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Faith & Relationships
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Managing the Fear and Anxiety of the Unknown

By Stan Popovich – Almost everybody worries about what will happen in the future. The prospect of not knowing if something good or bad will happen to you in the near future can produce a lot of fear and anxiety. As a result, here is a list of techniques and

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Faith
Carol Doyel

Discovering God’s Plans and Purposes for Your Life

By Carol Doyel – “’For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future’”.  (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV) Do you believe the verse above? If you have any doubt about God’s intentions

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Pam Reynolds

Things We Take for Granted

By Pamela Reynolds – “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”  Aldous Huxley I was thinking about how many little things are done for me by others. It made me realize what a great support system I have and how little I have respected it or was

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Pam Reynolds

Gifts from the Heart for Mother’s Day

By Pamela Reynolds – Gift Giving Holiday gift giving can set off a nightmare. Gifts may propose affection. Gifts can be those effects we receive but don’t really need. They might have been presumed to be unique. Most often the gifts we might select for ourselves, is perhaps never the

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When a Mom Inspires Her Daughter

By Cindi McMenamin − When a Mom Inspires Her Daughter is filled with biblical instruction and personal stories that reveal what works and doesn’t work when it comes to building the mother-daughter relationship. Every mom will find tremendous encouragement in this resource! During the teen years, a mother-daughter relationship can

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Barb Franzen

Five Kids and a Dime

By Barbara Franzen – With the Great Depression in full swing, the folks of Gothenburg Nebraska, a small prairie town, flocked to the annual Swede Festival. The colorful festivities served as a distraction from everyday stagnation.  Nelly Carlson and her five children, ranging from age twelve down to eight months,

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Wisdom
Carol Doyel

Wisdom and Revelation

By Carol Doyel – Wisdom is something we all need, but it does us no good if we don’t apply it in our life. Actually, I’ve come to understand that wisdom is applied truth! But what is truth? Well, for me there is only one source for absolute truth and

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Faith
Poppy Smith

Explore Opportunities: 12 Keys to Making Good Choices

By Poppy Smith – When you DARE TO DREAM, it often involves stepping out into something that stretches both your faith and your mind.  That’s what I did a few years ago and graduated from seminary with a Masters in Spiritual Formation and Direction as a post mid-life woman. I

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Norine Rae

Arise and Shine

By Norine Rae – During this glorious spring season when many of us celebrate the resurrection of Christ the words I keep hearing in my ears are, “arise and shine.” Yes, Christ has risen indeed and because of His wonderful gift of salvation we too now have the opportunity to

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Gina Burgess

Little Baby Feet

By Gina Burgess – Little, sweet baby feet. Mary will soon cover them with her hand, warming them against the night chill. She has treasured in her heart all the words spoken about her first born Son. Things like, “The angel was so glorious, shouting out praises to God on

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The Newest Selfie

By Janet Denison – Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie with several stars at the Oscar awards and the photo was retweeted 1.7 million times in the first hour.  Oxford Dictionary named “selfie” as the “Word of the Year 2013.”  USA Today recently ran an interesting article on the newest version

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3 Things Women Get Wrong About Feminism

By Meg Baatz – Feminism means different things to different people. Many of us don’t really think about what it means, where we’ve come from, what we’ve overcome — or even what goal we’re working toward. I don’t have the authority to just tell you what feminism is all about. It’s

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Faith
Norine Rae

Thinking Globally With Acts of Kindness

By Norine Rae – Press forward into a global prospective challenging yourself to greater heights and depths as you focus on your part related to the issues facing the world today. So, what do you do? How can you make a difference? For most of us the situation seems to

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Pam Reynolds

Appreciating Humanity

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley I was thinking about how many little things are done for me by others. It made me realize what a great support system I have and how little I have respected it or was grateful.

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Andrea Warshaw Wernick

5 Steps to Clearing Your Mind of Clutter

By Andrea Warshaw Wernick – NEW YORK – I often find that I try to do too much at one time, which leaves little time to focus on one particular task that really needs to be accomplished. If you find yourself unable to focus on one task, here are some

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Faith
Nancie Carmichael

A Wonderful, Ordinary Place

By Nancie Carmichael – These days everyone can be their own reality star through YouTube, FaceBook, Pinterest, or Instagram. We read books on how to maximize our potential, to be more, live more. I’ve done my share of teaching on the subject. But I’m realizing something new: In my quest

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Lifestyles through the Years

By Rosa Mendy – Do you find yourself comparing today’s lifestyles with the way you grew up? “When I was younger…” becomes a staple sentence for us all, over time. It doesn’t necessarily mean, though, that things were better in the past than they are now. Extraordinary changes in the

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Do You Have a Personal Anthem?

Readers–today let’s get personal. Though Boomer Highway is a conversation about mind-body wellness and often deals with physical health, it’s also about the stuff that makes us happy, things tangential, our individual choices. Keeping the heart beating is one thing, but filling it with joy is quite another. And it’s so varied,

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Gina Burgess

What I Have Learned in 50 Years About Love and Life

By Gina Burgess – Burl Cain, warden for Angola Prison in Louisiana, once said that no earthly thing can change a man, only Jesus can. He became warden over a prison that was once called the bloodiest place on earth. Back in the fifties and sixties, no one came out

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