If a month can feel fast and slow at the same time, this July wins the prize. When change collides for every member of your household, something familiar like "Back to School" sounds strangely comforting.
At our neighborhood store, bins of classroom banners and primary colored containers remind ...
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The ABCs of Praying for Students has started arriving in mailboxes, and I am so encouraged by the first feedback from readers. After all, it's time for our thoughts to turn to the approaching school year. Even if you won't send off your own student, communities are all about Back-to-School. Some ...
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What was I thinking? I'm not sure where I got the idea our kids would outgrow my worries. Now that they're grown, I feel somewhat surprised I'm still wringing my hands. Is it ever gonna stop? Prayer has been my greatest tool against the worries of life, especially parenting. From the days when my ...
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When I wrote the first devotional for the Summer Pray the Word Journal, Psalm 3:3 felt very personal to my professional life. "But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head." Haven't we all experienced what it feels like to be mistreated, to have someone else's choice ...
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Before winter left, I longed for spring. It's a natural urge, the eagerness to move from "this" to "next." It's a natural need, though, to pause on purpose and sift out sweet things from where we've been before we rush on. But it's not natural.
For the past few years, while online communication ...
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