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Photoplay: Budgeting Relationship in 2012
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One of my business goals in 2012 is to invest more in clients and fellow vendors.... Read More + |
Community Post: The Last Thing I'd Ever Write
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I couldn't stop thinking about the note Robert penned on the arm rest of his car when he waited to be found. What would I tell my family? What would I say if I could never say anything more? Those questions have preyed on my mind since reading Robert’s story.... Read More + |
Community Writing Project: Before They're Forgotten
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On visits to my grandma’s house, I would curl up on the wooden bench under the carport and listen as my aunts, uncles and older cousins told stories—family stories about people like Uncle Al, who worked at the Wrigley Chewing Gum factory in Chicago and brought home giant rolls of gum to share; Aunt Lynn, who made apple butter in a big kettle o... Read More + |
Zdravo Means Hello
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“Zdravo!” Jenny* calls to me from across the downtown Houston café where she and her friends are cooling off with iced coffees. She’s tall and strong and wears a patterned scarf around her cropped hair.... Read More + |
What Peels Life Back
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On the way to her tonsillectomy, we laugh, she and I, talk of what flavor of ice cream she’d most like afterwards, when it’s all finished and she’s home, what books I might read aloud to her, and when it’d be best to pull up the old quilts and watch the screen version of Anne of Green Gables. I tell her that with us living in a h... Read More + |
Community Post: Keeping Score
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Lydia Will observes her children squabbling over issues of fairness. In the midst of the quarreling, she discovers how we adults often do the same thing: tallying up wrongs instead of loving the way God teaches. Read More + |
A Good Roommate is Hard to Find
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When a friend of mine told me a year ago that she knew a girl I'd love and who reminded her of me, I brushed it off. I love nearly everyone I meet—even people who are annoyingly like me. But Season? When Season added me as a friend on Facebook, I looked at her profile pics and read the comments.... Read More + |
Do We Need to Be Here?
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"Thank you for sharing this video clip," said a Simple Country Girl. "It's very timely, as I am going though a murky bit and wondering if I ‘need’ to be out here in cyberspace.... Read More + |
Mother of Nineteen
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Susanna Wesley bore 19 children—including John, who founded the Methodist Church. Her husband was often absent—and at times her only means to pray privately was to cover her head with her apron. “Help me, Lord,” Susanna would pray, “to remember that religion is not confined to the church or closet, nor ex... Read More + |
Playing with Life
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New England winters are cold and long. And in 1891, boys at Springfield College in Massachusetts were restless and rowdy. Enter James Naismith—athlete and P.E. teacher—with instructions to distract those boys. Now, James was a Christian. Faced with unruly boys, did he suggest a Bible study?... Read More + |
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Psalm 109 is David’s prayer when people around him were speaking poorly of him. Their criticisms, though untrue, were nevertheless painful (109:2).... Read More +













