and some special insight into raising sons. Here’s a glimpse:
Six words. Only six words, but they flew out of my mouth to the heart of my son before I could capture them and lock them away where the sun doesn’t shine. I was immediately sorry and saw the look of injury on his face. I wanted to take the words back, but they escaped, never to be taken back. Sometimes moms say hurtful things we can’t take back. What’s a mom to do when we regret words we say to our own?      READ MORE ...
I’m also posting at The MOB Society (That stands for Mothers of Boys), and I’m so excited to be there. I was invited to guest post by Brooke McGlothlin and her team of passionate MOBs who write about raising sons. I’m writing about Guarding the Delicate Dignity. Here’s a glimpse:
Laughter rippled across the room and grew into a wave, wafting through barred windows and past palm trees. My boy shrunk tight in his space, clenching fists, flashing looks of embarrassment under wet eye lashes. It was not the welcome a mom expects for her small son, this stripping of dignity. In my heart I murmured objections Godward. READ MORE …
There’s a definite theme in these two posts today, and I actually think it applies to boys and to men who were once boys. Just because you don’t have a boy-son, don’t let that stop you from reading about raising sons! I believe God has given women a divine commission to lift up the boys, young men, and men around us.
I hope today’s posts might inspire us as women to use our words to encourage the boys and men in our lives.
