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Encouragement for every season of lifeUnstressed Vacation Tips
Taking a road trip or airline flight somewhere this summer? Chances are that if you have kids of a certain age, you’re looking for ways to keep them occupied while on the road or in the air. With that in mind, we’ve compiled some of our best tips on how to make your...
Why am I Overeating?
I am so full. I feel bloated and weighed down, yet I keep on eating. A handful of bean chips, the leftover broccoli, two slices of gluten-free pizza, a protein shake, etc. This was all after having a nice dinner of delicious homemade tacos. I am so full. What the...
Hidden In My Heart
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for – the evidence of things unseen.” I was talking to a friend last week, and she was trying to explain this verse in relation to our topic of the moment. She couldn’t quite pull the words up from the back roads of her mind,...
Three Steps to Help the Breathless Breathe
You don’t have to be a runner to be breathless. The woman in the express lane ahead of me was just that. She swiped her credit card, looked at me, and asked, “Do you have the day off?” “I do,” I said. “How about you?” She was flushed. “No, I’m trying to run as many...
Helped People Help People
I’ve heard several times in the last few years about how “hurt people hurt people,” and “we can’t give our children anything we don’t have and neither could our parents give us anything they didn’t have.” These two quotes have actually been really helpful reminders...
Proving a Point, Poolside
Sometimes women want to prove that we are right or capable of anything. Sometimes...ok, maybe often is a better word. This day was no different. The three most important men in my life were telling me that I “wouldn’t” do something. You see, we were enjoying an...
5 Things to See in Minnesota
Many Minnesota natives and out-of-state guests are looking for personal recommendations of the best things to do in Minnesota this summer. This makes a lot of sense, because when you Google “Things to see in Minnesota” and it gives you 53,500,000 results in .85...
Go Into All the World
Twelve years ago I sat in church listening to a missionary talk about things she had experienced as she served Christ in an Asian country. As I listened to her talk about miracle after miracle, I thought to myself, “I want to be part of that. I want to witness those...
My YES in Foster Care
Ever feel like you say YES to something and then wonder just moments later what in the world you were thinking? Yeah, me too. Like that one time I bought mom jeans and then looked in the mirror when I got home and thought, “Yeeeaaaah, that’s not gonna happen.” Or the...
The Cross Still Matters Past Easter
Now that it’s finally summer in Minnesota, many are probably fixing their attention on yard work or working on their garden. Easter was a couple of months ago, but it’s probably a distant thought for many of us too. I’ve been thinking about why the cross and the death...
