Comments for Mrs. Joseph Wood https://mrsjosephwood.com/ Sharing stories of Faith, Grief, and Gratitude. Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:26:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Hope When it Hurts by Cynthia A. Brown https://mrsjosephwood.com/2019/02/21/hope-when-it-hurts/#comment-3371 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:26:33 +0000 http://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=152398#comment-3371 Oh I believe, I believe! I do believe in the God of Hope, knowing He can change what I have succumb to saying is hopeless. Choosing in that state of hopelessness to live believing my circumstances or outcome will not change is what I also struggle with!

You have blessed me with a new glimmer of HOPE! Thanks for the time my friend! I enjoyed the coffee, donuts and chocolate!

Cynthia A. Brown
(I’m Cindy…met you and enjoyed your friendship in Manteca, California)

PS HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY!!!

]]> Comment on 21 Day Anti-Anxiety Challenge by Angela Coffman https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/04/08/anti-anxiety-challenge-sugar-cookie-scrub/#comment-3307 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:52:51 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155644#comment-3307 Yes! This is beautiful! A bath can be so healing for the body, especially if you throw in a cup of epsom salts. Stress depletes our bodies of magnesium causing more body aches, constipation and trouble sleeping, but it will absorb easily through the skin in a healing bath.

]]> Comment on Special Needs Parenting: 10 things I wish everyone knew by Jeanette Wood https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/03/10/special-needs-parenting/#comment-3240 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:23:52 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155276#comment-3240 In reply to Catherine.

Great insight! I agree with you. The more positive conversations I have with others, the more I want to step out the front door to spend time with others! There are times I choose to not do something because of how emotionally draining it will be.

]]> Comment on Special Needs Parenting: 10 things I wish everyone knew by Catherine https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/03/10/special-needs-parenting/#comment-3236 Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:18:51 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155276#comment-3236 As a special needs Mom, I have most appreciated those friends or even strangers who choose to tell me why they love my child instead of sympathizing with “how hard my life is.” I know people are trying to be supportive in both cases, but sometimes the latter case encourages me to have s pity party rather than to love the child that I have been blessed with.

]]> Comment on Special Needs Parenting: 10 things I wish everyone knew by Jeanette Wood https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/03/10/special-needs-parenting/#comment-3227 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:51:46 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155276#comment-3227 In reply to Mommaofmany.

Great tips!!!

These are insights others just wouldn’t have unless they were walking in our shoes. If I think about it, I didn’t “get it” until I put the “special needs parenting shoes” on and started walking this path myself. <3

Thanks for sharing.

]]> Comment on Special Needs Parenting: 10 things I wish everyone knew by Mommaofmany https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/03/10/special-needs-parenting/#comment-3224 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:36:56 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155276#comment-3224 When I say “no” to my child, I’m not being mean. She learns differently than your children and needs different boundaries.

Please don’t offer my child food/candy/soda THEN tell them to ask me for permission. That makes me the “bad guy”. Talk to me before asking her.

My daughter is not usually verbal with people she’ unfamiliar with. Let her hang out on the edge of your group and observe. She’s having fun, even though she’s not interacting. She will, when she’s ready. Invite her to participate more, but respect it if she declines.

]]> Comment on Special Needs Parenting: 10 things I wish everyone knew by Mrs Joseph Wood https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/03/10/special-needs-parenting/#comment-3211 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 01:18:20 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155276#comment-3211 In reply to Janet Moses.

Yes!!

]]> Comment on Special Needs Parenting: 10 things I wish everyone knew by Janet Moses https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/03/10/special-needs-parenting/#comment-3210 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 01:13:00 +0000 https://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=155276#comment-3210 Just because my child is having a meltdown doesn’t mean he is a spoiled brat and my reaction to it may not be the same for your child or even another child of mine.

]]> Comment on Intimacy in the Christian Marriage Part 1 by Jeanette Wood https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/02/07/intimacy-christian-marriage-part-1/#comment-3053 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:33:34 +0000 http://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=151524#comment-3053 In reply to Reggie.

🙂 Thanks for the book title. I have not heard of it but will look into it more.

]]> Comment on Intimacy in the Christian Marriage Part 1 by Reggie https://mrsjosephwood.com/2018/02/07/intimacy-christian-marriage-part-1/#comment-3051 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 22:41:18 +0000 http://mrsjosephwood.com/?p=151524#comment-3051 The book ‘Passion Pursuit’ by Linda Dillow and Juli Slattery is far and away the most amazing book I have ever read on Christian intimacy. Any other book written on the topic always comes across as it is our ‘wifely duty’ to meet our husbands needs in this area, while completely neglecting the fact that God gave women intimate needs as well. This is the only book I ever recommend on the topic as I never once had an urge to throw it against the wall while reading it. Don’t judge, you know you’ve done it yourself.

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