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Beauty & Fashion
LivingBetter50

Creating a Revolution – One Bracelet at a Time

Let’s face it mid-life, middle aged, whatever you call it – can be daunting. In most cases our houses are a bit more quiet as we adjust to being empty nesters. Our jobs are transitioning or wrapping up and retirement is lurking over the horizon. As women we are facing

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Entertainment
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Living Better 50’s Favorite Christmas Gifts

Living Better 50 has found our favorite gifts to help you with your Christmas shopping! Whether you are shopping for your significant other, your best friend, children & grandchildren, or even the mailman, we can help! Let’s start with the “high-tech” and electronics enthusiasts in your life: Fire T.V. Stick

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Faith & Relationships
Allegra Gallian

6 Holiday Crafts to Make with Grandchildren

The holidays are a time of celebration, giving thanks, and spending time with loved ones. As grandparents, you want to make the most of these times with your grandchildren.There are many ways to enjoy these special times, so why not plan an activity that everyone can enjoy for years to

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Faith
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Grateful for Grace

My pastor joked this week that when children have a birthday, their mothers should get all the presents! After all, it’s the mom that does all the hard work of carrying them, birthing them, and caring for them. In total fairness, the child doesn’t do anything except show up, so

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Faith & Relationships
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We Gravitate Towards What We Contemplate

Ever glance off at a pretty sunset only to feel your car tires jarring along the roadside? Truth is, if we focus exclusively on driving between the yellow lines, we avoid veering. We can apply this principle to our life and marriage as well. Napoleon Hill once wrote, “Every man

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Crossing the Broken Bridge
Family Matters
LivingBetter50

How Does Burial Insurance Work?

Your children are grown and your debts are little to none. You might even be retired and living comfortably with your spouse. You most likely don’t need a term life insurance policy anymore. Still, you want to make sure that your family is taken care of following your death. You don’t

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When Love Hurts
Daily Devotions
Girl Friends in God

November 9, 2018-This is Real Love

Today’s Truth God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away

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Faith
LivingBetter50

The Secret of Praying Like Jesus

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”   Mark 1:35 In a world where there are so many different kinds of prayer and meditation, what is the right way to pray? Should

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Holiday Season
Faith
LivingBetter50

Preparing Your Family for a Gracious Holiday Season

As the leaves begin to deepen their hue, the cooler winds bring in the holiday season. During a time of cheer and good company, it’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of endless celebrations. The holiday season brings with it a deeper meaning beyond parties and delicious food,

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Faith
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Turning Our Nation to God

Our nation is in serious trouble. The United States is quickly becoming the divided states, as signs of disunity and conflicts abound. From family breakdowns, to the immigration crisis, to the abiding racial divide, to Congress’ inability to function, it is clear we are a fraying nation. Add to this

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Ways to Develop Healthy Thinking Patterns
Faith
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Ways to Develop Healthy Thinking Patterns

The neighbor’s new car shines in the noonday sun and their smiles cast a shadow on your dented old car. You are not enough. Or at least it feels that way. Words and actions from others supposedly judging your lack might even be mixed with those thoughts ruminating in your

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Faith & Relationships
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Life Is This Moment

2017 was to be a milestone year. I was turning 50, celebrating 30 years of marriage to my high school sweetheart and our five children were busy striving toward their goals and dreams. In hindsight, though, I don’t think we fully realize that we may take time for granted until

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Faith
Carol Lovegren-Miller

Pay It Forward

A generous trail of transmission fluid followed us for a quarter mile up the rough road to Two Pan Trailhead. Running out of transmission fluid brought an inopportune end to hauling our four horses and gear up to the trailhead where seven of us planned to meet August 12th for

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Faith
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It’s Okay Not to be Okay

Trusting the Real God to Complete the Work in the Real You When I was sixteen, I volunteered at a retirement home, two nights a week and on Saturdays. My responsibilities were fairly basic. I changed bed linens, cleaned bathrooms, and made tea. I loved it and became very fond

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Faith & Relationships
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Tips To Improve Your Relationship With Your Daughter-in-Law

Do you want to create a better understanding and reduce tension? If these are a few of the questions that frequently enter your mind, then read on for some answers. Mothers Are Always Mothers I’d like to attempt to answer the question about why there is tension within the relationship. Mothers

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Faith
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A Fifty Plus Life Reimagined

After much prayer and soul searching I relocated to the Greater Atlanta Area from Greenville, SC. It was something I had considered for a while but not seriously until a year after finding myself suddenly single and alone. I had many reasons why it didn’t make sense at this stage

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grandparents
Grandparenting
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Kids at Risk? Grandparents to the Rescue!

Grandparents today are taking a larger role in the lives of their grandchildren, sharing their worries and joys, giving them love and support, and helping out harried and exhausted parents. With the retirement of the baby boomer generation, there are more grandparents than ever — an estimated 70 million in

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Faith
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Makeup and My Need for Love

By Gloria Rose— The best thing a woman can do to look younger is beef up her eyebrows, declared the beauty website. I made a mental note. The make-up counter sales rep with artificial lashes and shimmery eyelids asked if she could help me. Soon we were trying samples of

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Faith & Relationships
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