top of page
Dawn R. Ward
Search
Amber Parker
Dec 38 min read
Caregiving for Mental Illness During the Holidays
The holidays can be challenging for everyone, especially if your loved one is struggling with mental illness.
25 views
Dawn Ward
Jun 37 min read
How to Surrender Our Lives to God
But what about surrendering our will to God and to his plans? Do we willingly submit and lay down our own plans to yield to Him?
191 views
Melanie Makovsky
Jan 298 min read
Burning Bushes: Believing and Accepting God’s Unexpected Invitations
And when I’m looking at my schedule on any given morning, I am usually interrupted at least once.
52 views
Dawn Ward
Jan 144 min read
Longing For Home-Awaiting His Return
It’s easy to want to give up. To throw in the towel. We have all said at one point or another, “I just want to go home and be with the Lord.
47 views
Dawn Ward
Dec 18, 20238 min read
How to Manage Expectations When the Holidays are Hard
Learning how to manage our expectations during the holiday season means we will come to accept that things may not always be going our way.
87 views
Dawn Ward
May 8, 202310 min read
A Mother's Day Prayer for Struggling Moms
"This is the word of the LORD your Maker, the one who formed you from the womb: He will help you. Do not fear, Jacob my servant, Jeshurun...
127 views
Mary Rooney Armand
May 2, 20225 min read
How to Find Friends Through Times of Change
Guest Blog by Mary Rooney Armand of Butterfly Living As far as I know, there aren’t many classes or instruction manuals on how to find...
49 views
Dawn Ward
Nov 15, 20213 min read
How to Handle Seasons of Change in Your Life
“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT Lately, my thoughts seem to be...
46 views
Dawn Ward
Jul 2, 20194 min read
She Can Laugh At Days To Come
"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." Proverbs 31:25 NIV Happy Fourth of July! Another holiday...
26 views
Dawn Ward
Mar 31, 20194 min read
Living With Rejection
Growing up in an alcoholic home, I developed a coping mechanism for dealing with rejection.
113 views
Dawn Ward
Jan 25, 20193 min read
A Deeper Grief
and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a...
11 views
Dawn Ward
Mar 24, 20183 min read
Our Shame-breaker
“fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and...
30 views
bottom of page