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When Hope Needs to be Revived
While many anticipate the freshness of a blank calendar, others struggle with depression, anxiety, and fear as the unknown of 2023 looms. In a world immersed in wars, mental health issues, hurt, and general confusion, many need hope to be revived. Do you? When Hope...
Get Ready to Rumble-Spiritual Warfare Series (Day 1)
I've never been a fighter. I'm the sort of woman who gets shaky when speaking with a disgruntled parent during a parent-teacher conference. The type whose stomach flip-flops uncomfortably when an acquaintance clicks 'send 'and fills the in-box with angry words. The...
Let’s Get Real Series-When You Feel Like Your Faith is Gone (and Printable Prayer Cards)
Three years of loss, heartache, and impossible circumstances dropped me in the middle of a wasteland experience. The questions we ask when we're distraught, grieving and disillusioned scrawled across tear-stained journal pages and erupted from the depths of my soul...
Let’s Get Real Series-Hope Despite the Pain of Mental Illness (and a Pain Hack Printable)
By my early-40's I'd earned a few certificates and degrees, four children, two dogs--and the unenviable position of being diagnosed with several disorders. Anxiety. Depression. PTSD. PMDD. Even a penchant toward dissociation. As a young woman, I'd been certain I could...
Let’s Get Real Series-When Envy Replaces God’s Everything (and a Downloadable)
The photo captured my attitude. Sitting at the kitchen table while my three-year-old brother tore cheerful, striped wrapping paper from his gift, I looked as forlorn as any jealous preschooler might--my sulky expression...
Let’s Get Real Series-Fighting Fear Battle Plan
Fear tracks my steps like a hunter. It knows my habits, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. Fear launches arrows of trepidation and dread when I linger too long in the wasteland of what-if-outcomes and this-seems-impossible probability. [bbctt tweet="Fear launches arrows...
Let’s Get Real and Link Roundup
After having read a number of reviews about a recently published Christian self-help book, I was struck by the number of readers desiring more authenticity. Honest sharing rather than humble brags. Heart-soothing truths realized and lived-out in the struggles to which...
