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World Cup Champ Olga Carmona Learns Father Died After Scoring Winning Goal

Millions around the world saw the victorious photo of Spain's 29-year-old soccer star, Olga Carmona, celebrating with her jersey in her teeth after she scored the winning (and only!) goal in the World Cup Finals against Australia Sunday. She didn't know at the time that her own father had passed away during the winning match.

Candace Cameron Bure’s Daughter, Natasha Bure, Reveals Why She’s Decided to Show ‘Less Skin’

Natasha Bure, daughter of “Full House” alumna Candace Cameron Bure, says that she is dressing more modestly than she used to.

Pregnant Wife’s ER Visit for Husband With “Man Flu” Has the Internet CRY-Laughing!!

‘My husband is on the floor, eyes closed, moaning, ‘Syyydd. I can’t see.’ Is this a joke. He has a flu symptom that doesn’t even exist. Actually I can’t. I should leave. Where is this dude’s mom.’

Brie Gowen

Brie Gowen is a 30-something (sliding ever closer to 40-something) wife and mother. When she’s not loving on her hubby, chasing after the toddler or playing princess with her four-year-old, she enjoys cooking, reading and writing down her thoughts to share with others. Brie is also a huge lover of Jesus. She finds immense joy in the peace a relationship with her Savior provides, and she might just tell you about it sometime. She’d love for you to check out her blog at BrieGowen.com.

Alcoholic Reeking of Urine Stumbles in Hospital to See Wife—Then He Tells the Nurse One Thing She’ll NEVER Forget

"The smell of stale cigarette smoke mixed with urine and body odor permeated from his dirty, wrinkled clothing. He’d been known to pass out at the hospital room bedside, after vomiting all over the floor."

The Prodigal Daughter: “I Doubted Myself, I Doubted God. I Doubted It All…So I Ran & I Didn’t Look Back”

"You never figure out, until it’s too late...Yet I tried. For 10 years, in fact... I took a rocket ship billions of light years away from who God made me to be. No wonder my existence felt alien."

How We’re Killing Our Children’s Creativity

"As we mourn our empty nest we wonder where the time went, even though we were part of the evil slave master pointing to the clock... Where do the dreamers fit in?"

When I Forgot My Husband

"I always had been a light sleeper, so despite his gentle steps I still woke as he moved about. Within a few minutes, he came to my side and laid a goodbye kiss upon my lips. 'Have a good day, sweetie.' He whispered. 'Love you'...It wasn’t the kind of goodbye I liked."

Letting Rage Against the Mommy-Machine Go

"I had to let it go. I had to let go of everything that didn’t matter in the great, grand God-scheme of thinking."

Confessions of a “Just OK” Christian

"I plan to teach my children to abstain from sex until marriage, but I sure hope they never ask if I did. I don’t want to tell my daughters I slept with more men than I can even count..."

Asking God to Come Near to You Won’t Help Your Anxiety

"When I deal with unwanted anxiety, it’s not so much a matter of praying for God to come near and help me. He hears my prayer. It’s not that He’s ignoring me. When anxiety continues, or when it comes back again, and you battle it time after time, a common misconception would be, God isn’t hearing me."

Wife Picks Husband’s Phone to Google Something—Then She Sees the Last Website He Visited

"That’s the website that stared back at me... That’s what my husband had been searching when I wasn’t home."