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Month: December 2012

December 27, 2012 by Brenda

Create Margins & Add “Me-Time” to 2013

“And then I need to add margins to my life,” my friend matter-of-factly said as she explained to me her process in planning the next few months of her life. For her, margins are a given. She wouldn’t consider overfilling her days or weeks. But most of us consider overfilled […]

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Categories: 2012, Reduce Stress
December 19, 2012 by Brenda

Ghost of Christmas Past: Jobless at Christmas

My most memorable Christmas was not my most fun Christmas in the Norman Rockwell sense. At Christmas in 1988 I was seven and a half months pregnant with Kelsey and Katie had just turned two. Gene had been laid off since October. Our finances were lean, so Gene and I […]

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Categories: 2012, Christmas, God is faithful
December 14, 2012December 14, 2012 by Brenda

What to Do When the Risk Doesn’t Pay off as Expected: Follow-up to the Art Conference

Last week Katie attended her first art/jewelry conference and I tagged along for moral support. Everything didn’t go as well as she hoped for. She learned a lot, but she also experienced major disappointments. At one point she questioned why she came. I ached for her and felt powerless to […]

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Categories: 2012, Disappointment, Perseverance
December 6, 2012 by Brenda

The Real Reason We Don’t Pray

In the past couple of weeks God has made it clear to me how little I talk to Him throughout the day. I start my day with prayer, but as the day goes on I talk to myself instead, trying to figure out how and when I’ll do something. Of […]

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Categories: Listening to God, Prayer

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