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Stepmoms face crazy dynamics in their blended families. We’re here to help you stay sane. Get expert advice, practical tips, and biblical wisdom to give you the hope, help, and encouragement needed to flourish in your God-given role.

Face Like Flint: Staying Consistent in Blended-Family Fickleness

Cheryl Shumake

Jan 28
9 min

Face Like Flint: Staying Consistent in Blended-Family Fickleness

My husband and I were recently speaking with my bonus daughter. We've been doing a lot of that lately as she is preparing for the birth...

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Inside Out: Stepmoming for His Glory Not Ours

Cheryl Shumake

Oct 9, 2020
1 min

Inside Out: Stepmoming for His Glory Not Ours

For whom are you doing it? What's the measurement for determining success? Failure? If it's not "Well done" then perhaps it's time for a...

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Cheryl Shumake

Sep 18, 2020
4 min

It's Not Easy Being Green

Jealousy is more than insecurity. It's an infection that eats you from the inside out.

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Cheryl Shumake

Jul 2, 2020
1 min

Traveling Light

The same Jesus who invited you to exchange His easy yoke for your heavy burden, beckons you now to know the freedom of forgiving.

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Apr 18, 2020
4 min

Emotional Budgeting: 4 Line Items We Can No Longer Afford

In other words life is too short to continuously operate at an emotional loss. There are some things we can no longer afford.

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Apr 11, 2020
5 min

Surviving Success

For every 50 believers in Christ who overcome adversity there’s only one who overcomes Success.

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Apr 8, 2020
3 min

Riding the Wave: Finding Peace When Life See-Saws

When you’re a person a lot of people turn to, you can sometimes feel like you have no place to go.

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Apr 6, 2020
4 min

An Inconvenient Grace (or How a Black Girl Wrestled with God in a Parking Lot)

I’m not naively advocating for a passive response to racism. And neither, I might add, does the Word of God.

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Apr 6, 2020
4 min

Receiving Forgiveness

God’s nature is calibrated for holiness. Compared to His Light, any dimming of righteousness is utter darkness. Not dusky, dawn-ish, or gra

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Apr 1, 2020
2 min

Why I Started Stepmom Sanity: It’s All For You

I was looking for stepmom resources and found very little. What I did find was helpful, but I wanted more than a book. I wanted you.

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Face Like Flint: Staying Consistent in Blended-Family Fickleness

Inside Out: Stepmoming for His Glory Not Ours

It's Not Easy Being Green

Traveling Light

Emotional Budgeting: 4 Line Items We Can No Longer Afford

Surviving Success

Riding the Wave: Finding Peace When Life See-Saws

An Inconvenient Grace (or How a Black Girl Wrestled with God in a Parking Lot)

Receiving Forgiveness

Why I Started Stepmom Sanity: It’s All For You

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