By Nancie Carmichael – …This part of the journey does not require tools for building as much as it requires tools for letting go. Our family loves watching football—and we especially love “our” Oregon Ducks. I’m intrigued to see that in many games, the Ducks come out to play the
By Denise Horner Mitnick – When my husband and I were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary last January, I developed symptoms of a severe gallbladder attack. We traded the winter wonderland resort where we were renewing our love affair for a Philadelphia teaching hospital where I was poked and prodded
By Anita A. Chlipala – By the time I see couples in my office, some of them dislike each other, some wonder if they are better off divorced, and others wonder if their hurt and wounds can be healed. I like to ask them, “On your wedding day, did you
By Peter Kruger – A child visits a fairground and spends their pocket money on a carousel ride. They are told from the outset that the carousel would go around seventy times and then the ride would be over. When the child thought seventy circuits had been completed the child
By Beth Havey – I was ten when I stepped into the spotlight one Christmas night and performed various roles in Gian Carlo Minotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. My older brother John and younger brother Bill also performed. Our audience consisted of four very proud women—my grandmother, two aunts and my
By Janelle Alberts – Over a woman’s prayer breakfast the other day, I asked around the table for input about the power of God’s word. Specifically, did anyone want to comment on powerful verses they turned to in times of need? “Yes!” said one friend. “The one about how God
By Peggy Lester – In the beginning of my missionary travels, I went to Mexico many times to the remote hill villages. Some of the projects were building churches, different stages in the building projects, i.e., from foundations to painting and/or reconstruction projects. Children’s ministry was usually a part of
By Anita A. Chlipala – By the time I see couples in my office, some of them dislike each other, some wonder if they are better off divorced, and others wonder if their hurt and wounds can be healed. I like to ask them, “On your wedding day, did you
By Leona Salazar – I have lots to be thankful for and consider myself a very lucky lady. I’m married to the “bestest husband in the entire universe” and have a fantastic sister-in-law who’s more like a sister to me, her three children and their spouses, and my four grandnephews
How to Receive Spiritual Healing-Excerpt By June Hunt – No one is “born” a bulimic, no one starts life a sex addict, no one comes into this world an alcoholic or a compulsive gambler, eater, or spender. Yet somehow along life’s tumultuous journey, we can become hooked on harmful, addictive
By Lynn Mosher – Thanksgiving. Do we really give thanks? Maybe we should do as Robinson Crusoe did. In searching for something new to write about for Thanksgiving, I came across the writings of Daniel Defoe and his classic, fictitious character Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719. Defoe based
By Barbara Franzen – Though wanting a large family, God blessed me with one precious child. One child meant one chance to teach those values we cherish. As a young mother, happily going about the task of instilling these, I placed giving and compassion right up there at the top. Granted, I believed
By Kathy Bruins – What do we know about the Wise Men? During the Christmas season, we are surrounded by images of three wise men or Magi visiting the baby Jesus in a stable. The Bible doesn’t tell the story this way. The false beliefs we have of the Magi,
6 areas of your life where you can let love in By Carrie Saba – Are you living with love in your heart or holding on to guilt, anger and resentment? Are you suffocating the love your heart wants and needs to feel with a negative story playing in your mind? If you open your
By Beth Havey – Feeling overwhelmed? I am. The boomer highway is full of worries and tasks and when I’m on the net or tuning into TV or radio it’s job loss, foreclosures, floods, tornadoes and our sick economy. Though I know I am very fortunate, I want some good
By Patty Mason – Depression was a constant battle, bringing on overwhelming feelings of sadness, anger, even rage, and hopelessness. It crippled my mind, heart, spirit and soul and destroyed every part of me. When the depression hit, I was living a good life. I had three beautiful, healthy children,
By Susan Lawrence – When a person changes and follows the Lord, guilt and shame is taken away. The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Our faces, then, are not covered. We all show the Lord’s glory, and we are being changed to
By Anna Cook – Do you panic thinking about your age or revel in the glory of the golden years? Why do you panic? What is there to be so frightened of? What is so negative? Why do you find it so depressing? “Age is the acceptance of a term
By Jane Morrison – The other day I was working with a client, the owner of a massage and wellness center, and she was stressing out about how her clients push her to extend the expiration date on her special offers. Her sub contractors push her on the date their
By Shela Dean Boomer – The Baby Boom Generation has the highest percentage of divorce of any demographic, so much so that the term “Grey Divorce” has been coined to describe the phenomena. There are, of course, many reasons for divorce. When it comes to Boomers, however, for many couples
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