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Barb Lownsbury

Feb 20
4 min

Your Love Moves In

I sit down with a heavy sigh, trying to understand my mood. My head is full—full of the looming list of responsibilities that seem never...

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Karisa Moore

Feb 6
6 min

Light in the Tunnel

A family trip to a local indoor waterpark produced a valuable image to help my surviving son and me persevere. It was shortly after his big

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Sarah Davis

Dec 12, 2020
3 min

Realigning My Heart

Realization came that I was living in fear, and in disobedience of God's word.

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Barb Lownsbury

Dec 2, 2020
5 min

You Are Valued

The two younger children jumped out of the newly purchased mini-van, their eyes sparkling with excitement. When they see their new home,...

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Jenny Seylar

Nov 28, 2020
5 min

Down a Rabbit Hole

Finally! No more wearing masks, social distancing, or washing hands to the point of making them raw and chapped. This is what I long to t...

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Barb Lownsbury

Nov 21, 2020
4 min

Taming My Thoughts

In a world of turmoil, disease and reality TV, I serve a God who reminds me often that He holds me in His capable hands.

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Karisa Moore

Nov 14, 2020
5 min

Weary of Darkness, Adjusting to Light

After six years of writing, mostly about finding hope in the darkness that is depression and suicide, I was excited to experience....

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Sarah Davis

Oct 10, 2020
4 min

When You Feel Buried

During my incarceration experience I walked everywhere. It didn't matter that I fractured my ankle after rolling off the top bunk in the ...

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Jenny Seylar

Aug 15, 2020
5 min

After the Storm

I walked to the lobby and discovered that day had turned to night, and the trees outside were bowing under the power of the winds.

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Barb Lownsbury

Jul 22, 2020
3 min

Trust

When my life is hard and the spiritual tunnel I’m in seems dark, one of the hardest things for me to learn has been trusting God. Intell...

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Sarah Davis

Jun 27, 2020
4 min

When My Heart is Overwhelmed

In recent weeks, I have found myself feeling like a car in neutral sitting at a traffic light. The light has turned green, but I don’t se...

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