Tara Dovenbarger

EXPECTANT:  40 Devotions for New and Expectant Moms  An interview with author Julie Sanders   Tell us what we can expect from EXPECTANT. EXPECTANT is a collection of 40 devotions for new and expectant moms that uses transparent stories and biblical truth to offer hope and wisdom to women transitioning into motherhood. If you have… [Continue Reading]

…Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…..James 4:8 I admit it…we own goats.  There.  I said it.  I love makeup, teapots, fun shoes, fancy things….and goats.  I grew up in the huge city of Phoenix, and now live on a small hobby farm in East Tennessee.  I appreciate the slower pace,… [Continue Reading]

This isn’t part of Cinderella’s happily ever after… …or in any other fairy tale I’ve read.  The prince and princess who  overcome every obstacle,  finally swept together in rapturous “love”, then wham.  Every force available in the kingdom seems to shove them apart. The prince works a stressful fifty-plus hour work week, travels, leaves before the… [Continue Reading]

I felt helpless laying flat on the table, doctors talking in hushed whispers as they hovered around me.  I gripped on to my husband’s quivering hand as he sat and sobbed.   As the ultrasound wand circled my swollen belly I felt like a lab-rat being inspected from the inside out. The pictures on the… [Continue Reading]

Lynnie’s eyes rolled back in her head as she struggled to keep her head from falling back. I knew from her greyish face that her blood sugar dropped dangerously low from simply playing outside. Time stopped as I sprinted towards our medical drawer for her emergency glucose. The moment my frantic fingers slammed the drawer… [Continue Reading]

  Psalm 40 I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me and heard my cry, He brought me out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of… [Continue Reading]

Fostering children is dear to my heart.  Way back in 2003, we felt the Lord leading our family to the ministry of foster care.  I was scared.  My children were very young at the time, only three and four years old.  I was afraid of hurting them, along with all the other unknowns.  My husband… [Continue Reading]

The day my husband’s struggle with porn came to light, a new, unwanted battle twisted to life inside me. The wicked pictures that once held my husband hostage now try to shove me under their suffocating wake. Each moment of the day painful reminders of my husband’s unfaithfulness surface through: Billboards along the roads flaunting… [Continue Reading]

The evil from the outside world poured painfully into my unsuspecting home. Finding porn on our family computer plunged me deep into despair.  How could this happen in a “Christian” home? Salvaging my marriage along with caring for three young children during the suffocating pain seemed impossible.  I no longer wanted to be a mom… [Continue Reading]

  LOOKS SAFE Six legs dashed across the rust-colored lawn as cheerful voices rang through the fall air. Each boy paused briefly before hiking himself over the wooden fence that encircled the drowsy farm animals. Plopping down on the other side, each youngster shot out with open arms towards a different animal standing wide-eyed in… [Continue Reading]

    The M.O.M team was able to share their vision today on Lisa Shaw’s radio ministry! I hope you take a moment and listen to what God is doing and be encouraged as I was. Thank you Lisa! Listen to internet radio with CWA Radio on Blog Talk Radio

“Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength for the journey that still lies ahead.”  -Frederick Buechner Are you on the path of sorting through your loss?  If so, I wanted to share some of my favorite books to help you on your journey.… [Continue Reading]