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The Truth About Marriage After 50: What No One Tells You

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The ‘Sandwich Generation’: Life Between Raising Children and Caring for Aging Parents

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Friend Says “Of All People, You Should Get Why Someone Would Abort a Cleft Baby”—Dad’s Reply Is Perfect

"My ‘friend’ said, ‘Come on, of all people, you should get why someone would want to abort a cleft baby.’ That shocked me. Why would he think that?"

Tag: Gratitude

Dear Christians, Stop Giving Thanks For Everything

To give thanks FOR all circumstances is to say that the situation itself (rather than what might arise from it) is good. We risk calling good what is evil.

“That’s Stupid. Everyone in My Class Has That”: Mom Teaches Entitled Daughter Lesson in Tough Love

"She stared at it and threw it in the trash and slammed the bedroom door."

Why You Must Feel Sorrow to Experience Joy

"Your capacity to feel the one affects your capacity to experience the other. The two are connected. A soul deadened to the pain of the world and to your own life is numb to the joy available to you as well."

Remember to Remember

"Remember to remember when the morning brings bad news; how grace fills time, every time. Remember to mark the day when you remembered all the rivers you’ve crossed, the crosses you’ve bore, the mountains you’ve overcome."

When God Didn’t Give You the Life You Dreamed Of. Not Even Close.

“Weep deeply over the life you hoped would be.”