Lost and Found
It started as a sinking feeling deep in the pit of my stomach. I looked down at my hands and realized that the rings that were normally on my fingers were missing. I probably took them off when I was doing dishes, I thought. But when I went to look by my kitchen sink, the rings weren’t there. Twenty minutes…
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Prayers for Hurting Families
The home often symbolizes a place of comfort, warmth and solitude. Yet so often, families carry burdens that feel insurmountable, from separation and divorce to constant conflict and unmet expectations. What we envision as a place of safety and security often feels like a place of hurt and hostility. Without question, a day in the life of any family raises…
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How Can I Find Comfort When Everything Changes?
In grade school, I routinely feared the unstructured summer months. New schedules, new responsibilities, new commitments—the “newness” of summer life always unearthed my deepest anxieties, leaving my head spinning as I wrestled with the transition. Once I had fully adjusted to life beyond the classroom, I began preparing for a different change: the advent of a new school year. Overcome…
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Is it wrong to feel lonely when I have God?
My life is strange. According to the Myers-Briggs test (and anyone who has met me), I am a raging extrovert. Yet I work from home and am a single parent. For someone whose natural high comes from being around people, I interact with very few during the week. In years past, especially when my children were very small, the loneliness…
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How can I find peace in the midst of stress?
Often described as creatures of habit, we walk through our daily lives seeking a familiar rhythm: wake up, brew coffee, drive to work, complete key tasks, drive home, make dinner, prepare for bed—the cycle has become engrained in our minds. Yet with some regularity, this rhythm becomes interrupted by life. Sometimes we oversleep, hurry through our morning routine and enter…
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How to Pay the Bills Without Feeling Despair
Life often feels like a checklist of paying bills and meeting budgets. Just when you have a grasp on the "big ticket" items—rent, mortgage, car payments—all the little details become increasingly prominent. Phone bills grow, insurance premiums rise and utilities become harder to manage, leaving you searching for the means to continue checking items off your list. Earlier this year,…
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6 Prayers to Support Your Wife
Weddings evoke emotion. While watching friends, family members and acquaintances “tie the knot,” I often find myself captivated by the joy, passion and childish excitement they share with their spouse. Less than a year ago, I had the opportunity to share these same emotions with my bride--crying as we exchanged vows, laughing as we told stories and smiling wide as…
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