In a society where it always feels like “engagement season” or people are entering in new relationships, being alone is like a taboo. Nobody wants to be alone especially around the holidays. It’s the inevitable that you will get asked the questions “you’re not dating yet?” “When do you plan on settling down and getting married?” And so on and so forth. In my particular circle I am the last one standing. As a Christian woman I come to this battle within myself and I am sure other women can relate as well. On one hand I get that small…

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“How does a woman display her own reckless abandon to God? Does she have to leave her family, hometown, and all her friends to prove such commitment? Well, occasionally God might ask that of someone.  Ruth had to forsake the familiar and comfortable in order to receive God’s best for her life.” -Jackie Kendall Man, that hit me hard this evening.   What amazing affirmation of what He’s been doing and what’s to come! Although I didn’t technically “leave” or “go” anywhere, my family did.  My family whom I’m extremely close to and rely on a lot, moved five states away. My parents and…

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By design we want the fairytale. Flowers, Adoration, Chocolates, Chivalry, Gifts & the elaborate pursuit If we know what we desire, why is it that so many women ­ married and single ­ do not receive it? Often finding ourselves in unsatisfying relationships. We attempt to pressure, coerce, and manipulate the man in our lives to become who we think he should be. Author and psychologist H. Norman Wright says, “So often, what a father gives to his daughter affects her expectations toward the men in her life. Similarly, what a father withholds from his daughter can also affect her expectations toward other…

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Christmas has long represented joyful family gatherings and sharing generational holiday traditions. Television commercials, billboards on highways, and even annual entertainment events portray happiness as intact families celebrating in peace and harmony. Grief has a way of shuffling up emotions during this time of year. Christmas, especially, can bring to surface sorrows that burrow deep within our hearts after significant loss. We plead with God to hasten us through the days of December. In spite of deep faith, many of us emotionally limp through November and December, breathing a sigh of relief as the calendar welcomes January. January gives us…

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Christian society has planted the idea that dealing with lust is mostly a male problem, and this is simply not so. During and after my relationship with my ex- boyfriend, the door to lust was knocked wide-open for me to enter. And although it’s been a while since we’ve broken up, I’m still dealing with lust, and such sin could have been avoided had I (and he) been more responsible with certain aspects of affection. If you’re currently in a relationship, and what you look forward to most is the physical affection, even if you’re not sleeping together, you are in lust, and not love. Looking back, that…

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It is easy to talk about faith and patience until you are in a situation where your faith is put to test. After I resigned from my job due to the apparent unfavorable conditions, everyone thought I was crazy and that I had made a wrong decision. I thought I would be at peace, but… worry and anxiety started creeping in, all sorts of thoughts started creeping into my mind and then depression set in.  I was down for a while and then I decided to go for a special service on Sunday where I heard a message about faith.  At…

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