Human Weakness by Design
I said I would need prayers and I do. I knew it would be hard and it is. Oh, it’s not the end of the world hard, but rather human weakness that has got a
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The Christmas Crunch & Slump: When Anxiety was great within me.
Although Christmas is my most favorite time of the year there was one Christmas where I found myself in a very dark place. My business was a seasonal one and I was working a second
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Life’s Bitter Fruit
My husband, Thad grew up in the rural farm lands of Indiana where he and his older brother and sister spent wonderful times visiting their mother’s childhood farm. On one such occasion, his brother and
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Relating to Relationships
There is an image that will stay in my heart and soul forever to remind me that we are born for relationships. Our new pastor came to our couple’s bible study recently to meet us
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A Chance Encounter
It was a chance encounter. I had brought my friend to the outpatient surgical center for a procedure. While in the waiting room a young man sat in the chair next to me. He had
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When We Serve, We Become Served
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you
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The “Sling Season”
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NRSV) This past week Thad was given the go-ahead to stop wearing the “Transformer” Shoulder Sling! After six weeks
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Monday, Monday
Oh, Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be. Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day; Monday, Monday, it just turns out that way… Monday, Monday by The Mammas & The Pappas.
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I’m Still Here, My Child (Part 2 of Are You Here, Lord?)
It wasn’t what we’d hoped for. It wasn’t what we’d prayed for. It wasn’t what we had thought could happen. But here we are, hearing the doctor’s words: “I have never worked on a shoulder
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Two Friends – One Fear
I recently spent the day with two friends in two separate hospitals. And yes, it was one of those days when you wish you could be in two places at once.
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For Better or For Worse, In Sickness & in Health
Forty years ago, my husband and I chose each other for better or for worse. Some days I think he got the worse. I was once this vivacious, voluptuous, attractive woman in a Sophia Loren
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