
The Happiest New Year Ever
By Debra Susan Bowman As the new year approaches do you see it with dread or delight? Your attitude could very well impact the results. Only Scrooge would declare to … Continue Reading The Happiest New Year Ever
Re-mothering a new generation of whole, healthy and happy grandchildren.
By Debra Susan Bowman As the new year approaches do you see it with dread or delight? Your attitude could very well impact the results. Only Scrooge would declare to … Continue Reading The Happiest New Year Ever
This Christmas we reflect on the Joy that came to the world. We leave behind a gorgeous autumn to go forward to a spectacular Christmas. A time of celebrating Christ’s … Continue Reading This Spectacular Season
6 Ways to Make Your Thanksgiving Positive and Powerful by Debra S. Bowman – awesomegrandmothers.org How do you have a thankful heart this thanksgiving when you have a broken … Continue Reading Having An Attitude of Gratitude This Thanksgiving
Eight Ways to Have A Great Vacation This Fall, Right In Your Home With Your Grandkids By Debra Susan Bowman A friend with a heavy heart asked how she should … Continue Reading Spectacular Fall Scenery In Your Living Room
By Debra Susan Bowman You can learn from leaves. This amazing Autumn season can reveal fresh ways you can face your challenges in life. Here are 5 things about autumn leafs … Continue Reading 5 Ways to Enhance Your Life By Turning Over a New Leaf
Autumn is in the air And we love it in all it’s glory. The way grands and kids enjoy Is their own unique story. The view of colorful leaves Creates … Continue Reading Fondness for Fall
Permanent link to Debbie’s Declaration: I Am Overwhelmed With Love"Overwhelmed is good when something good overwhelms something bad!"
By Debra Susan Bowman
Some days when I think of all that needs to be done I get totally overwhelmed and then I just want to quit. My to-do list was long: Anthony needed schools clothes, I needed to do housework and cleaning, I needed to promote my book, do laundry, get the car repaired and I have things to do in the office for Sam. Life can be overwhelming.
But let’s think for a minute of overwhelmed in a new way. Overwhelmed is good when love overwhelms loneliness. Overwhelmed is good when blessed overwhelms stressed. Overwhelmed is good when rest overwhelms the test. Overwhelmed is good when action overwhelms passivity, when joy overcomes depression, when forgiveness overwhelms brokenness. Being overwhelmed is always good when it produces faith, energy, the hope, the love to move on, to push through. Take time out this week to sit before God, to contemplate Him and his awesome promises, to be overwhelmed by His presence. Think of something you need to overcome this week and ask God how he would like to overcome that. Then write it down, think on it, pray over it and say it until victory comes. It is always a good thing to be overwhelmed with God!
I was working in the kitchen cleaning out the pots and pans area when Anthony came in and said, “Let me do that!” I knew he would love playing with the pots and pans, what little one doesn’t, but what five year old wants to help clean and organize? He went to work and cleaned and did a great job. I was overwhelmed by this small gesture. In his little hands I could see a God’s big hand at work and my overwhelmed seemed to shrink in this picture of His love.
The declaration of the Word: Isaiah 43:2
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.”
Here are 5 awesome tips on how to turn I am overwhelmed into I have overcome by Samuel and Debra Bowman
Happy Grandparent’s Day Sun. Sept 9th! A friend told me that this week. I told her, every day we celebrate grandparent’s day! We are raising our 5 year old grandson … Continue Reading Happy Grandparent’s Day!
It is said you learn everything you need to in Kindergarten. Having a 5 year old I realize he learned much before that. As soon as the baby reaches out … Continue Reading Mighty Manners
6 P’s That Turn A Sore Throat Into A Positive Note – What to do when both you and your kids are sick Anthony just started kindergarten and the first thing … Continue Reading 6 P’s That Turn A Sore Throat Into A Positive Note
The summer has gone fast! Don’t regret how the days fly by, remember each one is an opportunity to impact the lives of those around you, especially the young ones. … Continue Reading A New Era
Not that it’s something we long for in life, but dust is inevitable and it can even be a good thing. How is that? Perspective. Perspective is powerful in helping … Continue Reading Dust Can Be A Good Thing
A friend of mine, Janet, has been raising her grandchild since infancy and now the child is in kindergarten. She sees all her friend’s mommies meet them at school and … Continue Reading Reject Rejection
For grandparents and grandkids summer is cool We get to spend lazy days at the pool. We go to a waterpark to slide I wooshed … Continue Reading Sweet, and Sultry Summer