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When You Don’t Get What You Pray For

“Dear God,” I began, curled up in my big green prayer chair. From there, my praying went a…

When Valentine’s Day Arrived in a Combat Zone

Nothing touches the heart like a gift from a child, especially when kids are sending cards and letters…

When Parenting Is Like a Box of Chocolates

With this past Monday being “National Chocolate Éclair Day” and with Friday being “National Chocolate Pudding Day,” I…

When Kids Know Best

A gloomy, foggy morning in San Francisco. Standard issue for the City by the Bay. I swerved into…

When God Calls You to a Task

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we…

When Dying Is Taboo

It’s been more than three years since my brother-in-law Mick took his life. Like Robin Williams, he was…

What We Give–and Receive–as Mothers

It’s been a trying week. We’ve run too fast, and when we’re breathless, bolting from one commitment to…

What This Empty Nester Learned from a Family of Birds

My husband and I were new empty nesters. Our twins, Annie and Tyler, were leaving home after graduating…

What Is Your Teen Daughter Reading?

I’ve written and created many books for young adults, and I have learned never to put the word…

What Is the Key to Lifelong Happiness?

What is the key to lifelong happiness? Each of us might have different responses to that question, reflecting…

What Is Goat Yoga?

Thanks to Lainey Morse, founder of The Original Goat Yoga in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, this unusual fitness trend…

What His Daughter’s Brain Disorder Taught Pastor Chad Veach About Hope

When Pastor Chad Veach and his wife welcomed their first child into the world four years ago, they…

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