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Loving Your Spouse Well When Your Nest is Almost Empty
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Loving Your Spouse Well When Your Nest is Almost Empty

ByLori Schumaker

This week for the Building a Lasting Love Story #MarriageSeries, I get to bring you my friend, a passionate follower of Jesus and a gifted encourager, Melanie Redd.  As well as teaching and speaking, Melanie writes at Ministry of Hope. She’s been married to Randy for 26 years and their nest is almost empty! Today,…

A Prayer to Receive God’s Grace
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A Prayer to Receive God’s Grace

ByLori Schumaker

As I sat this week in a puddle of tears on the laundry room floor, I’d forgotten about grace. The week had been long. My daughter’s unique needs had flared causing her to regress quite a bit. My husband had been out-of-town the whole week. We had several doctor appointments for the myriad of health…

How to Build a Lasting Love Story {Marriage Series}
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How to Build a Lasting Love Story {Marriage Series}

ByLori Schumaker

The world of the “How-To” is a dangerously slippery slope. It’s not the “How-To” resources themselves that are dangerous, it’s how we internalize them. Because we are living in a digital age, we are inundated with materials and resources describing all of life’s “shoulds”. 7 Ways to Keep Your House Clean 5 Things You Must Do…

11 Matters of the Heart That Simplify Motherhood
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11 Matters of the Heart That Simplify Motherhood

ByLori Schumaker

Motherhood. Like the wires and cables found behind most electronic devices, it can feel sprawling, confusing, and tangled. Our world throws information at us moment by moment. As mothers, we are inundated with parenting wisdom, advice, ideas, and sadly, comparisons. We feel overwhelmed and exhausted. But does it have to be this way? I don’t…