by Muriel Larson Saturday Interactive Link: Are you struggling with a specific loss in your life today? Need prayer? http://christianwomentoday.com/chat/share.html “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those [...]

My cell phone rang on Monday morning while I was working at a client’s office. “Lori, can you meet me at home? I’ve just been let go from my job.”

“We can’t find a heartbeat. I’m sorry, your baby is gone.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – there obviously had been some crazy mistake. At first I thought they must be in the wrong room. I felt sorry for that poor woman next door – I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes [...]

“We can’t find a heartbeat. I’m sorry, your baby is gone.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing – there obviously had been some crazy mistake. At first I thought they must be in the wrong room. I felt sorry for that poor woman next door – I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes [...]

Whether our sexuality was stolen from us or we gave it away, we experience a loss. But unfortunately many of us don’t allow ourselves to grieve those losses. Psychologists tell us that there are five stages of grieving; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Writing out our life map begins to move us beyond denial to [...]

Jake knew it was going to be an adjustment when he was awarded full custody of his daughter. He just didn’t foresee how tough the challenge would be to make a home for him and Katie. Jake soon came to realize if it wasn’t a physical need he was tending to, it was an emotional [...]

With each new year come resolutions from millions of people to lose those unwanted pounds and – according to the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association – their success may hinge on how much they sleep. The study monitored how sleep loss affects the secretion of cortisol, a hormone that regulates appetite. [...]

Listen to this devotional in podcast form. http://talk.thelife.com/blogs/experience/kindle/2007/12/27/the-candle-of-joy/ “Joy to the world!” We hear the refrain every Christmas. The old, familiar song suggests that joy has come because the Lord has come. Joy! Think about it. Have you got it? Most people I talk to these days answer my, “How are you?” question with, “Tired,” [...]

Everyone, at some time or other, experiences loss. Although it is an experience we all share, the type of loss, the impact of the loss and how we deal with it can be different. Even the same event that causes loss can be experienced in a unique way by the various people impacted by the [...]

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