Christian Women's Lifestyle Blog

by Robin Jones Gunn When my fiancé and I started making wedding plans, I had one important question that couldn’t wait. “Are you planning to wear a kilt?” His Scottish heritage ran deep, and I knew that other men in his extended clan showed up at weddings in kilts. His brother had bagpipes at his reception. I wanted to know what Ross’s vision was for our August wedding in Southern California. His reply was, “No kilt, but what do you think about having popsicles instead of

by Jenny Erlingsson I can still remember the way my daughter looked at me several years ago when we were going over letters. This particular alphabet was also a challenge to me because we were living in Iceland. So when she blinked at me and couldn’t name English and Icelandic letters a few seconds after reviewing them, I thought it was mostly because of the language difference. But as the months passed, I realized that my younger daughter was processing things differently.

by Stephanie Mack As my fortieth birthday began to beam at me from the calendar, I found myself doing what many women do in these quiet, existential moments—perhaps especially us millennials, a nostalgic bunch: Reflecting. Examining. Pondering. Not in regret, exactly, but rather curiosity. I thought almost instantly of the girl I was at twenty-one, fresh out of USC—that bright-eyed, big-dreaming bride at the altar with her college sweetheart. Then the career girl in pen