Faith & Relationships
Nancie Carmichael

Living Life’s Parentheses

“It’s in the unexpected moments where the best things happen” By Nancie Carmichael – Now it’s summer—blessed, long-awaited lazy-hazy days of summer. But if your life is like mine, life is anything but lazy and hazy. We are busy, we are scheduled. Yet summer should be a time to catch

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Joy Silha

Awaken Your Inner Cowgirl: The Woman You Want To Become

By Joy Silha – Who is the older woman you don’t want to become? I’m guessing she is judgmental, stoic, stuck in her ways and reluctant to change. But change is what keeps us young. So why do many women go kicking and screaming into change? Because it’s scary, we

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Not So Sola Scriptura

By Janelle Alberts – My sister teaches a class of 7th Graders about the Bible. Their parents make them come. They barely blink or smile until class is over and then they bat each others’ eyes out while shoving arms into coat sleeves and bolting out the door as fast

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Caregiving
Trisha Menoni

Summer Fun with an Aging Loved One

By Trisha Menoni – Now That Summer is Finally Here, It’s a Great Opportunity to Have Some Summer Fun! For an aging loved one, summer is an ideal time to get outside, get some fresh air, and do some fun summer activities like talking walks, birdwatching, and going to an

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Prude or Principled

By Chris Wave – I ‘m fifty-four and of the waning Clan called, Prude. Most of this antiquated clan died out with the Pilgrims and Puritans. Remaining clan members, yet alive on the planet are like Shakers; devoid of hope for species perpetuation. Reproductively speaking, we are in the grandmother

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The Writing’s on the Wall

By Leona Salazar – I admit it. I hate change. Well, some change. Not all change. I didn’t mind when carbon paper became obsolete and photocopiers were available everywhere. Try typing a 10-page Will with three carbons and no typos. It was a secretary’s nightmare. I didn’t mind giving up

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Faith & Relationships
Carrie Saba

Instead of enhancing us our stuff can drain us

By Carrie Saba – When was the last time you really looked around your house, office or car? Do you see a bunch of clutter or old files you haven’t looked at in years? Are you keeping things that you don’t really like or need? When you start to release

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Cruise Control

By Karen Lembo – We just had the most wonderful vacation–our first cruise. One of the best things was just sitting on our balcony staring at the blue water passing by. It was so great to disconnect from the computers and cell phones and end-of-the-school year chaos. Actually, I had

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A Tailor Made Suit

By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, While I was in Korea I was given a gift, a tailor made suit and white shirt. This is the first time I have ever received a gift that was tailor made just for me. When I purchase suits

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Faith
Olga Hermans

8 Bad Habits and What You Can Do About Them

By Olga Hermans – Would you say “YES” to the following statement? “We are created by God for progress, accomplishment and fruit bearing”. Ok, so if we want to be sure we are being fruitful and passionately pursuing our purpose, we might have to take a serious look at our

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Self-Check Time: Revelation 1

By Sandra Glahn – Excerpted from Sumatra with the Seven Churches (AMG). Two summers ago I joined a group on a Journeys of Paul tour because I needed to do some PhD research in Ephesus, Turkey. One morning as we crossed the Aegean sailing from Patmos to Corinth, my confused

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Thrive and Survive Through Multi-Tasking

By Susan Lawrence – Have you read the recent research that multi-tasking is bad for you*? Apparently, people who grow accustomed to moving quickly from one task to another are easily distracted by irrelevant information, less productive, and less successful on tests. Really! I’m offended. Who are the multi-taskers in

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Tapping into Supernatural Supply

By CarolMarie Smith – “When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, He saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” (John 6:5) Have you ever wondered why Jesus pointed out Philip in this situation where He soon fed

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I’m Losing Myself

By Marcia Rotella – Have you spent the past 25 years or so taking so much care of others that you forgot how to take care of yourself? If your wedding gown still fits and you have toddlers at your feet, then this post is not really meant for you.

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Renewing My Independence

By Shari Johnson – I have been told for years, long before I understood it, that I have an old soul. Now as I approach the 50th year of my mortal body I not only feel that I have an old soul, I am beginning to believe I have an

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The Powerful Second Half of Life

By Nancie Carmichael – My husband Bill and I decided to celebrate our Big Birthdays by going with friends on a “Footsteps of Paul” journey. You know, Paul the Apostle—the author of Romans, Ephesians, Philippians and other letters in the Bible that have instructed millions of people through time. I

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Faith & Relationships
Penelope Lemov

Empty Nesting: The bright side of being home alone

By Penelope Lemov – I used to joke that senior year in high school was designed to make parents willing to part with their kids. It was my way of taking the edge off the anticipation of the blues I would have once the nest was empty. When the youngest

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God Takes Away To Establish

By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God: In these changing times we may lose some stuff and more importantly, some relationships. Losing stuff, like a job, a position, having to cutback, or downsizing our standard of living is really hard to deal with, but as I

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Faith & Relationships
lb50

Surround Yourself with Passionate People

Post written by Leo Babauta, Post Shared by Southern New England WOMAN Magazine, http://www.snewoman.com/ Last night I had an amazing dinner with my wife Eva and my friends Scott and Jesse and their wives Chelsea and Joanna. The gathering itself was simple: six people, simple healthy food, a little wine,

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