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How to Maintain Lifelong Love: Advice from Couples in Their 90s

By Keith A. Myers— Whether they’ve been together for most of their lives or had a second chance at love in their later years, senior couples have a wealth of insight from their personal experience.  Couples in residence at MorseLife Health System – a nonprofit healthcare and residential services provider for

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Resurrect the Joy of Your Easter Celebrations!

In the middle of life’s trials, celebrating Easter can feel like more of a burden than it was intended to be. “Resurrection Sunday” celebrations can be tough when we prepare to gather with difficult relatives or maybe feel left out completely. I know. In our family, Easter is traditionally “our”

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Getting to the Other Side of Victory

By Donna Hopkins— I might have a lot to cry about, but I refuse to drown in my tears. “Getting to the Other Side of Victory,” is a book I wrote for myself first, for my healing, renewing and restoring. Eight years later I’m sharing it with you. I’ve had

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Family Matters
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A Muddy Beginning to Blending a Family

By Lesley Klenk– When we turned 50, my husband and I sold our home where we raised our children. We designed the house when we were newlyweds believing that six bedrooms, four bathrooms, two staircases, formal living and dining rooms, and a bonus room would fit us forever. Fourteen years

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You Have to Change Somethings to Stay the Same
Faith & Relationships
Nancie Carmichael

You Have to Change Some Things In Order to Stay the Same

My mouth dropped open as I heard chef-owner Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park Restaurant explain in a television interview why he closed his restaurant for three months to completely remodel it, gut the kitchen, re-do the menu and the furnishings. His restaurant is rated Number One in the world

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Finding Love Again After Losing Your Partner
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Finding Love Again After Losing Your Partner

In an article published in the New York Times in 2006, it was an old saying that caught the headlines, ‘Women Mourn; Men Replace’. Twelve years later statistics show this demographic to be gradually leveling out. Despite the fact that women are becoming increasingly independent, going it alone may not

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Worry

By Nancie Carmichael— I wish I didn’t worry so much. Well-established, woman of the Word and faith that I am, I worry. Sometimes anxieties just pop in—unbidden, waking me at midnight. I have seen a pattern: It’s usually before I leave on a trip. And it usually concerns the safety/well-being/happiness

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Friendships: Minerals for the Aging Brain

By Dr. John Medina– You’d have a hard time finding someone more socially active— and intellectually lively—than wealthy heiress and arts patron Brooke Astor. By the year 2000, she was New York royalty, married to a man whose father actually died on the Titanic. Along with three of her closest

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The Good Outcomes of Your Faith

By Jackelyn Viera Illoff– God can overcome the smallest and greatest challenges in your life. He does that through your heart and God-given abilities.  In 1 Samuel 16:7, the Lord spoke to Samuel about David when he was still a shepherd, saying, “Do not consider his appearance or his height.

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Faith
Marta Greenman

The Lord is My Shepherd

The Lord is my shepherd ~ by Marta Greenman Have you ever noticed how often Jesus called people sheep? The term is used over 500 times in the Bible. How do these illustrations relate to our relationship to Jesus and the Christian faith? What we can learn about a shepherd and his sheep

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Crossing the Broken Bridge
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Crossing the Broken Bridge

By Sandra Butler – Have I been a good-enough mother to my daughter? This question hovered in my thoughts on past sleepless nights when I replayed the scenes of my maternal mistakes—for which I had tried, judged, and sentenced myself. The choices I made as a young woman continued to

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Christmas Gift Box
Faith & Relationships
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What Are You Doing This Christmas?

What Are You Doing This Christmas? “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” James 1:22 Bilgun, a young Mongolian boy, had a hole in his heart, and if he did not receive a specific operation, he would die before age twelve. Samaritan’s

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Faith & Relationships
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What to Do with All of Your Photos

By Lucy Parks— We need memories. They are what connects us, they are what we revisit, and they are what make us who we are. As we get older, memories fade. Thankfully, photos never will, and with the power of technology, we can take photos and videos of absolutely everything we

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Perspective
Faith & Relationships
Kim Chaffin

Perspective

I love to take pictures of my daisies. While photographing them, I felt drawn to look at them from another angle. The simple beauty of the daisy stretching towards the setting sun spoke to my heart. The word “perspective” rolled around in my head as I looked at the picture

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trying to be perfect is overwhelming
Faith & Relationships
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Overwhelmed: One Woman’s Story

I’m overwhelmed by too much to do and not enough time to do it. I’m like a downstairs maid in an English abbey. I’m overwhelmed with fatigue, frustration, resentment, chaos, disorder, and lack. There just isn’t enough of me to go around. Talk about overwhelming—I’m like a size two swimsuit

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Living - Fully Present
Faith & Relationships
Norine Rae

Living – Fully Present!

By Norine Rae – I am blessed to live in a home where there is a constant flow of community. People travel from all over the world to come to Redding, CA and attend conferences at Bethel Church where I am blessed to be a member. Just this morning I

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Slide to the Right
Faith & Relationships
Kim Chaffin

Slide to the Right

I trust my husband as a pilot. I put my life in his hands every time we fly. He has however, had me do a little emergency training of my own to be prepared for an unexpected emergency. I think any time we get into a plane we are putting our

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Mandisa Talks about Death, Depression, and Her Journey to Joy: Overcomer

Pastor, author, and Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah recently sat down for an in-depth conversation with Grammy award winning recording artist, Mandisa. The artist, known for the mega-hit “Overcomer,” talked with Dr. Jeremiah about the emotional story that inspired the song and the unexpected circumstances that followed. “Mandisa, your vibrant

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Hidden Treasures
Faith & Relationships
Kim Chaffin

Hidden Treasures

Wandering through my mother’s garden there are hidden treasures. Tucked under the leaves of a Hosta I found these little gems. Each time I walk through her garden I discover something new that fills me with happiness. The same is true when we study the Bible. Scripture is filled with

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Aroma of Character
Faith & Relationships
Kim Chaffin

The Aroma of Your Character

Fall is my favorite time of year to stock up on lotions and body sprays from Bath & Body Works. I love to wear my “fall” scents all year long! I like the way they smell, and come on, who doesn’t like to smell good? I don’t know a girl

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