by Michelle C. Martin | Apr 3, 2023 | Baptism Prep, Family Life, Parenting, Society
As a child, one of my favorite movies was Sleeping Beauty. A sweet, simple, beautiful girl who could talk to animals, was beloved by a man the first time he saw her, and got to be rescued and live happily ever after was exactly who 5-year-old Michelle wanted to be. As...
by Patrick Hernandez | Jan 23, 2023 | Family Life, Parenting, Questions, Society
Society loves to tell us how to parent our children. But its definition of “love” couldn’t be further from what scripture teaches us. What is love? One Saturday morning when I put on Nickelodeon for my kids, I saw a commercial that could be summed up...
by Michelle C. Martin | Jan 9, 2023 | Family Life, Health, Marriage, Parenting, Society
Recently I stumbled across a “suggested for you” page on Facebook. It was some obscure Mommy Blog site featuring a long poem about a young mother’s struggles. Specially, how hard her life was because her baby was a scream machine and her husband was a useless oaf....
by Michelle C. Martin | Dec 13, 2022 | Church, Family Life, Marriage, Marriage Prep, Society, Teachings
Most people aren’t discussing motherhood in college. During my engagement to Joshua, I worked as a resident advisor in a dorm at Texas Tech. You work with a lot of diverse people when you’re employed by student housing on a large college campus. And I remember...
by Michelle C. Martin | Dec 9, 2022 | Baptism Prep, Church, Family Life, Marriage, Parenting, Prayer, Spirituality
The other day, I went to confession for the first time in four months. It’s been difficult to go to confession since my son has been born. Really, it’s just hard to do anything when I can’t predict how long it will take. Something about waiting in line in the church...
