by Kathy Collard Miller | May 18, 2017 | attitudes, book drawing, book review, communication, conflict, contentment, deception, forgiveness, fruit of the Spirit, gratitude, marriage, overwhelmed feelings, perseverance, relationships
I’m so excited to feature and offer a Book Giveaway of the newest book by my friend, Dr. Mike Bechtle. I’ve known Mike for many years and he is a communication expert who equips us with skills we need to handle conflict. His book gives...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 10, 2017 | anger, anger management, anxiety, assumptions, beliefs, contentment, demands, hope, Never Ever Be the Same, overwhelmed feelings, people pleasing, perfectionism, why do I do what I do
There’s a reason you do what you do. Let me tell you a story. I had signed up to take refreshments to our adult Sunday school class. The sign up sheet for that month had been passed the previous month and I’d signed up knowing I would be out of town...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 6, 2017 | anger, deception, obedience, overwhelmed feelings, passion, perseverance, pleasure, regrets, sexiness, shame, sin, temptation, temptations, values
I don’t want to write this but I think God wants me to because He’s been bugging me and He keeps bringing it to mind. I don’t want to write about what I wanted when Larry and I were dating. It’s embarrassing. It was an evening when Larry and I were watching...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 10, 2017 | anger, anxiety, freedom, fruit of the Spirit, grandparenting, hopelessness, overwhelmed feelings, parenting
Did you already put your name into the Give-Away Drawing for Raising a Young Modern-Day Princess by Doreen Hanna and Karen Whiting that was in my previous blog post? Don’t miss it! Now, let’s think about parental anger. One of the very helpful things I...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 17, 2017 | courage, encouragement, godly sorrow, grief, hope, overwhelmed feelings, regrets, strength
Have you ever killed your heart? (Tweet that!) I did, forty-one years ago, as if I’d shot it with a 12-gauge shotgun. In the middle of the night of January 15, 1976, I was sleeping soundly when the phone rang. I answered and my sister, Karen, whispered with a...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 27, 2016 | overwhelmed feelings, perseverance, relationships, temptation, temptations, trials
It’s no fun to be tempted. It’s stressful and the potential for destruction in any number of ways haunts us. Relationships can be destroyed. Businesses can be lost. Addictions can ruin families. There are innumerable ways to be tempted. Succumbing to any temptation is...