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		<title>God Is Always With You: Finding Peace in His Presence Every Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/be-encouraged-by-the-fact-that-God-is-always-by-your-side-150x150.avif" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual not-transparent wp-post-image" alt="be encouraged by the fact that God is always by your side" style="--dominant-color: #dbbe9a;display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/be-encouraged-by-the-fact-that-God-is-always-by-your-side-150x150.avif 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/be-encouraged-by-the-fact-that-God-is-always-by-your-side-300x300.avif 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-has-transparency="false" data-dominant-color="dbbe9a" /><p>With&#8230; Being with others is one of my favorite things in life. And we have a God who is always with us. Truly, we can find peace in His presence every single day. It&#8217;s what we have been talking about all week on social media.  Let&#8217;s focus in on this<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/god-is-always-with-you-finding-peace-in-his-presence-every-day/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>How to Find More Treasure in the Dark Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/are-there-treasures-even-when-not-in-the-light-150x150.webp" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual not-transparent wp-post-image" alt="are there treasures even when not in the light" style="--dominant-color: #453223;display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/are-there-treasures-even-when-not-in-the-light-150x150.webp 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/are-there-treasures-even-when-not-in-the-light-300x300.webp 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-has-transparency="false" data-dominant-color="453223" /><p>How to Find More Treasure in the Dark Season. Let’s be honest. There are days when walking with Jesus doesn’t feel like victory songs and mountaintops. It feels like dragging your feet through gravel with lungs that can’t quite catch a full breath. Faith isn’t shiny in those moments; it’s<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/how-to-find-more-treasure-in-the-dark-season/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Find Surprising Joy When Life Doesn’t Go as Expected</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/keeping-hope-and-joy-alive-in-the-twists-and-turns-150x150.webp" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual not-transparent wp-post-image" alt="keeping hope and joy alive in the twists and turns" style="--dominant-color: #988d6c;display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/keeping-hope-and-joy-alive-in-the-twists-and-turns-150x150.webp 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/keeping-hope-and-joy-alive-in-the-twists-and-turns-300x300.webp 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-has-transparency="false" data-dominant-color="988d6c" /><p>Finding Joy When Life Doesn’t Go as Expected When I first began writing Empty Nest Blessed: 60 Days to Finding Joy in the Empty Nest, I had no idea just how personal the message of joy in every season would become to me. I thought I was writing to encourage<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/find-surprising-joy-when-life-doesnt-go-as-expected/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>How to Keep a Beautiful Melody of Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hope-in-the-melodies-of-life-150x150.webp" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual not-transparent wp-post-image" alt="hope in the melodies of life" style="--dominant-color: #707068;display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hope-in-the-melodies-of-life-150x150.webp 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hope-in-the-melodies-of-life-300x300.webp 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-has-transparency="false" data-dominant-color="707068" /><p>How to Keep a Beautiful Melody of Hope Do you have a song playing through your mind right now?  My husband always has one, and as he moves about the house, he is usually singing a tune.  Often, the one running through my head is prompted by the one he<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/how-to-keep-a-beautiful-melody-of-hope/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>How to Hold Onto Hope When Doctors Find Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/finding-hope-in-a-cancer-diagnosis-150x150.webp" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual not-transparent wp-post-image" alt="finding hope in a cancer diagnosis" style="--dominant-color: #eea7c6;display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/finding-hope-in-a-cancer-diagnosis-150x150.webp 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/finding-hope-in-a-cancer-diagnosis-300x300.webp 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" data-has-transparency="false" data-dominant-color="eea7c6" /><p>How to Hold Onto Hope When Doctors Find Cancer. “We found cancer.” The words no one wants to hear jolted me, and I was thankful to be sitting down. The doctor’s expression was grave as she reported that my routine colonoscopy revealed a malignancy in my colon. After kindly giving<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/how-to-hold-onto-hope-when-doctors-find-cancer/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Revealing Hope in the Midst of an Awesome Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/finding-hope-in-awesome-storms-150x150.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="finding hope in awesome storms" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/finding-hope-in-awesome-storms-150x150.png 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/finding-hope-in-awesome-storms-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><p>Revealing Hope in the Midst of an Awesome Storm Psychologists have come up with lists of ‘stressors’ that can cause serious emotional crisis in individuals&#8217; lives, and how those affect us, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Ranking in the top 5 are the loss of a parent, the loss of a<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/revealing-hope-in-the-midst-of-an-awesome-storm/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>How to Find Wonderful Victory When Suffering Severely</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/there-is-hope-in-the-suffering-1-150x150.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="there is hope in the suffering" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/there-is-hope-in-the-suffering-1-150x150.png 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/there-is-hope-in-the-suffering-1-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><p>How to Find Wonderful Victory When Suffering Severely Isaiah 43:2 &#8220;When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/how-to-find-wonderful-victory-when-suffering-severely/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Timely Words of Hope in the Darkest of Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/when-the-world-feels-so-dark-150x150.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="when the world feels so dark" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/when-the-world-feels-so-dark-150x150.png 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/when-the-world-feels-so-dark-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><p>Timely Words of Hope in the Darkest of Days What do you do when the world feels too dark to hope? I was only sixteen when my hope shattered overnight. It was a beautiful spring evening, and I fell asleep at my parents’ house. Then, at 2 a.m., a knock<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/timely-words-of-hope-in-the-darkest-of-days/"> Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Five Scriptures That Bring Hope When Life Feels Impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="150" src="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Verses-of-hope-when-life-feel-impossible-150x150.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Verses of hope when life feel impossible" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" srcset="https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Verses-of-hope-when-life-feel-impossible-150x150.png 150w, https://melanieredd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Verses-of-hope-when-life-feel-impossible-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><p>Five Scriptures That Bring Hope When Life Feels Impossible. Have you ever whispered, “I can’t do this anymore”? I have. Some seasons in life feel as if they will never end. When we feel pressed up against a wall with no clear way over or around it. But there is<a class="moretag" href="https://melanieredd.com/five-scriptures-that-bring-hope-when-life-feels-impossible/"> Read more</a></p>
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