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Five Beautiful Prayers That Can Remove Satan’s Seeds from our Hearts
How do you overcome doubt when the unexpected happens and God seems silent? Perhaps unbelief settles in the soil of your heart--having been catapulted there by anxiety, depression, or an unwelcome health crisis. Or maybe you wrestle with other seeds the Enemy plants...
7 Ways to Avoid the Seven Year Itch–Any Year of Your Marriage (Popular Series Re-post)
As a young military couple Dave and I made four moves, had two children, lived through three hurricanes, and experienced two deployments--all within our first seven years of marriage. Our life was exciting, tiring, and unpredictable--and we loved sharing it....
When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
I methodically fold each piece of laundry--bending, creasing, aligning edges--and wish life would align as closely to my hopes. If only the loose ends left from the hard, dirty places of living could be trimmed as easily as the loose ends left at the bottom of my...
Tours, Transitions, and Desert Storms (Re-deployed Post)
Transition--the uncomfortable place I find myself when the latest move, deployment, or reunion requires adjustment. As with most military families, one of the most challenging transitions for our family involved the return of my husband from his tour. This doesn’t...
Becoming More
Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray— I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. -Charles Wesley - We are...
Wounded for the Wounded
He does not cast away, nor crush, nor condemn the wounded in conscience, those who are terrified in view of their sins; the weak in faith and practice, but watches over and cherishes them, makes them whole, and affectionately embraces them. -Luther Each tear that...
Surviving the Storms–Family Strife
Strife seems to build like a summer rainstorm in the Rockies-slowly, visibly. Once in a while the clouds drift by merely casting threatening shadows, but other times it seems as if there is nowhere to hide. Even the house shakes beneath the rumbles of poorly managed...
