This website, by author Sherry Kughn supports a blog (see upper right hand corner
“Sherry’s Blog”). In the blog, Sherry strives to share stories about her own relationships as a Christian mother of adult children, and as a wife, a daughter, a sister, and a friend. Her goal is to blog twice monthly. Please post comments or e-mail Sherry directly by using the link on the home page of this website.

Sherry has begun a career, too, in speaking. She has spoken dozens of times since the publication in 2007 of Heart Tree for Empty Nesters, her first book. Please feel free to e-mail Sherry regarding her availability to speak at ladies’ days, banquets, celebrations, and at other similar events.

Sherry says her studies of her two published books, and the one she is currently writing, have helped her immensely find fulfillment after her life’s work of raising children. With her newfound time, she is interested in becoming a better wife and an outstanding grandmother. She believes the words of the Bible can provide the best path for helping her achieve her goals, goals in which she believes all Christian mothers share.

Sherry's comments: "I learned many things from the Bible characters I studied. I learned, for example, from Jesus and Mary that the Bible teaches mothers to affirm their children. Mary affirmed Jesus at the wedding as recorded in the Bible. "Do as he tells you to do," she told helpers at the wedding. This example teaches Christ's followers to maintain the same love and devotion to their children even when they are struggling with life’s troubles, just as Mary stood by Jesus as he struggled against the political and spiritual powers of His day. Mary also teaches mothers not to interfere with God's will, even if His will includes the suffering of our children."

Faith Flight for Empty Nesters has helped Sherry understand the importance of maintaining and improving a positive faith. How does knowing Jesus and applying His words, she asks in Faith Flight for Empty Nesters, help Christian women overcome their challenges and find out how to live the most effective Christian life possible? How can we implement faith in order to achieve our goals? Sherry’s studies led her to understand the importance of hospitality, as the widow who saved Elijah learned. She better understands, she says, the risks and rewards that the Bible character, Deborah, found when leading her people. The Bible character, Paul, embodies how Christians grow in their spiritual lives from rebellion against God to learning to “fly” in faith and love toward God.

Sherry is deep into the study for her third book, Bouquets for Empty Nesters. The study is helping her, she says, realize how intangible blessings are better than tangible ones. The best part of growing older is learning the importance of hope, joy, forgiveness, humility, perseverance, and the other intangibles to be found in Bouquets for Empty Nesters.

Appreciation:
“I would like to give special attention to my own mother, Sarah Parker Ford, who instilled in me the heart of love toward my children. She is an angel in my life. I appreciate my mother-in-law, Louise Kughn. She is a loving, faithful servant to me and to other members of God's family and has been for more than six decades. I want to give special recognition to the women at Greenbrier Church of Christ who have given me sisterly love and support throughout the past decade. I especially want to thank God for the opportunities He has given me to write and to speak about the love He has for me and for others. I also appreciate my husband, Barry Kughn, who has supported me during the past two years in fulfilling my goal of writing full time.” –Sherry

"My interest in words continues. Words are the medium that God uses to communicate with mankind. We should take them seriously and use them well.” -- Sherry

"Heaven and earth will pass away," said Jesus, "but my words will never pass away." Mark 13:31

"Eloquence and poetry are as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases"... Edmund Burke "On the Sublime and Beautiful" 1729-1797