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Book Drawing: Overview of the Bible by Cheri Cowell
Yippee! It's time for my monthly book drawing. (Read below for instructions). I'm tickled to be able to feature and give away a book by Cheri Cowell entitled One Story, One Mission, One God, Part I: The Old Testament. It is subtitled: An Overview of the Bible in 12...
I Know You Missed Me But…
I know you've missed me--I hope! I haven't posted for a while because Larry and I have been visiting our daughter, son-in-love, and grandson, to help them welcome baby Matilda to our family. Of course, she's the most beautiful thing there is. In the meantime until I...
My Mom-In-Law Accused Me
I have long struggled with criticizing myself because my efforts and time spent feel like I’m never doing enough. I compare myself to other mothers, wives, writers, and speakers. I think, “Look at all they are doing and I’m not.” As a recovering perfectionist, if I...
Temper Tantrums! Yuck!
I stood horrified in the grocery store aisle. My two-year-old daughter was screaming and flailing her arms as she sat on the floor. I tried to whisper but my voice rose. “Stop it! You're not going to get cookies that way!”Feeling my face flush, I tried to avert my...
WINNER! and “The Blessings of Criticism”
Drum Roll! The winner of the drawing for Lavish Grace is...Mona! Mona, please email me your mailing address: Kathyspeak AT gmail DOT com. Thanks to everyone who participated!I couldn't believe how well I was playing! As a fairly new golfer of about three years, I had...
I Began to Cry
This morning as I read and meditated on Matthew 27:40, I began to cry.You know the scene. Jesus is on the cross: And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in...
Book GiveAway-“-Lavish Grace”
I'm glad to feature Kathy Howard and her new Bible study book Lavish Grace: Poured Out, Poured Through, and Overflowing in a book giveaway. Check below for details of entering. Lavish Grace is a group and individual Bible study with nine weeks of lessons. I...
I Confess
I confess. I lie. Of course, I don't call it lying. It's just exaggeration to get attention or to make my point more powerful. I was reminded of my sin by the vulnerable sharing of Cathy Horning. She recently posted the following on her blog and I asked if I could...
Fifth–And Last–Way to Restore Love
I'm titling this post "Fifth--and Last--Way to Restore Love" but of course we know there are many others I'm not covering here. But one I do want to include is: don't major on the minors. Unfortunately, I'm an expert at majoring on...
Fourth Way to Restore Love
We're reviewing several ways that we can restore the love in our marriages and this fourth solution is understanding differences. I went into marriage thinking Larry valued everything I did and if he loved me he would be motivated to fulfill what I...
I Don’t Really Want to Hurt My Child
I'm delaying the fourth installment of "Restoring Love" so that I can let you know about my story, "I Don't Really Want to Hurt My Child" being featured on the Vision61 website. Vision61 is a ministry of hope for hurting people offering practical help and the...
Third Way to Restore Love
No matter how many years you've been married, the third barrier to restoring love can affect you: boredom. It takes creativity and effort to restore your love by removing this obstacle.This can be especially true in...
Second Way to Restore Love
We are talking about different ways to restore love in a marriage and displacement is the second way. Or I should say, recognizing displacement is the second way. When Larry and I were at odds, I didn't realize this was affecting me....
Winner! And…Have You Fallen Out of Love?
Drum Roll... The winner of Erica's Wiggenhorne's book The Unexplainable Life is...Jeanne Doyon!!! Congratulations, Jeanne.Now, I'd like to begin a new series on restoring love in a marriage when we've "fallen out of love." I remember those horrible years when I...
Book Drawing! “An Unexplainable Life”
I'm so pleased to feature a book give-away of An Unexplainable Life: Recovering The Wonder & Devotion of the Early Church covering Acts 1-12 by Erica Wiggenhorn.Erica's book is a Bible study for groups or individuals filled with insightful commentary and...
If You Change, I Won’t be Embarrassed
Here is another post on the theme of "I'll get him to the altar and then I'll alter him." This time, let's look at the idea of "If you change, I won't feel embarrassed."If we think that, it's because we believe our spouse is a reflection of us! We may even have...
If You Change, We Won’t Have Any Problems
I hope you are being blessed with our theme of "After I get him to the altar, I'll alter him." Today we'll look at the manipulation myth: "If you change, we won't have any problems." Don't laugh. I actually thought that. Tweet that! That's what motivated my...
If You Change, I’m Assured Your Old Habits are Corrected
We are examining the theme of "When I get him to the altar, I'll alter him." Here's manipulative myth #2:If you change, I can be assured you'll never go back to your old habits. Tweet that!In all these myths, the motive is to alleviate ourselves of pain...