To Vent or Not to Vent

By Beth | June 10, 2013

   A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. Proverbs 29:11.   Women want to be heard. If the person who needs to hear our complaints won’t listen, we will tell someone else. I often wonder about the biblical basis of “venting.” If I were to vent…

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Stress Relief

By Beth | June 6, 2013

   Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works. Psalm 119:27 “Stressed? Empty your mind. Don’t think about anything.” I’ve had a couple of stressful weeks and I was recently reminded of these instructions from an article I once read about relieving stress. From a Biblical perspective…

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Choosing from the Menu

By Beth | June 3, 2013

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness. 2 Peter 1:5-8   Restaurant chains are making it easier and easier to stay on a “controlled eating plan” (I’m sick of being on diets!).  Before…

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Land of Plenty – Plenty of Pride

By Beth | May 30, 2013

And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.  “Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are…

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Friends

By Beth | May 24, 2013

                                    Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.  Proverbs 13:20  “I thanked God every day for my food, I never thought to thank Him that I could eat it.” This is…

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A Wife Who Prays

By Beth | May 20, 2013

The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:16b I thought she was crazy, or maybe just eccentric. As this older woman put her arms around me she pulled me into a hug as she whispered into my ear, “The Lord is gonna use you. He has great plans…

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