Finding Financial Freedom: A Guest Post
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 28/07/2024Friend, if you find yourself in a seemingly impossible financial situation today, I see you. My heart breaks for you. I pray you release your finances and your hopelessness to God today, you seek guidance from an expert to help you create a plan, and you can learn the same financial intelligence I learned. There is light at the end of the tunnel, I promise.
Father's Day for the Divorced Mom
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 14/06/2023Last year for Mother’s Day, my daughter, Kate found these adorable and cheeky Avocado-themed dish towels for me and a giant coffee mug declaring I’m the World’s Greatest Mom. This year, she cross-stiched a kitchen towel for me (she’s an old soul in a teenage body) and bought me some Lily’s chocolate bars (because Keto!). These gifts stick in my mind because she picked them out, she bought them, and she was so proud of them. They were special because her biological father and I have not been together for five years, and that meant there was no dad helping her pick out gifts or paying for those gifts for several years. I learned during those first couple of years that Mother’s Day can feel very different when you’re a divorced/single mom. Father’s Day is almost here, and I want to take a few minutes to have a heart-to-heart with my divorced friends with kids. I see you. When you’re divorced with children (of any age), holidays can absolutely bring about scheduling nightmares–even when you have a clearly written parenting agreement, a myriad of emotions, and tremendous unrest. While I wish I could fix all those things for you, I know I can’t. However, after living that life for a few years and attempting to be healthy and healed, I’m going to attempt today to help you approach these holidays differently and maybe give you some peace.
How to Survive Divorce and Still Love Jesus: The Ex (2)
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 01/12/2022The best thing you can do when dealing with your ex is to seek God and his kingdom first (Matthew 6:33). When I’m practicing the pause, I’m typically praying that God will give me direction and the words to say. I find it’s much more difficult to be nasty to my ex after I’ve spent some time being still and listening to God in these situations.
How to Survive Divorce and Still Love Jesus: The Ex
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 21/11/2022Let me just say this before I go on: everyone’s situation is different. The majority of my friends are divorced, and most of them remarried. All their situations are vastly different, and all of their exes are as well. It would be unrealistic to think I could give you a formula that will work for every situation, but let me do my best to offer some practical and Jesus-centered advice that has helped me. I hate to even start with this one because some of you might quit reading right here, but, honestly, this is the best way I have found to deal with my ex: Treat them like you want to be treated.
