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2025-08-11T18:41:24-05:00

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When Love Triumphs Even In Sorrow

Last updated on: August 11, 2025 at 6:41 pm By Michele Howe

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You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8 “Sorrow can go only as deep as love. And always, always, love is the ground beneath sorrow as well as the sky above it.” Gregory Floyd Some years ago I received a phone call asking for prayer for a young couple whose baby girl had been born without eyes just hours... Read more

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2025-08-04T10:49:30-05:00

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Exhaustion: Rest for What Wearies Me

Last updated on: August 4, 2025 at 10:49 am By Michele Howe

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Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. Psalm 62: 5 “One of life’s little ironies is that some of our hardest times are when our dreams actually do come true.” Paula Rinehart Nothing compares to a sleepless night. Unless, of course, you string together a whole bunch of sleepless nights together right in a row, then you experience not only physical exhaustion but a special brand of craziness too. I’ve been... Read more

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2025-07-28T08:14:09-05:00

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Depression Is Not Forever

Last updated on: July 28, 2025 at 8:14 am By Michele Howe

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I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. Psalm 130:5 Depression is an occasion for re-evaluating and changing. Edward T. Welch Although it has been years since I experienced a season of deep depression (over twenty years to be exact,) I remember so much about that dismal summer when this personal tsunami hit me of out nowhere because it changed me so much. Like many folks, I knew... Read more

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2025-07-23T10:09:13-05:00

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When Losses Hit We Must Walk Hand In Hand With God

Last updated on: July 23, 2025 at 10:09 am By Michele Howe

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How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? Psalm 13: 1-2 This week was full of losses. Material losses. Political losses. Health losses. Relational losses. Each and every one made my heart and mind ache for relief. I felt like yelling, “I give!” to God so that He’d put a stop... Read more

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2025-07-14T12:44:06-05:00

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Identifying The Blessing Amidst The Bruising

Last updated on: July 14, 2025 at 12:44 pm By Michele Howe

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Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42: 5-6 It’s that time of year again. The particular season of the year when I’m prone to remembering some very specific difficult events and even more painful emotions. It used to be that fall was my favorite time of the year. But that was before my daughter’s... Read more

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2025-07-07T11:35:23-05:00

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Taking Personal Risks That Build Others Up

Last updated on: July 7, 2025 at 11:35 am By Michele Howe

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God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea. Psalm 46: 1-2 “Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. “ Thomas Secker I was afraid. I sat in the circle of women and listened to another woman talk about the difficulties in her marriage and I could hear in her voice... Read more

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2025-06-30T08:50:08-05:00

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Learning To Wait Well – When Inner Calm Trumps Control

Last updated on: June 30, 2025 at 8:50 am By Michele Howe

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Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27: 14 “How do we get to the morning, to the sunshine, to the joy? There is only one way. By waiting for it.” Ken Gire I hate waiting. Like everyone else, I struggle against the ticking of the clock when I feel such a sense of urgency inside for something to change or for relief to come right this minute... Read more

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2025-06-24T06:28:21-05:00

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How We Fight For Peace

Last updated on: June 24, 2025 at 6:28 am By Michele Howe

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But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3: 17-18 “I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for…” Thornton Wilder When we consider making peace with someone, what thoughts... Read more

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2025-06-09T08:13:25-05:00

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Finding Our Sweet Spot In Serving

Last updated on: June 9, 2025 at 8:13 am By Michele Howe

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“In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.'” Acts 20: 35 Your life has a plot; your years have a theme. You can do something in a manner that no one else can. And when you find it and do it, another sweet spot is discovered. Max Lucado in Cure... Read more

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2025-06-02T08:07:15-05:00

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Giving People The Benefit Of Doubt – Why It Profits Us All

Last updated on: June 2, 2025 at 8:07 am By Michele Howe

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Don’t lose your grip on love and loyalty. Tie them around your neck; carve their initials on your heart. Earn a reputation for living well in God’s eyes and the eyes of the people. Proverbs 3: 3, 4 Circumstances may well appear, well, “circumstantial” and still we wrongly decide to become judge and jury in one fell swoop. But, we all can remember those painful moments when we were “so sure” we understood a situation and called... Read more

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