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A Place to Belong
Today, I have a devotional on being Rootbound featured at Circle of Friend’s ministry page. Please visit it, read it and share it if it ministers to you. Also, to introduce you to the purpose and heart...
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Relationship Survival During the Holidays
I received this poem in a Christmas letter from a high school friend in 2005. I’ve kept it all these years. When I was teaching, it was in my classroom. Now, it’s a wall hanging in my counseling...
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The Mommy Test and a Giveaway
I have the privilege to post today at Not Alone Mom on just that – feeling alone and a failure as a mom. {Have you ever felt that way?} Read today’s post here. Also, the give away for Isn’t …...
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{Dis}Courage
Does it feel like sometimes there’s a big, thick wall surrounding you, isolating you from all that is good on the other side? I call this wall discouragement. I don’t like it. Are you discouraged?...
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Parenting Series: Be An Encouraging Mom
By Contributing Author, Kristin L. Nelson of Not Alone Mom. “If you can’t say anything nice – don’t say anything at all.” You’ve heard the saying time and again. We use it to teach our children about...
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Between A Rock and Hard Place {Or A Buggy and A Pig}
I live in the middle of the third largest Amish community in the United States. Driving in our area requires a certain level of acquired proficiency. Slow-moving horse and buggies are plentiful, and...
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Finding Calm by Jennifer Barnes Maggio
I’m excited to help launch Choose Now team member Jennifer Barnes Maggio’s new book for single parents! Eighteen years ago, I gazed into the eyes of my unbelievably beautiful first-born. I sat in the...
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Why You Need To Let Go And Be Thankful
There are times God’s goodness is simple. And real. And overwhelming. This morning I woke up in my bed at a place called home. A place I take for granted. “Thank God if your kids are in your beds each...
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Four Lessons Learned From An Unlikely Pair
It’s my privilege to share this story my daughter wrote from one of her recent trips to Hope Of Life International, Zacapa, Guatemala. Kaylee’s spent seven months in the last two years in the mountains...
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So, You’re Thirty-Something
So you’re thirty something. It’s a great place to be. You’re still young, but not-so-young is on the horizon. You’re more grounded than ever. But it’s weird. You’re not that young kid any more. You...
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Honesty and Envy and You
Last week, I was reminded of envy. I read about the Longaberger Basket office closing. If you don’t know what that is, it’s the building which houses the Longaberger company headquarters. It’s shaped...
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I Have No Friends and Other Mom Grief
I desire friendship was what I wrote in my journal. The tears flowed and I felt stupid. I had mom grief. What a selfish thing to write, I thought. I have friends. I mean, I had friends. Now, I have...
View Article14 Lessons from 14 Days in India
Though I travel a lot as a speaker, have been on mission trips, have a daughter living in Mexico, and have traveled to my family’s village in Sicily, I was anxious traveling half-way around the world...
View ArticleKeys to Healthy Friendships S3E3
God created us for community and the smaller space of friendship. This week On The Front Porch, Brenda and Ingrid talk about friendship. Their own friendship began in their local community almost ten...
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