Hope Creates Lifetime Goals
When an author reaches one of those milestone birthdays, how can she accomplish some lifetime goals?
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Hope Recovers from Pain
We hate pain, but sometimes we must endure it in order to grow and learn more about trust. Pain becomes gain.
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How to Find a Legacy Within Alzheimer’s
The legacy of a family continues even while surrounded by the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Hope Respects the Alzheimer’s Patient
The blog post for this week was already written, edited and almost scheduled. Then I had second thoughts. It was a post about my mother and shared one of the family secrets she told me years ago. I felt it was a great post, and I hoped it would interest my followers as well as
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Finding Hope When Healing Delays
When healing doesn’t happen, we tend to ask, “Why?” Does God have a greater purpose in the process? Have we prayed correctly, cried out to God fervently enough? Have we sinned, somehow preventing God’s awesome power at work? Everything within me screams, “No! God is so much bigger than my attempts to justify his silence.”
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Hope Recovers from Fear
My son is sick, and I am afraid. Because he is a cancer survivor (eight years, bless God!), when something happens that interrupts that heart relief of his healing – my soul fears. Last week, he was disoriented. He couldn’t drive, couldn’t write his name, had trouble putting words together to make a sentence. The
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Hope Thrives Through the Aunties’ Prayers
As I closed my prayer journal, I thought once again about my nieces and nephews. These dear ones were the focus of my Sabbath prayers – the next generation that will love justice, show mercy and live as Kingdom-bearers in our world. Years ago, I determined to pray them through school decisions, career changes and
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How to Find Hope in a Published Book
What is it about publishing a book that is so exciting? Is it the booksignings and the speaking events or is it something much deeper?
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Hope Returns with a Bossy Mom
Even when her brain is infected with Alzheimer’s plaque, Mom continues to nurture. This time, I’m grateful for a bossy Mom.
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How to Celebrate a Character’s Life
How can a writer celebrate the end of a trilogy? With a little help from her friends.
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