Oh How He Loves Us!

By Deborah Bateman – We can’t even imagine how much God loves us. He loved us so much He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross so we could be saved from our sins. We find this in John 3:16-17. For God so loved the world

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Relationship Blogs
Carolyn Henderson

Valentine’s Day

Considering that the holiday is all about love, there are a lot of people who hate Valentine’s Day — namely, single people who wish they weren’t so and don’t appreciate being aggressively reminded of it for the next two weeks. In my long ago college days, my dorm room overlooked

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Caregiving
Rhonda Caudell

What is a Patient Advocate?

By Rhonda Caudell – In simple terms, “Patient” implies someone who is sick or ill. “Advocate” is defined in the World English Dictionary as someone who intercedes on behalf of another. The Greek word for Advocate is Parakletos defined as one who pleads another’s cause or helps one by defending

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Faith & Relationships
Nancie Carmichael

Your Best Place

By Nancie Carmichael – Funny how some things stick in your mind. I was 23 and a young mom of two, and my husband had recently accepted a position in a church. I was a very unwilling pastor’s wife. I didn’t want to be one of “them.” Besides, it had

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Faith & Relationships
Chris-Marie Wave

The Great Key to Successful Living

By Alex Green – Submitted by Chris Marie Wave – At a party last week, I bumped into a distracted woman wearing a frown. “Hey, don’t hog all the fun,” I said with a wink. She shook her head and gave me a slightly embarrassed smile. “It’s just that when

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Get Out of the Cave in 2012

By Olga Hermans – The philosopher Plato wrote an allegory in which he compared people to prisoners chained in a cave. The only reality they knew was the tiny space of their surroundings. But if a person would stand up and break out of the chains, they could step out

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Faith & Relationships
Joy Silha

Be Childlike and Play!

By Joy Silha – My intention for 2012 is to “Be Childlike and Play!” It sort of came to me. I was creating a vision board for the year and noticed that I had a lot of childlike pictures and playful images. This showed me that I needed to create

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A New Beginning

By Peggy Lester – I love new beginnings. I must say the first of the year is my favorite time of the year. It is like the sunrises and sunsets except on a bigger scale to me; new beginnings in the morning, as I meet God and give Him my

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Faith & Relationships
Penelope Lemov

“Affluenza”-An Affluent Disease or Temporary Condition?

By Penelope Lemov – They are a two-car family living in a comfortably affluent neighborhood. With her college-sophomore son home for the summer, a friend was sharing her car with him. Though he had been unable to get a regular job, he had cobbled together a coaching business with a

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Faith & Relationships
Anita Agers-Brooks

Five Reasons to Unearth Your Dreams in your Fifties

By Anita Agers-Brooks – I grew up in a house full of artists. Mediocre they are not. My mom, my sisters, my brother – they could sketch, paint, sculpt, or whittle anything. And then there’s me. I am a cliché who can’t draw a stick person – literally. In junior

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Righteous Whining?

By Shari Johnson – Surely I was justified, I’m the Jesus Chick…From Whining to Winning! I read about an interview in years gone where Barbara Walters interviewed Barbara Bush. And in true Walters form she asked questions again and again about President Bush’s famous political rivals. Each time Mrs. Bush

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This Is Harder Than I Thought

By Katrina Spigner – “Your hands are too small to fix what only God can.”—Katrina Spigner I HAVE GROWN accustomed to receiving daily updates on my three nieces, one of whom lives in North Carolina, and three of whom live in Georgia. Not long ago, my sister shared a story

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Dream Bigger!

By Susan Lawrence – You can do it all, have it all, and be it all!  At least if you believe all the hype bombarding women in today’s culture. Women have more opportunities today than ever before. Women fought for the right to vote, equal opportunities in sports, and equal

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The Writing Spider Spells a Psalm

By Marcia Moston – I know she’s around here somewhere, and beautiful as she is, I don’t want to inadvertently stumble on her. Her fat, globular body splashed with brilliant yellow and black etchings and her long pincer legs give her a fearful beauty—best observed at a distance. She’s called,

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Faith & Relationships
Edwige Gilbert

The secret to keeping your resolution for a CHANGE

By Edwige Gilbert – Every year on December 31st, people all over the world make New Year’s resolutions. Millions of people wake up thinking, “This is the day I am going to do things differently!” They yearn for a new beginning and hate themselves when, after a few weeks their

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Faith
Deborah McCarragher

Weariness getting you down? Time to grab your yoke…

By Deborah McCarragher – Are you weary and disillusioned about a promise God made to you? Are you burdened for a loved one or a situation beyond your control? Often we begin to lose hope, and holding onto your promise can be difficult. Time continues to go by with little or

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It Is Written

Submitted by Katherine Swarts  – IT IS WRITTEN HYMN It is written in the heavens, In each star that decks the night; It is written in the flowers, Hued in endless colors bright; It is written through Creation, In each wonder we behold: “God Almighty is eternal, And His works

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A New Experience for Next Generation

By Peggy W. Lester – After several adult mission trips to Mexico, some of us who had children decided it would be great to introduce them to foreign missions. So, we rented a large, 30 passenger motor home and off we headed to Mexico. At this stage in our lives,

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Faith & Relationships
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