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When You Need an Anchor of Hope in the Storm
“Mom, we need to pray urgently for my flight.” My heart lurched when I read the text from my son. Since we live in the Middle East, I hadn’t noticed news of a hurricane back in Texas. Our family...
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When You Need to Stop Worry and Choose Trust
“Stop the car!” I said. My teen daughter had managed to hit the gas and make the car lurch forward in first gear, but we were going a lot faster than I’d anticipated. It was her first driving lesson....
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One Simple Way to Make Your Marriage Better
You wouldn’t think two eggs and a skillet would make me fall in love with my husband all over again, but they did. It wasn’t a grand, romantic expression that won my heart, but a small, daily gesture...
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Help for When You Want More Faith: Focus
My daughter woke me out of a dead sleep. “Can I show you this?” she asked. In my stupor I wondered if she’d actually waken me up to show me something on her phone. “This better be good,” I thought. By...
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How to Find and Enjoy Jesus in the Ordinary
Do you ever feel like you lost Jesus somewhere? I often feel like I lose Him in the middle of my daily crazy. Of course we can’t really lose Jesus, but sometimes it feels like we do. He seems close and...
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How to Have a More Peaceful Marriage
My husband and I recently celebrated twenty two years of a marriage that almost didn’t happen. After four years of a stormy, long-distance relationship, Jose’s proposal was anything but romantic. He...
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When You Want to See Life as a Continual Feast
Martha Stewart definitely does not live at my house, and neither does Miss Pinterest. We don’t have any picture-perfect fall decorations around here. In fact, I dragged Bob, our half-dead ficus, in...
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How to Break Free from Thoughts of “Not Enough ”
Last week I served raw chicken to friends who came for dinner. Yes, you read that right: Raw Chicken. Even though I thought I’d timed things perfectly so it would come out of the oven fifteen minutes...
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When You Want More of Jesus in December
The start of December brings both joy and dread to my heart. Joy because I’m all about warm fuzzies and family memories. Dread because the thought of Christmas crazy scares me. Maybe you understand?...
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When You Hope for More Light in Your Life
Back in the day when my children were small, an urgent voice would often wake me out of a dead sleep at night: “Mom!” I’d jolt up, wondering what emergency brought my five year old daughter into the...
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When You Are Hungry for the Best Bread Ever
I’m pretty sure God did not have low-carb in mind when He created me. He certainly didn’t have it in mind when He sent me to the Middle East. With numerous bakeries in each neighborhood and a bread...
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Hope for Christmas When You Got the Unexpected This Year
God specializes in the unexpected. No one expected the Messiah King to be born in a manger. Mary never expected an angel visitation, and Joseph certainly didn’t expect his fiancée to get pregnant. The...
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Hope When You Don’t Know How to Plan a New Year
New Year’s Day always catches me without a plan for the year ahead. While everyone else is talking about their goals for the New Year, I’m still recovering from Christmas. Instead of crafting a life...
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Help When You Need a Rescue
Getting lost comes naturally to me because my inner GPS malfunctions on a regular basis. This sounds lame, but I rely on my husband to get me places. Last week he was out of town, which resulted in my...
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Journaling: Why and How to Actually Enjoy It
Journaling used to intimidate me because I thought my journal would have to be a literary work of art to really count, and I wasn’t Teresa of Avila, so how could I keep a journal? Or I thought I’d...
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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Prayer
I’m ashamed to admit it, but most of the time I make prayer all about me. I come to God with a list of my hopes, my desires and my desperate longings. Then later I may or may not get discouraged when...
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How to Pray with Faith When You Don’t See Results
For that past year I’ve been praying for something God hasn’t given me yet. Has that happened to you too? I’ve stormed the gates of heaven. I’ve knocked on God’s doors. I’ve claimed His promises, and...
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Help When You Don’t Know How to Pray
Have you ever been at the end of your prayer rope? Need help when you’re fresh out of faith and out of words? That’s how I felt in the parking lot at Target when I turned my car key. All I heard was a...
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When You Need a Simple Gift for Better Relationships
What if you knew a simple secret for better relationships with the people you love? This simple gift can make us better wives, parents, and friends when we give it generously. It can make us wiser...
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How to Calm Your heart When Life Looks Uncertain
I wondered what on earth was happening when my husband came home from work to interrupt our homeschool co-op and ask me to take him to the hospital. He’d turned on his computer at the office to Google...
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