When You Feel Like the Wrong Mom for the Job (God’s Grace for Moms)
Seasons of motherhood change… and it’s not always seamless. Thankfully, God offers grace for moms no matter the struggle.
3 Steps to Take When You’ve Lost Hope in God
Sometimes we hear stories-testimonies-that give us pause. In this post, Jaime is sharing three steps to take when you’ve lost hope in God…
How to Engage in Spiritual Warfare and Emerge Victorious
In this post, Jaime Hampton gets candid about how to engage in spiritual warfare, the lies she’s believed about it, and how she’s become victorious in this area.
5 Steps to Silencing Your Inner Critic
I don’t know about you, but I have a very loud Inner Critic. She doesn’t let me get away with much without speaking (or shouting) accusations and condemnation regarding mistakes I’ve made or things I’ve failed to accomplish. I know sometimes she is fueled by Satan’s lies, but there’s also a healthy dose of my…
Not-So-Super Woman
You might already know that my name is spelled a little differently. The most common spelling is J-a-m-i-e, while mine is spelled J-a-i-m-e (I’ve been known to be confused with a Hispanic male by people I correspond with in writing only!). What you probably don’t know is that my mother chose to spell my name…
Less is More: Lessons from an apple Tree
We have several beautiful apple trees in our yard, but one is our favorite. It produces crispy, tart-yet-sweet apples in abundance each year. They’re great to eat, to use in baking, to make applesauce or to juice for cider. But in the last couple of years our favorite tree has had issues: it produces way…
Believing in God for Big Things
Believing in God for Big Things by Jaime Hampton Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. Psalm 145:3 (NIV) If you’re a beach person (or were when you were a kid, like me), you know how it works: you stand in the water, talking with other people…
4 Steps for When You’re Bored with Prayer
Want to know a secret? Sometimes I struggle with feeling like prayer is boring. It almost seems blasphemous, and at the very least doesn’t feel like something a good Christian girl should say. I co-host a podcast about prayer, so prayer is obviously something I feel passionate about. But although I have seasons in my…
Shifting my perspective on praying for my kids
We recently lost a beloved family pet. He was a bearded dragon named Chewbacca, “Chewie” for short, after the Star Wars character. He wasn’t hairy and didn’t make any cool noises like his namesake, but he was a lot of fun. The kids made obstacle courses for him, carried him around on their shoulders and…
3 Easy Steps to Kick Frustration to the Curb
Recently we’ve had some much-needed rain that lasted many days. But just before the rain had started our oldest child mowed half of the lawn. Unfortunately for our next door neighbors it was the half by the street, not the half closest to their yard. I felt pretty bad about it as the rain stretched…
What to Do When You Don’t Know How to Pray
I don’t remember the day of the week or the time of year, but what I do remember is the stark contrast of the moment. On one hand, there was the clear blue sky, the gentle breeze tag-teaming with the sun to warm my skin to just the perfect temperature. Any other day it might…
3 Truths I’m Learning About Spiritual Warfare
Recently we led a 24 week study on the book of Ephesians, and through that study God opened my eyes to three truths about spiritual warfare that might seem pretty straightforward at first, but that God allowed me to see with new eyes, and which have really transformed my prayer life and outlook on the spiritual battle.
