Elizabeth Spencer

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7 Wonderful Gifts of Relationships with Your Adult Children

Jul 4, 2024 | crosswalk.com | Elizabeth Spencer

For Christmas one year, my oldest daughter gave me a tutu. It was a fetching pink-and-green tulle number she’d made herself, with help from my seamstress mom. My then-teenager gave it to me not because I’m a dancer or because I had anywhere in particular to wear it, but because she was familiar with one of the less-than-fulfilling pieces of my life story and wanted to do something about it.
7 Wonderful Gifts of Relationships with Your Adult Children

Jul 4, 2024 | wfil.com | Elizabeth Spencer

For Christmas one year, my oldest daughter gave me a tutu. It was a fetching pink-and-green tulle number she’d made herself, with help from my seamstress mom. My then-teenager gave it to me not because I’m a dancer or because I had anywhere in particular to wear it, but because she was familiar with one of the less-than-fulfilling pieces of my life story and wanted to do something about it.
7 Truths Your Teen Needs to Hear From You

Apr 24, 2024 | ibelieve.com | Elizabeth Spencer

One of the most important things I ever heard from my dad was the offer he made me two months into my first year of college, right after my high school boyfriend very unexpectedly broke up with me: "Do you want me to come get you and bring you home for the weekend? I could take the day off work Friday and drive down."As it turned out, I didn't need to take my dad up on his offer. But until he spoke those words across the 180 miles between us, I had no idea how much I needed to hear them from him.
7 Truths Your Teen Needs to Hear From You

Apr 24, 2024 | crosswalk.com | Elizabeth Spencer

Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer Published Apr 18, 2024 One of the most important things I ever heard from my dad was the offer he made me two months into my first year of college, right after my high school boyfriend very unexpectedly broke up with me: "Do you want me to come get you and bring you home for the weekend? I could take the day off work Friday and drive down."As it turned out, I didn't need to take my dad up on his offer.
What Is Maundy Thursday?-How to Celebrate During Holy Week

Mar 28, 2024 | faithit.com | Elizabeth Spencer

As we celebrate Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter, you may start to wonder, what is Maundy Thursday?
7 Good Things To Tell Yourself When You’re Having a Bad Day

Jan 1, 2024 | ibelieve.com | Elizabeth Spencer

A few weeks ago, my daughter texted me from the Christian college where she's a freshman commuter student: “Please pray for me. I'm so overwhelmed right now.” I told her I would. And then I did. A little while later, she called me, and I asked where she was at. “In my car, crying,” she told me. This is not my favorite kind of mom phone call. I assured her that I loved her and told her everything would work out and promised to keep praying.
Now I Understand How Much Mom Did for Christmas, I’m Trying to Do It, Too

Dec 5, 2023 | grownandflown.com | Elizabeth Spencer |Elizabeth Spencer

My favorite part of Christmas when I was growing up was ‘The Pile.’ Once we got the “okay!” from my dad, my brother, sister and I would race from my parents’ bedroom where we had huddled on their bed to wait impatiently while they made coffee and turned on the Christmas lights, put on the Christmas music and lit the Christmas fire. We’d come to a halt at the end of the hallway and stand gaping at the collection of gifts that had exploded under the tree from the night before.
10 Worship Songs I'd Be Fine with Never Singing Again (And Why)

Jul 24, 2023 | wfil.com | Elizabeth Spencer

By Elizabeth Spencer, Crosswalk.com If you’re reading this piece (and you obviously are), it’s probably for one of two reasons: 1) to see if your favorite worship song is on this list, or 2) to see if your least favorite worship song is on this list. Music (and maybe particularly worship music, due to its personal, participatory nature) is a very individualized preference. What I “like” or even love may well be a song you’d be fine never to hear (let alone sing) again...