We take one scroll down social media, and memes read, “moms need our wine.”

We take one trip to Walmart and a shirt will shout, “I haven’t had my coffee yet!”

We walk into one grocery store and the marketing whispers, “you can’t get by without chocolate.”

But the truth is, I don’t need my chocolate. Yo...

When did it become noble to say, “I’m doing it for me?”

When did it become wrong to do something for someone else - to do something for no other reason, than that it brings someone you love joy?

“I’m doing it for myself. I’m doing it because it makes me feel better. I’m doing it it for me.”

Somehow is ...

I listen to advice, but I don’t listen to foreboding doom.

I listen to women sharing how to avoid my children coming between me and my marriage. I don’t listen to negative voices saying, “it will never be the same.”

I listen to child training perspectives. I don’t listen to bitterness saying, “just wa...

I don’t want my parenting to twist morality with complete surrender.

To raise my children to believe if they turn the other cheek and go the extra mile or link any number of proverbial truths they will somehow earn forgiveness and approval.

It’s a gift.

I don’t want my children to ask, “...

Hello! It’s 2022 and my name is Elisha Peter Voetberg. (Just figured we should start with the facts.) You are all probably much more familiar and acquainted with my beautiful wife, Katie Joy seeing that she has been the prominent face and voice on this platform over the last five years.

She has ...

When we degrade Motherhood to being a “job” we limit it to being a binding chore. One we show up to every day because we have to.

One that will never quite make sense because while we render it synonymous with a profession, we don’t get benefits or pay.

When we try to argue it worthwhile by ...

Today love is two pull-ups and two diapers at bedtime. Love is late nights and early mornings. Love is taking it one day at a time. Love is crying for no reason and being held. Love is holding hands in the dark without words, just thoughts.

Some days love is a romantic dinner. Love is a weekend ...

More work, more money. Maybe One day they’ll know that’s what people do on Monday.

More trips, more toys. Maybe one day they’ll know how much they bring me joy.

More study, more books. Maybe one day they’ll know this is how my love looks.

Brush them off, send them outside. Maybe One day ...

I want my family to see the highlight reel, not unfamiliar eyes.

I want to be the mother that smiles more at home than she does in pictures.

I want the moment to be more special if you were there in person.

I want our home to be more peaceful than it looks in a little square.

I want ...

The simplicity of his Theology is convicting.

His confidence in sharing with every neighbor that God will forgive their sins if they will trust in Jesus.

His boldness—not stopping at love, but continuing to say that if you don’t believe in God there is a place called, “hell.”

His determi...