Gratitude Series
Cultivate year-round gratitude that will impact not only your own life, but the lives of your neighbors as well.
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This is The Hard Thing That Changed Everything
I began an elaborate regimen of drugs designed to treat heart failure. After the diagnosis, I started thinking about something I have never had: a Bucket List. What did I want to do with the…
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How to Steady Your Heart When the Future Feels Heavy
We had been helping our daughter fight a battle with a mental illness for close to eight years and constant worry of keeping her alive was exhausting. And now, we stood on the precipice of…
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How to Reclaim Optimism When You’ve Become a Pessimist
How had I become the pessimist? No one had ever called me that before. It had always been the opposite.
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1 Practical (+ Fun!) Way to Give Action to the Praise
As a young mom, I knew I wanted to instill that awe in my son and give him an outlet for the praise it evoked. This began our ritual of clapping for God.
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How to Rejoice . . . Even When Family Vacation Looks Like the ER
On one family vacation, our schedule deteriorated almost immediately. The first night in the hotel, our three-year-old rolled out of bed and spent the next five hours awake and in pain. At the ER the…
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How to Find Your Way When Your Life Is Falling Apart
Rather than confront the pain, I chased relief in an affair. I had made no effort to hide it, had been caught before, and promised to stop, but I did not. Five months earlier, alcohol…
