I would like to say that I pray every night with Turner, but I miss some nights here and there. The effort is there, but sometimes I still fail. His prayers are what you might expect from a little boy. They are short and are for those things he is thinking of right then. Every so often, he throws a wonderfully heart-felt request into the prayer, and I try to really cover him with praise for those. Over the last few days, though, I have had the privilege of praying with Mary Carol two nights. If you know her at all, you know she is all heart. I have never…

Do you ever feel frustrated? Do you ever feel like you know there are certain things you would love to be doing, but you just can’t get to it? Often the everyday, the menial, and the ordinary takes so much of our time that we fail to get to our dreams, our visions, or even just our long-term goals. Homemakers struggle with this so much, because they are raising little children who require so much time and energy. Then there is the laundry, the grocery run, cooking meals, cleaning the house, and so on. It never truly seems to end, and all of it seems to be just “regular” stuff.…