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Embracing the Empty Nest

I stood in the unfamiliar grocery store, on the verge of crying. My eighteen-year-old daughter had just chosen […]

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Exposed

“You argued with the interviewer?” I glared at my husband. Has he forgotten he has been unemployed for […]

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Terror or Trust?

Sheer terror filled my mind and body. I alternated crying hysterically and gasping in long, shuddering breaths. How […]

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Resurrection Story

“We’ve got to go. Now!” My husband leaned over the carved ash choir rail and whispered insistently. “Why?” […]

Helpful Books

Praying Our Goodbyes — Joyce Rupp A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 — Phillip Keller A Grace Disguised […]

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Rhythms of Grace

Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. . . . Walk with me and work with […]

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Why Me, Lord?

It was late when I answered the doorbell. There stood Karen, a woman who had been attending our […]

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After an Affair

“Please forgive me,” John, my husband of twenty years, said. “I don’t love Daisy. I love you.” “I […]

More About Forgiveness

Where does forgiveness begin and end? When the guilty ask for it? When the one betrayed says they […]