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Hurry Up and Slow Down
Do you feel like life is passing you by? We need to learn to slow down and take the time to reflect on the blessings of our lives.
Dawn Ward
Jan 8, 20235 min read
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How to Live Beyond Your Limitations
What if we could see the “Limit-less” rather than our own limitations? Let's see our circumstances as hope-filled opportunities.
Dawn Ward
Oct 1, 20224 min read
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Immobilized to Move
This month’s guest blog is written by Lisa Wenninger, founder of Authentic Truths, who shares her personal journey of mothering two children
Lisa Wenninger
Jul 27, 20225 min read
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Seasons of Silent Suffering
This month’s guest blog is written by Donna Bucher, founder of Serenity in Suffering blog. In this month’s blog, Donna generously shares...
Donna Bucher
Apr 4, 20226 min read
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How to Disengage from Family Drama
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great...
Dawn Ward
Mar 23, 20227 min read
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How to Practice Self-Care When You’re Child Is Addicted
This month’s guest blog is written by Barb Winters, a mother whose son struggled with a porn addiction. For anyone with an addicted loved...
Barb Winters
Mar 1, 20225 min read
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How to Pray When You're Falling Apart
“He wounds, but his hands make whole.” Job 5:18 (NKJV) “Lord, I don’t know how to pray. I don’t know what to ask for.” Overwhelming...
Dawn Ward
Feb 5, 20223 min read
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New Beginnings: How to Have Faith When Starting Over
“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the...
Dawn Ward
Jan 5, 20227 min read
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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...
Dawn Ward
Nov 15, 20213 min read
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Having Difficult Conversations: How to Reason with Unreasonable People
“ Shh!” I hear the Lord’s gentle rebuke as my urge to respond takes over my ability to reason. The better choice would be to stop talking...
Dawn Ward
Jul 5, 20217 min read
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Book Review: Overcoming the Narcissist and Other Domestic Abusers
Overcoming the Narcissist, Sociopath, Psychopath, and Other Domestic Abusers: The Comprehensive Handbook to Recognize, Remove, and...
Dawn Ward
Nov 22, 20204 min read
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The Faith To Face Giants
Recommended reading: 1 Samuel 16-17 “David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come...
Dawn Ward
Jul 24, 20204 min read
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The Ripple Effect of Living with Addiction
"He leads me beside the still waters." Psalms 23:2 "A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expand across the water when an...
Dawn Ward
Aug 13, 20194 min read
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God’s Grace For Our Loved Ones
“But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace..." Galatians 1:15 NLT Grace meaning- God's...
Dawn Ward
Jul 1, 20193 min read
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Living With Rejection
Growing up in an alcoholic home, I developed a coping mechanism for dealing with rejection.
Dawn Ward
Apr 1, 20194 min read
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Unfailing Strength
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at a proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 Worn Out Life...
Dawn Ward
Mar 16, 20194 min read
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Why I Did Away With Tough Love
When I raised my children, tough love was a term floating around. It was now time to decide if it was something I would need to implement.
Dawn Ward
Mar 9, 20195 min read
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The Cure for Anxiety
“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” Psalm 94:19 NIV An Anxious World Anxiety is a very real emotion...
Dawn Ward
Feb 10, 20195 min read
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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...
Dawn Ward
Jan 25, 20193 min read
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The Day Addiction Knocked At Our Door
I will never forget the day addiction knocked at our door for the first time. It came in quietly, unannounced.
Dawn Ward
Nov 9, 20186 min read
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