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Encouragement for every season of lifeMarrying Your Money
How do you manage your finances in a marriage? Like a recent movie title states, “It’s complicated.” First, I want to start off by disclosing that I am not married and I have never been married. However, as a financial planner, a sister, daughter, aunt, and friend, I...
When Being Angry Makes Sense
In many ways it made perfect sense to be angry with God. At least that’s what a lot of people seemed to think. “It’s okay to be angry with God,” they’d say. “He can take it.” My husband, John, had just been diagnosed with a treatable, yet curable cancer after all....
Becoming A Dreamer 2: What Are You Seeking?
In the last six years since I accepted Christ and began following him, my life and WHO I AM has changed dramatically. I am not just talking about getting married seven months ago and forming a new ministry -- those are two dreams God has put on my heart -- I’m talking...
Homework Supply Hub
Maybe your kids are like mine and have an affinity for losing tape, scissors, pencils, and calculators. So what in the world can we as parents do to keep those things from walking off before the school year starts and the kids bring home their next big project? How...
When I Said I Do
It was a slow night at work and my young co-worker told me she thought she’d found the right guy. You know, The One. She asked me how long I’d been married and if we’d had any struggles. I laughed out loud. I told her that my husband and I were going on twenty-eight...
Summer Date Night Ideas
Looking for some fresh inspiration for date nights this summer? Here are a few ideas: I love architecture and I love history, so I enjoyed getting the book “St. Paul’s Historic Summit Avenue,” written by Ernest R. Sandeen, from my husband for Christmas. One of my...
When You’re In the Middle of It
I look down at the pregnancy test, bracing myself for one line, not two. We’d been trying to get pregnant for several months, and so far, it just wasn’t happening. Today was no different. No doctor would categorize this season in my life as infertility. But right now,...
Becoming a Dreamer, Week 1: Abundant Life
Even though I had been a single mom since (almost) the day I found out I was pregnant until about seven months ago when I married Dale, I have a confession to make . . . I have always HATED the label Single Mom. That one decision I made almost 19 years ago still...
Flourishing In God’s Power
Olivia Puccini is a wife, mom, author, and Missionary. There was a faint knock on the screen door. My mother rolled over in bed and felt herself sink into the depression that had laid her there. Her husband had left her for another woman. At the door waited her...
A Spot in the Sun
I love my front window. It faces the afternoon sun. And although in the summertime it can be unbearably hot, requiring the blinds to be closed most afternoons, during the fall and winter it is a beautiful spot to soak up the sun. On a chilly fall day or blustery cold...
