My husband and I celebrated thirty-six years of marriage this year. And I know our marriage blessings always far outweigh the tough times. Still, sometimes we form a perspective through a lens of what’s wrong
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Thanksgiving in all its fullness? When I think about Thanksgiving, the first thing that comes to mind is gratefulness and all its trimmings. We pause to remember the year’s fullness or lack thereof. Today as
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Instant replays. Silly jokes. Favorite stories. Oh sure, we may roll our eyes at the 200th telling…unless of course, we’re the one doing the telling. When you’re reminiscing with a friend, the stories just get
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It’s high time we celebrated stories of rescue and redemption. Stories of when loss turned to gain, darkness turned to light, true hope won over hopelessness, and overcomers sang a victory song. In the past,
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God will use whatever is at hand to instruct us. Last month, I mentioned I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time detailing spreadsheets. So, I should have expected that my next lesson would come
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Prophesied messiah, or prejudged leader? “John. Peter. Paul. Come, follow me.” I imagine Jesus’s smile as he reached out his hand to each man. But, did they drop everything and run to Him? What about
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Passionately seeking God radically transforms us. And the enemy knows it. So he uses the world’s distractions to keep us from God. It boils down to a constant spiritual struggle. Like how living in this
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Thankful for all the flavors? While the abundance of fall and my favorite season’s harvest means more to me than picking apples in North Carolina, baking pumpkin pies, or roasting huge turkeys, I smile with
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Loving someone often happens naturally. But maintaining loving another person is not that easy. In fact, it takes work. Love. A small and seemingly simple word. Yet it holds more power than we realize. And
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How to cultivate patience? I’m sure you’ve heard your mother, sister, or best friend say, “Have Patience. This too shall pass.” Yep. I thought so. The first thing that usually comes to my mind is
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