Category: Pain
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How to Deal with Unwanted and Lingering ‘Grief’ this Christmas
Christmas time can be a time to make and remember sweet memories even as it also triggers grief because of those very memories or lost opportunities. Typically, this is because of the loss of loved ones either because they died near Christmas long ago or because it’s one of your first Christmases without them. Sometimes […]
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How to Make a Change for the Better that Lasts
Months ago, I introduced you to my Heart Healing Prayer method that allows you to prayer journal and process through a struggle in your life. It’s one of the most effective and transformative ways I know, as a biblical counselor and prayer warrior, to respond to a problem in life or marriage. Happen to have […]
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How to Accept it When God Says ‘No’ to Your Prayer
When we process through a problem or confusing decision with prayer, we do so to find answers. To find relief, right? But, like the Apostle Paul, God expects us to come at these prayer times with an open hand. With hands that are not so much waiting for a handout as much as being lifted […]
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How to Rely on God in Troubles Like King David Did
Knowing how to rely on God can be a rather elusive issue, not to mention being hard to know how to do. So, as promised today, I will continue to unpack in my “Surrender Series” the final step in the Heart Healing Prayer method, “RELY.” As in Rely on God! One of the best […]
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How Praying Scripture Guides You to God’s Best Plan
Several years ago, I allowed two of my sons (about 13 and 10 at the time) to walk home from an event at church without looking at a map or formulating a plan. They wanted to leave early from a picnic that was being held on our church grounds and thought that they could easily […]
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How to Face Suffering Like Jesus and Why it Helps
This is a golden oldie I’ve pulled from my vault, written years ago. I hope it encourages you in every struggle and trial you face in life or marriage. Anyone who knows me well, knows I’m not much of a crier—at least not someone who usually cries publicly. But put me through a time of […]
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10 Inspiring Ways Troubles Can Be Used to Ignite Joy
I remember the moment like it was yesterday—the day I recognized the unbreakable link between troubles and joy. Ironically, that day and moment happened more than 20 years ago. 😉 My husband had just been called to pastor a church. And we were so excited to get started on that new journey. During those first […]
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Inspiring Interview with Faith Under Fire Movie Producer
There are two things that have been very true of 2020—people love watching movies and we desperately need inspirational Christian content. Thankfully, today’s post is about both of these things! Recently, Melissa Kerley, producer of “Faith Under Fire” and owner of Generation Courage Films, reached out to me to see if I’d be willing to […]
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How to Find Hope When You Feel Cursed in Marriage
I entered marriage with the mistaken impression that it would always feel much more joyful than painful. Ironically, my parent’s marriage should have proven the opposite of that reality for me! 😉 Don’t misunderstand—it’s not as if my marriage hasn’t had plenty of joyful moments. It’s just that the joys have ALWAYS been mingled and […]
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