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Love Lessons for Moms

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February is for Love For me, the month of February represents all things love – love of God, love of self, love of family, love of a significant other, love of community, and love of people. Love makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Real love nurtures, sustains, covers, and creates space for vulnerability and faults. And, love is the currency of motherhood. Love Lessons for Mom Your identity exists beyond your role as mom – As mothers, many of us deem parenting our life’s greatest work and our children as our most significant contribution to the […]

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MLK 2020: A Dream Deferred?

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Today, Monday, January 21, 2020, we honor and celebrate the life and legacy of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr – a man who, along with other civil rights heroes, shouldered the weight of the fight for racial injustice and equality for black people in America; a man who championed love over hatred, freedom over oppression, and peace over violence; and a man whose life was brutally stolen when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel at the tender age of 39. His words so eloquently spoken some 55+ years ago ring as true today as they did […]

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What’s Your Word?

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The Word Collector One of my favorite new children’s books is The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds, a delightful tale of a young boy named Jerome who discovers his love of words. An avid collector, Jerome begins collecting all manner of words, long and short, colorful and musical, and those that dance off your tongue or rumble in your belly. Like Jerome, I have gathered my own repertoire of words over the years; words that encourage and inspire and ones that perfectly capture my mood and keenly express the complexity of my thoughts. Now that the new year and […]

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Rooted in the Word: Back-to- School Scriptures for the Kids

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Here’s Comes August Now only a few weeks away, the month of August is always an exciting one in the Cox home. We celebrate three birthdays, my two girls and my husband, and the new school year begins. This year our baby girl starts big kid school, the last run of kindergarten for our brood. Cue the tears. We also have a third grader and a seasoned middle schooler who is starting seventh grade. Our children spend the bulk of their day at school, learning new material and mastering new skills. They also face real challenges, from bullies to academic […]

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STOP Mommy Shaming

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Nobody’s Safe On the playgrounds, at the local Target, in your schools – nowhere feels safe. Mommy-shamers and internet trolls are watching, lurking, and judging. These shamers come for both regular and celebrity moms. The Kardashian sisters are particularly popular. Moms blasted Kourtney Kardashian because her son, Reign, wears his hair long. They bad-mouthed Khloe Kardashian when her infant daughter, True, was photographed playing in an ultra-expensive Birkin bag. Kim Kardashian let her oldest daughter, North, wear lipstick for holiday family photos, and the trolls unleased their fury. Then there was Carrie Underwood who was roasted for wearing a full […]

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Leveling Up in 2019 with Powerful Words

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My love of words I fell in love with words as a child. Though I no longer recall the day, the memory remains permanently etched in the recesses of my mind. To honor my birth as his first child, my father penned a beautiful poem entitled, “My Little Lee-Lee.” I remember listening as he read each word, completely enamored. A few years later I was able to read them for myself. That my father had crafted such a delightful ode for his baby girl using a series of words strung together just so cultivated my love for language and the […]

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