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The Great Key!
When you fall in love and marry, there’s no way to know what’s in store. No way! You can’t know till you get there. Don and I were deeply and passionately in love over fifty years ago. We raised seven kids, and they are great people, but it wasn’t easy. We had some significant bumps in our marital bliss road. It...
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What Do You Do When You Discover a Weakness? Beat Yourself Up? Fall Apart?
A Painful Realization and a Gift Recently I was listening to a religious leader speak at a conference. As he talked, it came clearly into my mind that I had a weakness I had never supposed. I was shocked to see myself in this new light. In the past, I would have immediately begun beating myself up for having a weakness....
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Keep Your Hand on the Helm of Thought
You Have Control Over How Your Life Feels! I’ve written many articles on the power of accepting that you have control over how your life feels. This control comes from learning to manage your thoughts. I write about it because, for three decades, as a mom, I didn’t believe this was true. I felt hammered and blown about by life. Then...
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Do You Grant Others Space to Breathe and Regroup?
Everyone can become overwhelmed. At some time in our life, we will do less than our best. The ability to love and serve without judgment or recrimination is one thing that stands out to me about the ministry of Jesus Christ. He spent time with those who were overwhelmed, who were managing less than their best. One of the things that I...