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What a crazy ride 2020 has taken us all on! There is nothing quite like a pandemic in an election year to bring on anxiety, fear, and all sorts of other emotions. I pray that you and your loved ones are navigating these unprecedented times well and that God feels...

Note: Part 2 of Mary's series "The Sibling Effect" will be coming in a few weeks. “Life is difficult.” At first glance, the first line of The Road Less Traveled wasn’t telling me anything I didn’t know.  But as I continued to read, I realized this book was going to...

I absolutely hated being locked down way back in March. With the threat of it happening again, I’m currently not thrilled about it either. It seems like a blur now as I look at those crazy Spring months. I was quarantining alone in my small studio in Cap Hill. Going...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love having a day set aside to focus on the things we are grateful for. It isn’t about gifts or shopping. Perhaps it is too much about food. LOL. This year, perhaps more than most, it seems especially important to practice...

“The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?....She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the...

“Parents have no power to mold their children’s personalities.”  “Instead, children’s personalities are shaped partly by heredity and partly by their experiences in their peer group.” “Parents matter less than you think and peers matter more” [in influencing...

We don’t all struggle with boundaries in the same way.  Some of us have so many boundaries that it is difficult to be known and loved.  Others have so few boundaries that they can’t say no and are consequently spread really thin.  And sometimes we have boundaries, but...

Psychological Script—"The social role or behavior appropriate to particular situations that an individual absorbs through cultural situations and associations with others” Oxford Languages The Stories Which Took Over My Life When I first realized I had attractions to...

In 1986, in my living room, alone in the house, I grappled with a powerful call on my life that I knew was beyond anything I was equipped to do.  I wasn’t really regretting my prayer a few months before, “Lord, if you will show me what works, I want to be part of the...