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How to Maintain Peace Despite Your Everyday Struggles

Do you ever tell yourself you’ll finally have peace when the house is clean and de-cluttered? Or when the kids …

I’ve spent my entire life apart from extended family. No aunts and uncles living next door. No grandparents to babysit …

It’s Sunday before Thanksgiving, and the kids are off the whole week, and I just want to hide under the …

When your sister-in-law, who also has a bundle of children, calls to invite you on a girls weekend to the …

I sat in the quiet stale room of the hospital, six years ago, listening only to the beeping sounds of …

Something happened about six months ago, maybe even longer, time seems to slip away. I found myself lying in bed …

It’s becoming increasingly clear to me: life is most lived in the slow. Many things are missed when life is …

I hear him talking in the distance to an old friend on the phone. “She’s put the book thing on …

Do you ever tell yourself you’ll finally have peace when the house is clean and de-cluttered? Or when the kids …

The enemy has no new tricks up his sleeve. He is as cunning and shrewd today as he was in …