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Beginning Again

Have you ever wanted to start life over again? I did. This is my story. I’m the third of four children. From all outward aspects, we were the average suburban family, living outside a large city in eastern Canada. But we were not a perfect family – we had our “hidden secrets,” and our “we don’t ever talk about... >Full Story

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    As a child, I was racked with loneliness, craving acceptance and approval. In everything I did, I had an underlying fear that people wouldn’t like me or that I wasn t good enough. I longed to know God but didn’t know how. I even placed an apple on my nightstand one evening and said, Ok God, if you’re real then eat this apple while I sleep!” God... >more

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    I come from a small village in Clare. My family was fairly well off and I appeared to be happy and well-adjusted. At fourteen, my parent’s marriage ended. I was heart-broken. In the area in which I lived, separation was not a frequent occurrence. People did not know how to react. I felt alone and isolated and became very insecure. A lack of self... >more

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Starting Over: Facing the Future after Significant Loss

February 13th fell on a Tuesday that year, but it seemed like my unlucky day. My wife of twenty years was divorcing me; it would be final in two days. February 1, my employer had shown me the door—on the twenty-fifth anniversary of my employment. Now, on February 13, I was in my physician’s office getting [...] Read More >

Church, a Hardened Heart, Alcohol and Hope

I’d like to tell you that what you’re about to read is really important and is going to impact your life. The truth is, I’m probably not going to tell you anything you haven’t heard before, but let me encourage you to read it anyway. Raised in a Christian home I was raised on a dairy farm [...] Read More >

Healing a Marriage

Story told by Tom Archibald and Suellen Beatty, written by Laurie Wang TOM: Suellen likes to introduce me as her first and third husband because it surprises people. I can see why some people think it’s shocking and I guess it is, but I am so grateful to God that I have the privilege of being her husband [...] Read More >

Finding Healing After Betrayal

Interview of Will Ludy* (names have been changed), written by L. Wang I was desperate, dissatisfied and in great despair that Saturday night I ran with Debra to the church for help. For 12 years, my wife and I had been hiding our broken and dishonest marriage beneath the veneer of the happy and “normal” couple. [...] Read More >

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