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Courting with Intentionality

Throughout college, I watched as many couples were enthralled with themselves. Many began dating and quickly forgot all their other friends, spending every waking moment with each other. I never dated in college, but I hoped that once I met the man God had for …

Living Together Before Marriage

Just because our culture has changed to see no shame in living together before marriage, does not mean that God has changed his inerrant Word. “Every word of God proves true; He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.” Proverbs 30:5  What’s …

Physical and Emotional Healing

For me, single motherhood brought joys, trials, and new life. Happy about leaving a marriage of disparage and abuse, I had dreams of sovereign self-sufficiency. I fantasized about being the modern “Mary Tyler Moore” working woman mixed with “Shirley Partridge,” the best single mother on …

Mission: Hospitality

Last year, I experienced one of life’s major moments: I bought a home. As a single-again woman, I beamed with pride on closing day. For most of the five years after my divorce, I lived in a decent-sized apartment. But I didn’t let that stop …

Lonely Holidays, Happy Holidays

With the holiday season can come lonely times for single-again adults. It does not matter if you are widowed or divorced, the loneliness is the same. It can create an emotional roller coaster for the one who is facing another evening alone. Others are rushing around …

Love, God

On Tuesday a moving post on the importance of waiting on God was shared by a reader. It wasn’t  long before I began receiving requests for the ‘letter from God’ the author spoke of receiving at youth camp. Today our writer is sharing this beautiful …

A Father’s Day Memory

As a single mom, I pulled together my pennies to buy the ingredients for a nice meal for my parents on Father’s Day.  Always watching, my three- and four-year-olds took note of this act of honoring my Dad on his special day.  The next morning …

Real Live Women of Faith

Every Christian woman knows someone who is an example of a godly and gracious woman. Some times that special woman is in the church, or perhaps has been a friend of the family for years. No matter how you are acquainted, she stands out as …