Creating a home on (and off) the range
How does our relationship with God impact our every day? Here's how we're learning to grow in our love for the Lord and for others.
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As I start another year, I find myself resistant to making resolutions, gun shy of goal-setting and discouraged by my lack of discipline. Here’s what I’m seeking this year: more joy. I’m not talking fleeting happiness. I want that deep, abiding peaceful sense of well being. How do we get that? Taking a moment to…
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We can learn how to pray prayers that God delights in answering. These prayers always get a positive response. You may have to wait for the answer, but you can know that the Lord is at work. I’m not talking about making God do what we want, like a genie in a bottle. It’s actually…
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Have you ever felt stuck? Maybe you’re dealing with a lot of moving parts and things aren’t going too well. Or you’re faced with a huge decision and you don’t know what to do. When you get overwhelmed, it’s easy to numb out and avoid the hard stuff of life. But numbing out –…
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What do we do when things get worse before they get better? Just when we thought we couldn’t take any more, we find ourselves stuck in adversity boot camp. Several times in my life, I’ve prayed heartfelt prayers for a heartbreaking situation. And you know what happened? Things got worse. A wayward loved one drifted…
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Perfectionism: a disposition to regard anything short of perfection as unacceptable, especially the setting of unrealistically demanding goals accompanied by a disposition to regard failure to achieve them as unacceptable and a sign of personal worthlessness. “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.” – Proverbs 13:12 (NLT) News…
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So this is happening… I didn’t expect to be in this place at age 53, laid off from a flexible part-time job that fed my creativity and curiosity while boosting the family bank account (I previously wrote a little about my job loss here and here). Now I’ve taken on substitute teaching, which I like to…
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Who do you trust? Sometimes you place your trust in a faulty source. When I was in junior high, a couple of friends convinced me to sneak out of the cafeteria and check out the unused technical booth in the back of our ancient auditorium. They had done it before without getting caught and…
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How do you handle disappointment? What do you do when your carefully crafted plans end up in ruins? What’s your response when you blow it big time or a loved one smashes holes in your heart? What if the most difficult moments in your life are really gateways to lasting joy and peace? What if…
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Are you more likely to regret what you say or what you didn’t say? What we say matters. James 3:8 says, “no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.” Like every other person on the planet, I’ve said many things I regretted. When anger boils up inside me,…
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Farmers and ranchers are some of the hardest working people I know, but most of us city folks don’t give much thought to where our food comes from. No, I don’t mean Kroger or Dillons. My hubby, the Fix-it Farmer, and I are involved in agriculture in a few small ways because he didn’t want…
