God is FOR you! That’s what we talked about on social media this past week.  Truly, God is always and completely on your side!  May this recap offer you hope! Monday Words of Hope Because God is for us, we can face the day and keep moving forward!! He goes Read more

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This past week on social media, we focused on God’s amazing love for us. I thought a recap of this past week might be encouraging and hope-giving to you. I know it was for me. Monday Truth: God loves you. Period. Full Stop. First, God loves you. Period. Full stop. Read more

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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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How To Hold On To Hope While You Grieve For the past year and a half, the most emotionally challenging part of my week has been the time spent changing the sheets on my bed. Rev and I shared that bed for more than two-thirds of our lives. When we Read more

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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’ 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 Read more

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How to Find Wonderful Victory When Suffering Severely Isaiah 43:2 “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 Read more

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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 Read more

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Navigating the Unusual Intersection of Hope and Waiting… At the Intersection of Hope and Waiting I’m standing at the intersection of hope and waiting. It began during the first days of summer and is continuing ahead with no end in sight. The waiting place marks the passage of time between Read more

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Find Hope in Exodus: Transform Challenges into Triumphs. There are some seasons of life where the word hope feels like a stretch. You keep showing up, you keep trying, you keep praying… but under the surface, your heart is heavy. Maybe you feel unseen. Maybe even forgotten. That was me not Read more

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How to Have Extraordinary Hope in Darkest Storms Have you ever been so deep in the storm of life that you’ve lost sight of hope? It was a busy morning out on the water, boats and people everywhere. We needed to stay in the marina, but the ebb and flow Read more

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How to Find Rest When You Feel Profoundly Exhausted. Friend, I see you. You’ve got a list a mile long, and somehow the day never seems to have enough hours to check off all those boxes. Believe me, I understand. The rushing, the doing, the going—some days, it feels as Read more

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