Excerpt: Letter from the Editor
My son loved taking swimming lessons when he was a toddler – that is until he had to put his head under the water. He came up screaming and blowing water out of his nose and mouth. And he insisted he would never put his head under the water again – never, ever, EVER!
I felt bad for him. This experience had left such a negative imprint on his life that I imagined he would never learn to swim. But he continued with swim lessons – always careful to keep his head above water. And then one day, he watched the boy next to him holding onto the side of the pool and dropping below the surface every 10 seconds and resurfacing. My son suddenly forgot about his negative underwater experience and began bobbing up in down in the water nonstop. He was hooked. Sometime later he jumped off the diving board into the deep end and loved it. And today he competes on a swim team.
Diving underwater is risky – and so is diving deeper in a relationship. You may have experienced some hurtful people in the past who have seared your memory and kept you from ever wanting to go deeper again. Hopefully, this issue of MOMSense will inspire you to:
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Take the plunge with a friend and build a closer tie (page 4).
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Build the Christian family you never had growing up (page 7).
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Create a new family masterpiece from your life’s broken pieces (page 21).
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Walk alongside a “troubled” person and offer hope (page 23).
There are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18:24, NLT)
Blessings,
Mary Darr, Editor | 
