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It’s Time to Get Excited About Forgiveness!
Hard. Difficult Excruciating. Impossible. I've heard forgiveness described as all of these things and more. I don't think I've ever heard even one person describe it as exciting, unless they are speaking of the fact that they are excited that God forgave their own...
7 Ways to Free Yourself
from a Controlling Leader
Controlling leaders are out of style...not to mention ungodly! I've heard it said that you can control, or you can lead...but you can't do both. I believe this. Because to control is not really to lead. The greatest leaders know that their role is not to control, it...
How an Agnostic Helps Me
Be a Better Minister
Laura Dennis and I first met in the blogging community. Both of us are writers, her being a popular adoption, adoptee, and parenting writer, and me being a writer in several genres including Christian living as well as adoptee issues. Since we've been friends we have...
3 Reasons a Dog Means the World
My holiday break wasn't as it normally is -- a rest -- because our dog Manny (a four-year-old English bulldog) got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized several times. He swallowed a ham bone a few days before Christmas, and it messed him up, big time. He needed...
I’m Ready to Calm Down
One of my goals in 2024 is to be more like my friend, Cindy Georg. Not to copy her or be "just like her." I'm a big fan of being wholeheartedly oneself. But I'm also about learning from the example of others in an effort to grow. Cindy is a person who is in God's Word...
Tried and True Tips for a
Fabulous Holiday with Your Spouse!
We learn as much from failures in life as we do from successes. Probably more. So this is not a "my spouse and I do everything perfectly and always have the grandest holidays ever," post. This is based on real-life experiences in a marriage and home that has ups and...
How to Stay Sane During the Holidays
If you came to my house you might believe I am so in love with the trappings of Christmas, I could never do without them. You'd be wrong. Despite the fact that our home is decorated with five fully decorated Christmas trees inside, and lots of other holiday...
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Become Your Most Authentic Self
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Are you tired of being who and what others expect you to be, instead of who God created you to be?
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It's time to break free and finally live according to your divine design!
