By Jessica Wolstenholm
These past few months have been a doozy, haven’t they? Activities have been canceled, for most of us school was mandated to be done from home, sports were suspended . . . and if you are the parent of a girl, chances are these changes have hit her hard. Girls are relational by nature, so […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
We don’t often think about the air around us or the breaths we take. Breathing is an unconscious action that keeps us healthy and alive, but God, who’s planned all of our days (Psalm 139:16), is also responsible for the breath in our lungs (Job 33:4, Genesis 2:7). You might not associate air with God, […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 (NLT) In our current culture, it seems as though we need to crawl in a hole and hide from the world in order to avoid negativity and conflict. As parents, we try to […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
With each baby giggle and infant smile, we dream about the joy our little ones will carry with them through life. Then they become toddlers and their human nature begins to rear its ugly tantrum-throwing head. As they grow through preschool and learn the art of sharing and caring, we catch glimpses of kindness and […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
“And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.’” Luke 10:27 (ESV) At Minno, we believe we are to be actively engaged in bringing God’s goodness and love to our […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
There are dozens of Bible verses that mention water, and water can symbolize many things in the Bible. Water, like from a spring or a well, often symbolizes refreshment and the meeting of our needs (Matthew 10:42, Psalm 23:2, John 7:37, John 4:7), and clean water often represents purity and forgiveness (Ezekiel 36:25, Ephesians 5:26), […]
By Melanie Rainer
Have fear and anxiety ramped up in your home during safer-at-home orders, canceled school, and scary news stories about living through a global pandemic? Scripture tells us over and over to not fear and to trust God, but kids are concrete thinkers and can struggle to regulate their emotions, especially out-of-control fear that they often […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Promote peace at home with simple strategies that prove—peace is not the absence of crazy but the ability to find calm in the midst of the chaos. In my older age (I’m over 40 now), I find I crave peace. But as a busy mom, peace is hard to come by. My dear friend Joanne […]
By Melanie Rainer
Use this life skills for kids checklist to fill your summer with intentional growth opportunities! Have you and your kids suddenly found yourselves at home a lot more? Our collective Coronavirus Summer is upon us, and you may be staring down an empty calendar for the next three months wondering “what can we do?” Camps […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dangerous trend taking over today’s families. So driven by FOMO (fear of missing out, or for parents, fear of our kids missing out), we were over-scheduling and over-committing our lives so our children didn’t miss out on anything that might possibly bring them joy. The irony is, by […]