by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 2, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
Motherhood. My last two weeks have been laced with very challenging days. My pre-teen is also my determined child. The mix of the two are refining me. God has used motherhood to refine me. We do not get to choose what He uses to refine us. Yet, He is the Potter with...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Aug 22, 2012 | Motherhood
I let it go. All afternoon, I kept letting them go — the snide remarks and surly comments. I offer grace to this child, so much like me. I let it go again, until this last straw, then I let go. I broke down or let it break me down. Either way, I’m down....
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 30, 2012 | Missions, Motherhood, Surrender
In the new book by Jeff Goins, Wrecked, he writes, “It’s about embracing the journey of being brokenhearted for a broken world and allowing it to shape you.” Motherhood has shaped me. In my youth I was snatched out of darkness, rescued by a God Whose...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 23, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Motherhood
I want to remember the smell of my baby’s breath and the soft contour of her toddler face, because I was there. I want to remember the ramblings of tales, and the twinkle of son’s eyes, because I saw him. I want my pre-teen beauty to have the confidence to...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 16, 2012 | Motherhood
We’d been playing dress-up and hosting pretend tea parties for quite a few years already. Sisters are 5 and 7. Then it catches his eye. The very first picture of Spiderman he ever saw, and he was undone. It took until he was 2 years old. We had no Spidermen in...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Jul 15, 2012 | Counting 1000 Gifts, Managing Life, Motherhood
I am rocking in the new summer morning, bathed in fresh rain. I am breathing in the clean air. Son is on the other rocker, nose in his iPod, playing a game. With enthusiasm about to make him burst, he erupts, “It’s my favorite game! Ooh! Ooh! Can you...
