Jesus wept” – the shortest statement in the Bible. Lamentations – the only emotion for which a book in the Bible is named. What is being said here? Perhaps that we are destined to grieve.
And grieve, I have.
My mother died by suicide one year ago. Earlier this month, I walked through my first birthday without her, a rite of passage everyone experiences with the death of their parents. At the shop where Mom and I always selected our cards, I read the “To Daughter” birthday cards and imagined which one Mom would have given me: she always chose the gooiest and most expressive, underlined the parts she thought most meaningful, and of course, wrote by hand her own message addressed to “Sweetpea. Read More...
Over the years, we’ve heard about plenty of extreme measures that people have taken in the name of their health or their weight. Some trends, like the grapefruit diet and the cabbage soup diet, are now understood to be more harmful than helpful. But other fads have maintained a strong enough following that they have endured—and it is in this category that we find juice cleanses.
While the jury is still very much out among health and nutrition professionals on the potential benefits of juice cleanses, enough people have done and loved them that an entire industry has blossomed around them. Read More...
10 Bible Verses for Financial Breakthrough So, before we dive in, let's remember that seeking guidance, comfort, and a bit of divine intervention in our finances isn't just smart—it's spiritually sound, too. 1. Deuteronomy 28:11–12 ADVERTISEMENT
“And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers to give thee. Read More...
