by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 15, 2014 | Making a Home, Motherhood
I would dread waking up. Many mornings of making a home, this is how it went. My husband who would already be at work, would ask through the phone, “What are you doing today?” I would reply, “School and housework. Same old — same old.” Those words would drop...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 12, 2014 | Making a Home, Motherhood
It’s my default to find fault. I’m an expert, actually. My mind hyper-focuses on the flaws. However, viewing blemishes through negative eyes spoils the hope of finding any grace and beauty in what I see. See differently…Yes. When I walk through the house and see...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 8, 2014 | Making a Home
I tell this story with all the mamas in mind who think they are failures, because they may not have learned how to make a home. Maybe the dream you have for your own family and home-life is different than the one you experienced growing up, and you have had to learn...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 5, 2014 | Making a Home, Surrender
I lived behind self-built, fortified walls of security erected in fear — closed-hearted, closed handed, closed-doored. I would tell God, “I love you, but not your people.” I’d keep people out of my life and out of my home. I was okay living...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Aug 14, 2014 | Making a Home, Missions, Motherhood
When I was four months pregnant with my third child, a young, single, childless woman said to my face, “I heard you were pregnant again. What are you thinking? Don’t you want to do something with your life?” She had clout — influence among the...
