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Faith
Rita Schulte

Rocks of Remembrance

By Rita Schulte – How Building Altars to our Anger Keeps us Stuck – Mary had been married six years and had two children when she and her husband first came to see me for counseling. Her husband seemed like a nice enough fellow, but he was getting fed up

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Faith & Relationships
Norine Rae

Vision for a Soul Mate

By Norine Rae – Habakkuk 2:2-3 “Then the Lord answered me and said, ‘Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. “For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail. Though it

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Lori Kempton

Changing Your World – Even After 50!

By Lori Kempton – I had a lady tell me the other day that since she’s getting older in life, she just doesn’t feel as useful as she used to feel in her younger days.  She said earlier in life she used to volunteer at the church and other organizations

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I Will Remember This

By Michelle Williams – When I was a child, about ten-years-old, I was having breakfast with my sister, Cheri. I don’t know why, but while watching her eat, I decided to remember the moment. I told myself, I will remember this forever. I took in all the details, as if

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Discovering God’s Dream For You

By Andy Mason – Well, you can know what God’s dream for you is. And you can dream it with Him. And He wants to fulfill it WITH you. So how do you discover God’s dream for your life? What is the unique purpose that He has designed you to fulfill? One thing to know is

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Faith & Relationships
Poppy Smith

Don’t Say It!

By Poppy Smith – I brooded. I fumed. I prayed. I cried. Finally, steamed up and ready to blow, I sat down at my computer. Hammering out my deeply felt opinions, my wisdom from years of living, and a bunch of sock-it-to-you Scriptures for good measure, I shot my highly

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Faith
Gina Burgess

The Art of Listening

By Gina Burgess – The Queen of Sheba traveled about 2,000 miles to listen to the wisdom of Solomon. Gideon put out fleece to listen to God’s will. Abraham listened and his son Isaac was born, and his servant listened to God and brought Rebecca to Isaac for his bride.

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Lynn Mosher

Are You Suffering from Wilderness Fatigue?

By Lynn Mosher – Out of work. Loss of insurance. Bankruptcies abound. Foreclosures proliferate. Things are drying up all around. Feels like the hot sands of the Sahara sometimes, doesn’t it? What drives us into the desert? What vehicle takes us for a spin to the backside of the wilderness?

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The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise …

By Wendie Pett – I like to think the above saying is a Southern thing (aka “thang”), having spent most of my life in the South. I’d heard it often – from relatives, my parents, in passing at the supermarket, even on the radio. Quite the common expression down there,

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Women of Faith Blogs
Vicki Norris

RE-Train: Dream-Sizing Your Mind

By Vicki Norris – I am in the process of retraining my brain for the expansion. You see, here at Restoring Order, we are in a transition. We are becoming more of what we were meant to be. We are graduating up into maturity and fullness. We are still –

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The Tortoise and the Hare
Faith
Carol Doyel

Are You a Tortoise or a Hare?

By Carol Doyel – About a year ago I sensed the Lord saying – “you’re not in a race Carol”. Now I know we’re in a race to finish in our faith, but God is the author and finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:22) , it’s not something we can

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Women of Faith Blogs
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How Do You Get God’s Help?

God is all powerful, all knowing and all loving. He knows the answers to all the world’s problems. He knows your life and business and dreams better than you do. He also has more invested in you than you do. So if God knows our business, our dreams, our life

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Best Apps for Grandparents (Happy National Grandparents Day!)

Completely You: Lifestyle By Nancy Kalish and Benjamin Cappello for Completely You – According to Nielsen, people over 55 are snapping up smartphones faster than any other age group. That’s no surprise, especially with the slew of new apps that can make it easier to boost everything from your brain

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Women of Faith Blogs
Kathy Howard

Battle Against Excess – Watch the Waste

What color are Christians? I bet “green” wasn’t the first color that popped into your mind. But maybe it should be. I’ve never considered myself an environmentalist. Partly because I’ve linked environmental causes with liberal values and partly because I’ve gone through life with blinders on, not realizing the impact

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Faith
Heidi McLaughlin

Infinitely More

By Heidi McLaughlin – “Infinitely more” might look something like this: You ask your teenage daughter to clean her room and when you walk in the house your jaw drops because she has cleaned the entire house. You can smell a chicken roasting chicken in the oven and a warm

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Faith
Karen DeArmond-Gardner

Chaos to Castles

By Karen Gardner DeArmond – Come. Come away with me. Listen to my voice. Pulling her into the desert, he begins speaking softly to her, pouring out his heart. O’ how I have loved you, even as you gave yourself to other men. You turned your eyes from me and

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Women of Faith Blogs
Andy & Janine Mason

Three Keys to Win in Life (Part 2)

Last week we started on Three Keys to Win in Life. Life and going after your dreams is like running a race. You are the only one who can run your race. So how do you run to win, to obtain your prize? How do you win in life? Do

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Women of Faith Blogs
Kathy Howard

Battle Against Excess – Tune Out!

I have become a bit of a recluse. The writing ministry started it and I let it happen. I spend tons of time working at home alone. I communicate with people through email, Facebook, and Facetime. I do more “relating” online than I do in real life. For a while,

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Relationship Blogs
Ellen Dolgen

How to Care for Your Parents, Children, and Yourself

Sometimes, menopause’s biggest challenges aren’t related to hormones at all. Sometimes, they have more to do with our roles in our lives and families. Case in point: During menopause, more and more of us are gaining membership to the aptly named “Sandwich Generation,” a group marked by its responsibility to

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Faith
Heidi McLaughlin

Tension to Tenderness

By Heidi McLaughlin – My heart sinks when I hear someone say: “I feel so overwhelmed, overscheduled and fatigued that I am afraid I am bypassing my divine life’s purpose.” Each time I hear the framework of those words, a familiar arrow hits my heart. I know what it feels

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