Faith

Feeling Grief

Grieving is a unique experience. It’s a process that is as individual as the people it affects. Oh yes, there are predictable stages … but the experience of loosing someone  dear to you is truly a very personal journey. Recently I said goodbye to my dear Dad. It’s hard to believe it was only a couple of months ago. I’ve processed a lot...

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How You Can Love by Faith
How You Can Love by Faith

This is Part 1 of a 4 part series - How You Can Love by Faith The greatest power ever known The beautiful ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Chicago was crowded to capacity with more than 1,300 college students and Campus Crusade staff. They seemed to hang on to every word as I explained one of the most exciting spiritual discoveries that I...

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I Wasn’t Ready to be a Grandma
I Wasn't Ready to be a Grandma

Facing the unexpected? Don't do it alone, talk to a confidential email mentor. It’s been several years now, but I can still clearly picture the day I found out my teenage daughter was pregnant. I remember her standing in the kitchen saying, “Mom, embrace it!” My initial response to Amber’s words were, “Yeah, right, that’s easy for...

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Helping Your Children Weather Life’s Storms
Helping Your Children Weather Life's Storms

The story is told of three young men who had a dream. Their combined life savings bought them an old boat and they were to sail around the world! Many months were spent repairing, replacing and refurbishing. Just as they were ready to set sail, news of an approaching hurricane reached their coastal city. They had a few precious hours in which to...

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Celebrating Easter with Your Family
Celebrating Easter with Your Family

Easter is a wonderful opportunity to teach children and grandchildren about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. As you plan for your celebration, here are some practical ways that you can emphazise what the true meaning of this special season: 1. Read Bible stories - Read the Easter story with your children/grandchildren in a story Bible....

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Flashback: Mary’s Boy Child
Flashback: Mary's Boy Child

She remembered him as a child. Like that time he tripped running up the rocky steps toward the market in Nazareth.  And the time he burst into the house – little fingers cradling the body of a fallen bird – his dark lashes blinking back big tears.  She remembered it all – the softness of his cheek, the curl of his hair, the way he tilted...

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Failure to Render Aid
Failure to Render Aid

In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save lives. Thousands of volunteers, lavish...

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Asking God Hard Questions
Asking God Hard Questions

My father’s suicide catapulted me into a time of deep grief, a time when I questioned all I thought I knew about God, while clinging to Him daily for the strength to get through the pain. In those first shock-filled days after I heard the news that my father had hung himself in the basement of our home, my heart would scream: "NO, NO, don’t...

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