Going through divorce is disorienting. It devastates a part of you that you didn’t know could hurt this bad. Because of the pain and disorientation, you reach for people who will reassure you of your identity, belonging, purpose and someone to tell you that you have value, attractiveness and that your ex was wrong about you. But [...]
The challenges that single moms face today can be overwhelming, which can lead to a sense of hopelessness and unfulfillment. In my own experience as a new single mom of two elementary school-age children, I honestly didn’t know what to expect from this unfamiliar parental role. My daughter was in the fourth grade and my [...]
What are your dreams and desires for your family? Think back, somewhere along the line, what kind of life did you envision for your family? Maybe you don’t know how to answer those questions. Maybe it has been a while since you thought about such things because life just keeps going at such a fast pace. Today, [...]
Did you ever re-read a familiar Bible story and have a new truth jump off the pages at you? This happened to me as I was reading the story of the Road to Emmaus in Luke 24:13-32. Let me briefly summarize the story if you are unfamiliar with it. After Jesus’ crucifixion, two unnamed followers [...]
I have always loved the holiday season. I love Christmas gatherings and special holiday music at church and hosting holiday parties and sipping hot cocoa. I love gift-giving and decorating the house for the holidays. Most of all, I love that the Christmas season is an intentional time to more deeply reflect on the birth [...]
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's are just around the corner! Many people will experience enormous pressure to overspend, max out credit cards, use buy-now-pay-later financing, take out personal loans, or succumb to payday loans in an effort to please others or fill their empty hearts. I know because I once lived through that feeling of [...]
Linda was raised in a loving Christian home. Her parents were both very involved in their church. She had always gone to Sunday school, vacation Bible school, youth group, and camps. Pretty much whatever the church had to offer, she was there. Everything seemed to be just as it should be in Linda’s life.As a [...]
Early in our marriage, my wife, Ann, worked with a remarkable single mom. She immigrated to the United States with her former husband who was a soldier at the time. Shortly after they arrived in this nation, which was very foreign to her, she delivered their child, and he exited their lives. She found herself [...]
Finding Happiness as a Single MomThe endless demands of changing diapers, working two jobs, juggling parenthood and sisterhood, the piles of dirty clothes and laundry, balancing countless balls in the air….the weight seems too much to bear sometimes, doesn’t it? If we aren’t careful, we find ourselves longing for the next season. We think about [...]
Let’s get the elephant out of the room right away and admit that a spending plan is pretty much the same thing as a budget. Many people have bad connotations of the word budget. “Budget” often makes people feel scarcity - that a budget is telling them what they can’t do and placing limits on [...]
Welcome to Unstuck Ministries
Have you heard? The Life of a Single Mom® is now UNSTUCK MINISTRIES! While we will remain one of the nation's largest providers of single mom curriculum and services, we have expanded new programs to ALL women! Check out our new website and social media for all the details! And welcome to Unstuck Ministries - where bound women become free!
