When You Desperately Want a Happier Ending
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When You Long for God the Father’s Love to Embrace You
When my husband and I got engaged, his friend Hal thought it was necessary to educate me on the ways of marriage. Hal was schooled in matrimony by his wife from Venezuela, and now that he was no longer wild and free, he considered himself a marital expert of sorts. We were standing in front…
4 Ways Love Can Be Your Superpower
As a child, I had a strong sense of justice. I lived in a home where the scales tipped heavily down in one direction, and I thought it was my job to defend the defenseless. If I could have had any superpower, it would have been the strength to make a nasty person behave nicely….
4 Ways to Love Deep in the Middle of a Conflict
His explosive tone of voice put me on edge. I asked him to adopt a kinder response, and he retorted with a sea of expletives. No matter how hard I try to avoid conflict with this person, a wide chasm of misunderstanding seems to separate us. I got up from the comfortable chair and announced…
The Promising Remedy for When Poison Reaches Your Heart
I almost poisoned six women at a pot luck. I didn’t do it intentionally. I wasn’t even supposed to bake. Normally, I just buy a desert, but the gal who’d promised to bring the sweet treat ended up breaking a tooth. At the last moment, she had to back out, and I was short 1…
5 Ways Persevering Love Makes a Powerful Difference
“Could you bring me some water?” he asked. I took the Bible off my lap and got up to reach for the plastic cup and straw and placed it right under his chin. My duty as “water girl” completed, I moved to sit down again, but that was when I heard my “tough cookie”…