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Fasting for Physical Health
Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are […]
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Fasting as a Spiritual Discipline
Why Should Fasting Be a Natural Rhythm in Your Walk with God As I was reading about fasting for better […]
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Why I Am Grateful for My Leukemia
Why I Am Grateful for My Leukemia Diagnosis Our therapeutic model therefore addresses the whole person, not just the tumor. […]
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Embracing My Leukemia
Why I Am Actually Learning to Embrace My Leukemia and My Emotions “Will my hair fall out?” Now that seems […]
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Breath Prayers
Breath Prayers Click here for a short video on Breath Prayer Being a Christian for over 40 years (yikes, I […]
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How to Cope When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned
When Your Life Unravels… Do you ever feel like someone took the neatly woven life you worked so hard for, […]
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Co-parenting with an Uncooperative Ex-Spouse
What if you are co-parenting with an uncooperative ex-spouse? There were many articles written on co-parenting that I read after […]
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The Best Parenting Book
Why Read Parenting Books? As single parents, we may feel alone in our parenting. I often found reading books on […]
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Coping with Shattered Dreams – An Easter Devotional
Good Friday Ponderings As we near Good Friday, reading the gospel of John got me thinking about how the disciples […]
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Single Parents and Sleep: Self-Care Part 2
Single Parents are More at Risk of Sleep Deprivation Not surprisingly, a study in 2020 reported that single parents, especially […]
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Self-Care for Single Parents: Part 1
The Impact of Self-Care on Our Whole Being Often when we think of self-care, our minds go to how we […]
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How to Study the Bible – Helpful Resources
How Do I Get Started? Dear single parent reader, If you are a full time working single parent, you may […]
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How to Study the Bible for Transformation
The ultimate benefit of first hand Bible study is that you will fall in love with the Author. Living By […]
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Why Is It Important to be Reading God’s Word? Ten Reasons
We need to be embedded in the Word to experience the storyteller’s mind. Paul Miller When I gave up trying […]
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Six Reasons to Begin Prayer Journaling
My Personal Story of Falling into Prayer Journaling Journaling is a way of paying attention to our lives-a way of […]
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How Do You Begin to Pray?
How Do I Begin? It may well be that when your mind wanders, it is wandering to what your heart […]
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How to Spend Time with God: What is Prayer?
Simple Prayer If you are not praying, then you are quietly confident that time, money, and talent are all you […]
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Single Parent Families and The Church: Why Make It a Habit
Because the place of worship is a place of witness-a witness that God speaks to us and that we are […]
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New Year’s Resolutions Are Out …
Practicing Spiritual Disciplines Are In In order to change, people must have a vision that change is possible… Spiritual Formation […]
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Parents of the Christmas Story: Joseph’s Story
Joseph: Love in Action Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. […]
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Parents of the Christmas Story: Mary’s Story
Mary, An Example of Courageous Faith When you think of Mary, do you picture a docile, passive young girl with […]
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Parents of the Christmas Story: Zechariah’s Story
Guide our Feet into the Path of Peace… He remembered us in our low estate His love endures forever. Psalm 136:23 […]
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Parents of the Christmas Story: Elizabeth’s Story
How to Hold on to Hope When Life Seems Barren Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled […]
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Connecting With the Parents of the Christmas Story
Being a Parent is a High Call As Advent season approaches, we will look at the Parents of the Christmas […]
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Survive the Holidays: For Parents
Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Driftless Area, Wisconsin Caring for Yourself We have covered gift giving and given thought to our children’s […]
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How to Help Your Child Navigate the Holidays in Two Homes
Two Homes, Two Holidays, Too Much? Does your child have to celebrate holidays in two homes, with two different families, […]
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Homemade Holiday Gifts
What gifts do you recall the most? When I think of gifts, I often think of the compost bin my […]
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Gift Giving and the Single Parent
How to Survive Gift Giving Season It is about that time of year for most of us that we start […]
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Holidays and Divorce: Happy AND Hard
Holiday season has arrived, at least as indicated by the stores and their displays. For many single moms and dads, […]
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Powerful Prayer for our Daughters: The “In” Crowd:
Broken Dreams All of us have dreams that are broken. For me, the dream of having a large family was […]
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Single Parenting Overwhelm, Tips to Help You Thrive: Part 2
From Single Parenting Overwhelm to Single Parent Thriving Thrive: to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of […]
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Single Parenting Overwhelm, Tips to Help: Part 1
Overwhelm: To Cover Over Completely or To Overpower in Thought or Feeling Do you experience overwhelm in your life? Do […]
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How to Handle Rejection: Human Rejection, God’s Acceptance
Rejection Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close. Psalm 27:10 NLT Did you […]
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Back to School Prayers: Ready, Set…Pray
Ready, Set If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of his […]
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Sending Your Child Clothed in Prayer
The Unknown Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin… Luke 12:27 I remember crying as […]
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Going Back to School for Divorced Parents
Back to School When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. Psalm 94:17-19 Open houses, conferences, […]
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How to Replace Lies with God’s Word: Change Your Belief System
Richard Bong State Recreation Area Words Spoken Over Us God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the […]
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How to Cope When You Are Missing Your Child After Divorce
Missing Your Child – How to Tame Your Transition Last week we talked about helping our children make transitions. The […]
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Helping Kids Transition Between Homes: How To Reconnect With Your Child When They Return
Copper Falls State Park, Mellen, WI Helping Kids Transition Between Two Homes The Lord will keep you from all harm— […]
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Single Parent Victory – Equipped to Lead for the Single Parent – Part 8
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:31 NASB […]
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