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One woman story of her triumph over disease

Christine Malinda Peart is a United States Air Force veteran and a retiree from the Department of Defense. All told, she dedicated 23 years of willing service to her country. However, it wasn’t until fourteen years ago that her life became challenging and scary. It started with repeated hospital visits for respiratory infection. Months later, …

Lentil Soup

2 cups lentil beans 1 onion, chopped 3 potatoes, cubed 4 medium carrots, diced 1 garlic clove, chopped ½ cup of Thai Coconut Milk Cayenne pepper (season to your desire) 2 Tbsp. McKay’s Chicken seasoning ½ tsp Cumin ½ tsp Curry 1½ Tbsp Burberry (Ethiopian season) Step 1 Boil 2 cups of lentils in hot …

Leave and Cleave, Part 4

Our parents’ influence is so strong that it can reach out to us from their graves. Sometimes we still battle with the injuries we received in childhood long after our parents are dead and gone. Even if your mom and/or dad are still alive, in your quest for resolution you will find they too were …

Leave and Cleave, Part 3

When you have an unhealthy attachment to the past, you’ll often find ways to recreate it. In other words, the rocks in your head fit the holes in your spouse’s head. Like a key to a lock, the past opens the door to all of our unresolved issues. In your mind, your perfectionism, procrastination, sexual …

Leave and Cleave, Part 2

Disease has a way of changing the appearance of things, and the sickness that has infected your marriage is no different. Your spouse, who used to look so good to you, now reminds you of an alien from Mars. Those eyes you used to gaze into now seem too big for their face. They even …

Leave and Cleave, Part 1

Genesis 2:24 (NLT) This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. So you finally met your soulmate. The moment he or she walked into your personal space, you knew something was different about this person; you had so many things …

Pain, The Great Teacher

Job 36:15(NIV) “But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer. For he gets their attention through adversity.” Pain is abundant in the world and in our lives. While I do not in any way wish to slap a reason on the things that happen to us, you have to admit that when …

Everybody Has Issues

Joshua 2:12-13 (BSB) “Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that …

Living With A Lie

Proverbs 23:23(KJV) “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” When I was a little girl, I would read the funny papers on Sundays. At that time, the cartoons were toward the back of the paper, along with the advertisements. I remember one particular week I saw an advertisement that …

Missing Your Moment

Acts 2:13(GNT) But others made fun of the believers, saying, “These people are drunk!” Some time ago, I watched the funniest thing I have seen on TV in a long time. The Ellen Show had a young girl on. Ellen gave the girl a map, a phone book, and a rotary phone. It was hilarious …