I’m so tired I go to sleep! The most obvious help to overcome sleepiness while praying is to not wait until the end of a long, hard day… almost an afterthought somewhere between brushing teeth and shutting off the light. Pick a time of day (even if it’s only five minutes to start with) when [...]

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6 tablespoons ground coffee
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup caramel dessert syrup
Mix the cinnamon with the ground coffee and brew a pot of coffee as usual. Add the syrup to the hot coffee and stir until dissolved. Chill thoroughly, and serve over ice, with milk or sugar to taste.
Optional: a scoop of low-fat, low-sugar vanilla ice cream [...]

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AFRAID OF LIVING AND SCARED OF DYING
There was a season in my life when I experienced an overwhelming fear of death. What was odd was that at that same time I was also afraid of living.
It wasn’t the process of dying that loomed larger than life, it was death itself.
Where would I spend eternity? [...]

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3/4 cup nondairy powdered creamer
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup instant coffee
1/4 cup cocoa
6 peppermint candies, crushed
Store in a jar with a lid. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons mix to 6 oz. boiling water. Top with whipped cream, if desired.

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“I always forget to pray.”
Huh? How does someone forget to pray?
More than likely, it’s that they don’t want to pray (due to time and schedule pressures, feelings of inadequacy to pray in comparison to the way others pray, etc.) or they have little regard for the power of prayer, or never experienced its potential. In [...]

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“It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us. It takes God’s Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His, that we are utterly unnoticeable.” -Oswald Chambers

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Oh, to become like You, Lord, I’ve asked this often… I’ve yearned and strained and longed to try and copy You. But this is not Your way to fashion Your child into Your likeness.
Only when You allow a trial to come and stand before me, to question and defy me, only then can I make [...]

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PRINCIPLES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MIRACLES!
“What?”, you say, “How can anything be more important than a miracle from the hand of God?” Stay with me here for a minute. Many of us are spiritually depleted, physically sick, in financial disaster, or facing despair of one kind or another. We cry out to God to [...]

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In the very near future, we will bring back our section on “Growing Older With Grace & Beauty” and we want you to meet our two special contributors, Elsie and Jere. Here you will find humor, practical advice, and encouragement if you are in the 50 and over age bracket. If you’re younger, you will [...]

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Sarah is the kind of person you love to hate. She is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask her how she was doing, she would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” She was a natural motivator. If an employee was having [...]

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