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2026-10-17T12:06:23-05:00

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Seventy and Five Years Old: God Still Starts New Chapters

Last updated on: October 17, 2026 at 12:06 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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There is a small detail tucked into Genesis 12 that I skipped over for most of my life. God tells Abram to leave everything he knows: “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee” (Genesis 12:1, KJV). And then, almost as an aside, the writer adds: “and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran” (Genesis 12:4, KJV). Seventy-five. The... Read more

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2026-10-09T07:52:23-05:00

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Faith and Finding Your Current Season

Last updated on: October 9, 2026 at 7:52 am By Christine Moriarty Field

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“To everything there is a season,” Ecclesiastes tells us, “and a time to every purpose under heaven.” It’s one of the most quoted passages in scripture, and also one of the most quietly demanding: it asks you to actually know what season you’re in, rather than assuming, avoiding, or rushing past it. Image courtesy of Unsplash Naming a Season Honestly It’s tempting to name our own season by what we wish were true, rather than what actually is. A woman... Read more

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2026-09-23T16:03:45-05:00

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Faith and End of Life Planning

Last updated on: September 23, 2026 at 4:03 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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The Psalmist’s prayer to “teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” has often been read as a call to spiritual reflection. It’s worth reading as something more practical too: an invitation to face the fact of our mortality clearly enough to prepare well, rather than avoiding the subject entirely. Image courtesy of Pexels Wisdom, Not Morbidity There’s a real difference between dwelling on death out of fear and acknowledging it out of wisdom.... Read more

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2026-09-17T19:32:19-05:00

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Faith and Purpose in Retirement

Last updated on: September 17, 2026 at 7:32 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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Retirement is often framed, even in faith communities, as a season of well-earned rest — and it is that. But scripture rarely presents rest as the final word on a life. It tends to present rest as a pause before the next faithful assignment, not a permanent destination. Image courtesy of Pexels Rest Was Never the Whole Story Even the Sabbath, the clearest biblical model of rest, was never meant to be a permanent state — it was rhythm, not... Read more

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2026-09-09T12:52:12-05:00

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Faith and Financial Order During Divorce

Last updated on: September 9, 2026 at 12:52 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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Scripture describes God as a God of order, not confusion — a truth that applies as much to a kitchen table covered in financial paperwork as it does to matters of the spirit. Facing your finances honestly during a hard season isn’t a distraction from faith. It’s an act of bringing order to what feels chaotic, which is itself a form of faithfulness. Image courtesy of Pexels God of Order, Not Confusion First Corinthians reminds believers that God is not... Read more

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2026-09-02T15:35:54-05:00

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Faith and Financial Preparation Before Divorce

Last updated on: September 2, 2026 at 3:35 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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For many women of faith, the idea of quietly gathering financial documents before or during a divorce can feel uncomfortably calculating — as though preparing for the worst is itself a failure of trust. Scripture suggests otherwise. Wisdom and faith have never been opposites. Image courtesy of Unsplash The Ant, Not the Ostrich Proverbs points to the ant as a model of wisdom — gathering and preparing before the need is urgent, not out of fear, but out of foresight.... Read more

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2026-08-22T11:17:22-05:00

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Christian Dating After Divorce: Discernment Over Fear

Last updated on: August 22, 2026 at 11:17 am By Christine Moriarty Field

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Scripture never asks believers to trust their raw instincts without question — it asks for wisdom, tested and prayed over, especially in matters as significant as who we open our hearts to again. If you’re dating after a divorce or the loss of a spouse, and you find yourself unsure whether your judgment can be trusted, that uncertainty isn’t a lack of faith. It may be exactly the right posture to bring into this next chapter — humble, prayerful, and... Read more

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2026-08-08T16:29:37-05:00

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When God Doesn’t Give You the Whole Map

Last updated on: August 8, 2026 at 4:29 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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Scripture is full of people who were told to go before they were told where. Abraham left Ur without an address. “Go to the land I will show you,” God told him — not here is the land, here is the deed, here is the route. Israel wandered the wilderness by pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, a direction rather than an itinerary, often without more than a day’s worth of certainty at a time. The map was never... Read more

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2026-07-30T09:56:16-05:00

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From Surviving to Whole: A Path Through Family Change

Last updated on: July 30, 2026 at 9:56 am By Christine Moriarty Field

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Scripture rarely promises a return to how things were. It promises something different: that God can be present and faithful through change, loss, and seasons that don’t resolve the way we hoped — and that we can move through them toward wholeness, not just endurance. Image courtesy of Unsplash It’s worth naming what that means practically. Most of us default to measuring our progress by whether things are “back to normal” — whether the relationship looks the way it once... Read more

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2026-07-25T12:58:31-05:00

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Boundaries as Faithfulness: What Scripture Says

Last updated on: July 25, 2026 at 12:58 pm By Christine Moriarty Field

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For many of us raised in faith, the word “boundary” can feel suspiciously secular — like a self-help concept layered on top of what we were taught about selfless love. But look closely at scripture, and a different picture emerges. Image courtesy of Pixabay Jesus Withdrew, Too The gospels describe Jesus repeatedly withdrawing from crowds to pray alone, even when people still needed him, even when the demand on his time and presence was constant and real. He didn’t meet... Read more

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