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Keeping it simple: Money matters and words from the heart
Keeping it simple: Money matters and words from the heart Many years ago, I went through a Compass Financial Ministries small group study. There are many good resources out there on how to manage your...
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A Time for Everything
“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.” Ecclesiastes 3:4 A season of mourning used to be practiced in our country as a time set aside for people to show the...
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Six Steps to Intentional Marriage
Corporations and organizations spend time and money on developing strategic planning processes. After all, if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you get there? It seems only logical to do it...
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Delayed Gratification
It’s spring and my mailbox is filled with catalogs offering warm-weather clothing, kitchen accessories, outdoor furniture, seeds, gardening supplies and farm equipment, among a multitude of other...
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Practicing Hospitality not Entertaining
My first year or two as a new bride in a small, Southern town found me shuffling through etiquette books so I could learn the proper way to entertain. My husband was a businessman, so there were...
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A Proximity Problem
In the day and age of easy travel and global connection through email and texting, it is not uncommon to have good friends in other parts of the world. Two of my best friends live in Texas and...
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Six Steps for Creating a Technology Privet Hedge
We all need a little extra margin in our lives these days, especially with the ever-infringing advance in technology. What once promised to make our lives easier and more efficient has eaten away our...
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Fifteen Steps to Canning Green Beans
When it comes to canning, many people have heard the horror stories about exploding pressure cookers and are wary about the process. But this wonderful method of food preservation is quite easy if you...
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Cutting the Good to Get the Best | Wisdom from Italy
Cutting the Good to Get the Best | Wisdom from Italy While traveling the back roads of Italy last month, my husband and I enjoyed driving the small gravel paths that led through vast olive groves and...
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Distracted by the Details | Hospitality vs Entertaining
The scripture about Mary and Martha in Luke 10:38-42 has always troubled me. It goes like this: “Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her...
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