20 Reasons Your Home Matters

By Barbara Rainey | September 9, 2024 | 5 Comments

Each of you woke this morning in your version of home: a two-story townhome, a one-level ranch, a fixer-upper, an urban high-rise, a studio apartment. Whatever it might look like to you, it’s a place called home for everyone living there. Here are 20 reasons that the work you do within those walls—morning after morning, […]

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Your Home Matters … Even When It Feels Chaotic

By Barbara Rainey | August 26, 2024 | 9 Comments

Do you wish your home were more peaceful? I sure did when all six of my kids lived at home. Even when only two were left, it still wasn’t peaceful the way I wanted it to be. You see I wanted everyone to get along and like each other. All. The. Time. I wanted an […]

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When Your Home Doesn’t Look Like What You Want

By Barbara Rainey | August 19, 2024 | 8 Comments

  Do you know there are children who have lived all their lives in gutters, in sewer pipes, or other unimaginable places? Children who sleep on cardboard, who sniff glue to numb their pain, who never cry, who fear anyone who tries to help because they have learned to trust no one? A doctor who has worked […]

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When Kids Ask Too Many Questions

By Barbara Rainey | October 18, 2021 | 0 Comments

  “What is hair made from?” “Do lizards go to heaven?” “Why do we stop at red lights?” “Who’s your mom’s mom?” “Why do I have to tell Jesus what I did wrong when He already knows?” In our house with six kids, a menagerie of outside pets, and two often exhausted parents, our kids’ […]

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The Value of Together

By Barbara Rainey | September 27, 2021 | 5 Comments

  Have you ever wondered where you belong? Looked for a place to fit in? Felt all alone right in the middle of all your people? It’s okay. I have too. We all have. Together matters even when we don’t feel the connections as we’d like. Home matters, too, because that’s where belonging begins. You’ve […]

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