Holiday stress is real. I experience indescribable joy when all the family gathers, cross my heart and hope for holiday pie—but dang it can be hard too! Today’s post shares two important prayers to encourage and carry us through one of the most wonderful but busiest times of the year....
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“You should never work harder than the person you’re trying to help.” Talk about a pearl of wisdom. This truth leads to another powerful truth about helping others…...
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I was scheduled to have my liver removed in thirty minutes so my hurried behavior was justified. I’m fibbing of course, but maybe something as grave as that would excuse my poor behavior. The young man that was checking my plethora of produce was painstakingly slow. I mean “let’s defy physics” kind of slow. I didn’t say anything unkind....
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Sometimes the world feels angry, doesn't it? Brows are furrowed, voices are raised. Angry words followed by exclamation points are left in social threads. You and I may not be able to fix all the anger but I believe there is a salve. And it's something each and every one of us is capable of doing...
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I know, you know, we ALL know that none of us is immune to being “the difficult one”. I’m certain I’m a burr in someone else’s side. But mercy, there are times it seems that the people we do life with---Just. Don’t. Get. It. There are a couple of ways we can deal with that...
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“I want to be the fun one.” The words I spoke to my hubby were powered more by a sigh than vocalized breath. My amazing guy was about to take the kids on an outing. I was thrilled and crushed all at the same time. There are plenty of circumstances (outside of motherhood) that can cause the “should do” and...
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Someone once told me that the nuclear bomb of all words to drop in a marriage is the “D” word. Divorce for highly happily married couples is never an option. As one couple said, “When marriage is forever, the only option is ‘Let’s work through it.” Commitment in the relationship allows both parties to become completely emotionally invested. Research says… ...
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“Lord, what do you want me to do? Every fiber in my being thinks this is not the best decision for this person but I’m not sure what, if anything, I should say?” Have you ever been there? Me too. God's response to me was loud and clear. You may already know how He responded. "Trust the soup sister. Trust...
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The holidays are always hard when it comes to missing those we love. How about you? Is there someone you miss? If you're like me sometimes the "lonely's" make me forget what I know to be true, and it is this...
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The sign read, “Lost but headed in the right direction.” God must have swept in and placed that sucker right where He knew I’d see it. He was intimately acquainted with how I’d been feeling the past month, or two…or ten. I had been feeling lost...
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