Once children reach adulthood it’s important for parents to let go and trust God. It’s a difficult but necessary skill I recently had the opportunity to put into practice. My daughter and her husband bought
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You are not alone in all these mysteries … When all is lost. Have you ever had one of those days when you felt the life drain out of you and you were totally done?
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What a roadside weed, the apostle Paul, a traffic cone, and a terrible, horrible, no good day taught me about blooming where God plants us Yesterday began as an Australia day. That’s what we call
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Whether you are caring for aging parents, making a career change, or sensing a shift in your spiritual redirection, you can expect to experience internal and external transitions. When a person is in transition, passage
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Several years ago, our family enjoyed creating candy from molds. With the right mold, any shape was possible. Turtles were our favorite. We never discussed empty calories or dental cavities. Instead, while choosing our mold,
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“Some days are diamonds, some days are stones.” John Denver, though he could have used some of that intuitiveness when it came to experimental aircraft, sure nailed it when he crooned those words about the
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“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson The way of birds, flowers, and hope Birds, unlike you and me, listen to each whisper on the wind. Every morning throughout the seasons, they
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Learning to Trust God Along the Way Rules. There are a lot of them, don’t you think? It seems the world bombards us with them as soon as we’ve mastered the transition from sitting up
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If my gratitude is sincere, it is an act of worship. Songs and prayers of thanks and praise resonate within my soul and rise above the mountaintops, toward heaven . . . Sincere gratitude and
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Lead us Lord, to Your mountain, into the deep woods where shallow pools beckon us to kneel beside still waters. This place formed by grace. Where You take us away from fear that comes in
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