I lived south of the Mason-Dixon just long enough to be introduced to the word “Hey” as a greeting – not long enough, however, to become accustomed to it. Here in New England, “Hey!” is the word we use to get someone’s attention, as in, “Hey! You can’t pahk heah!” A simple southern greeting would …
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Three Ways to Improve Your Thought Life
Do you remember the game “Capture the Flag”? As a young middle school girl, my friends and I played this at summer camp. Each opposing team would hide “flags” (usually just pieces of cloth) in a special place on the team’s territory in the woods. We would then sneak into the enemy’s territory in search …
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Six Reasons Attraction in Your Marriage Can Fade
Most spouses at some point inevitably face distractions and/or hindrances to sexual and physical attraction in marriage. I’ve encountered this at various points in my marriage too, but every single time it’s had little to do with how physically or sexually attractive my mate was in that particular moment. I think this is true in …
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Why Connecting with God Helps Us Have Successful Relationships
Authenticity. It’s a word we hear a lot these days. I think it’s something our souls long for. Yet, in the world in which we live, it is not something easily found. Rather, it’s something well hidden – from ourselves and from others. It’s an age where media and those on large platforms shout out …
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Live From Your Purpose and Live Intentionally
Just because I know my gist, my purpose, doesn’t mean I always live from it. I failed big time recently, and hopefully, learned a hard lesson. To review: Your gist is your why, your substance, your God-made-you-for-this-very-thing purpose. When you live from your why, you live intentionally. For some time now, I’ve known my gist: …
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How to Respond When God Says “Go”
It wasn’t until I was 12 that I realized the Prince of Egypt wasn’t just a Disney movie with an amazingly catchy soundtrack, but that it was actually a biblical story. And it wasn’t until I actually read the story in Exodus (and re-watched the movie on Netflix) that I realized how similar Moses and …
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