Tag: faith
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Life is Fragile
Real Love is Not~ The holiday season brings much that remains buried during the rest of the year to the surface. This is why we often observe or experience abnormal impatience, emotional instability, or outbursts, heightened anxiety, unrealistic personal expectations, and more! I’m sure that someone much smarter than I could expound on why this…
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Can I Trust My Father?
Earthly Fathers / Our Heavenly Father This morning, as I was going about my ‘duties’ that included starting the laundry, taking out the trash, washing the dishes, and organizing the pantry a bit, my heart and mind were running wild – literally in so many directions, and I knew that I was bordering on an…
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Strengthen the Spirit
Weaken the Flesh “Whatever strengthens my spirit weakens my flesh!” In our Christian walk, we cling to the promises of God found throughout His Word. One of those promises is that God will bless our obedience. He says that those who walk in obedience to Him will see the goodness of God. So how…
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God Promises
But I Don’t See Him Doing It! For every believer seeking to walk in obedience to the Lord, what we are discussing is a lifestyle of obedience. A lifestyle of forgiveness. How dedicated are we to forgiving the ones who hurt us, who have abused us or our families for years? How dedicated are we…
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“I’m Not Born Again!”
Faithfulness Matters I’m just going to begin this post with the honest truth, which is that I struggled with what to title it! They say that people choose whether to read your articles or not based on the ‘catchiness’ of the titles. I’m pretty sure this one will not grab the attention of many, but…
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When We Stop Talking…
Disaster! The state of the world we live in… and can you and I make a difference? There was a quote floating around last week that I think was attributed to Charlie Kirk and it was something to the effect of, “When we stop talking, that is when violence begins!” I was also reading this…
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Too Much?
Am I Being Too Transparent Here? If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, then you are fully aware that I believe in transparency – honesty to the degree that we can actually understand one another and learn together. Well, today you may decide that I’m being a little too honest, but…
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Chaotic Emotions
Not Enough Words It was just a week ago that I was battling real feelings of loneliness, discouragement, and was close to depression. I even reached out to a couple of my closest friends and just asked them to pray for me – that I wasn’t ok. Let me tell you that this is not…
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Maybe She Was Born With It
Or Maybe It’s Mayballine Does anyone remember this commercial jingle? It has been running through my head this morning as I’ve considered some things that my study of Mary and Martha from Scripture this week brought to mind. If you’ve spent any time looking at these women and how they interacted with Jesus and those…
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Erika Kirk
The Morning After All of America has an opinion, an emotional reaction, a deep response to what we witnessed yesterday with the assassination of Charlie Kirk: known for his faith, his political stance, his ability to reason and debate – the incredible influence he had across several generations of Americans. We are deeply moved in…
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Clinging To Him
End of my rope “While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal!” This verse of Scripture became very real to me when I was in my early twenties…
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My Body, My Choice
Not Really – I Was Just Kidding Unless you have been living completely separated from all news and cultural information, then you are aware of a current discussion concerning vaccines, the rights of parents, and mandated shots. Among the talking points are some pretty ‘in your face’ comments toward prolife advocates. The one that I’ve…
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Forgiveness?
Eh, I’ve got that covered! Through the ministries of The Forgotten Woman, I’ve been meeting with women and studying, learning, and teaching on the subject of forgiveness for three years. “You mean you have been meeting with the same women for three years and studying forgiveness?” Yes. That’s exactly what I mean! And as this…
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No, It is not Easy
But if God will use it… I was in my early twenties when I first began singing the song, The Refiner’s Fire by Steve Green. At that point, I had suffered loss in many areas of my life, and I truly wanted all of it to be used to refine who I was/am and as…
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Church Music
Quality, Perfection, Performance or Worship? Let’s talk about quality, perfectionism, legalism, exhaustion and purpose in reference to ministry and more specifically worship. While I am not the perfectionist in my family (between myself and my siblings) I do love quality. If I’m honest, I have to admit that there were many years of being involved…
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Feeling the Hurt
But not sad This past week, I’ve had the opportunity to share and speak with dozens of people on the subject of pain, difficult life situations, wounds, discouragement, depression, grief… and the reality of navigating and walking with these aspects of life without losing the joy that Christ gives. In this world, there is no…
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The Hornet’s Nest
Seen and Unseen Enemies Have you heard about the birds and the bees? I mean the hornets and the bees and how active and mad they are this year? I kept hearing people talk about this and wondered what I was missing. And then, I discovered exactly what they were discussing! About two weeks ago,…
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Pride Month
Genuine Love Can Disagree As someone who is passionate about truth and hates controversy… As someone who believes what God says is truth, regardless of how I feel… As someone who has faced intense anger this week because I questioned why a friend believes what she believes… My heart and mind have been working in…
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Ministry Update
Dear Friends! Today’s blog entry is a little different, but necessary. I want to begin by thanking each of you who have been faithful readers of The Forgotten Woman Blog. I’m constantly working to improve the format and site, and writing as much as I can. You know my goal is to encourage others while…
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Technology BAD
The Evils of that Phone in Your Hand Yep. We’re gonna tackle this subject – one that seems to be gaining in popularity among various demographics of society. Y’all know that I spend a lot of time with people who are Christians, and many of us are understandably concerned about the influences that we bring…
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In The Midst
In My Head To be honest; I’m not sure if I’ll ever publish this article and I’ll warn you now that it will be random, raw, and maybe even contain some things that readers don’t understand. If I do publish it; it will be for the sole purpose of authentically exploring and sharing. Who we…
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Is This Going to Matter…
In Eternity To begin today, let me give you just a little bit of transparent insight into the mind and life of a blogger like me… I’ve been trying to write this article now for two weeks and the problem hasn’t been about forming words or sentences or ideas: it’s been about sitting down and…
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You’ve Been Sued
When God is The Judge and Goes Before You I’m not even sure where to begin with today’s article but I’m going to attempt to share a very personal part of my life over the past year and a half without exposing anyone and their part in this experience. Challenging, yes; but hopefully not impossible!…
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My Broken Mind
Yes, There is Hope One of the reasons emotional and verbal abuse so dangerous is because the damage is not visible to the eye, may be ignored and even denied until the damage is so deep that it has affected every area of life and because it literally rewires the brain. The answer for the…
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It’s TAR!
Don’t Worry about it; It’s TOO Badly Soiled “What’s that all over your sweatshirt, son?” “Oh, that’s tar.” “Well, give it to me and let me see if I can get it off!” “Mom, it’s ruined. I didn’t realize what we were doing at work today or I wouldn’t have worn it, but it’s too…
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Mom is up!
Whoops! Am I Making Too Much Noise? On this Saturday morning as I flit about through the house getting things done I’ve had to laugh a few times realizing that I’m really a bit too loud! One of my daughters has been working from home for a couple of weeks due to sickness among coworkers…
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I Just Don’t Have Time
Another Personal Story I’m guessing that most of us would consider ourselves “busy” by anyone’s measurement. Our busy seems to change from season to season but let’s face it: we live in a world that is pushing and pulling from all directions and well; we often get stuck in the whirlwind of ‘doing’. Of course,…
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That Unknown Work
We’ve Underestimated the Value! Oh, friends; we know the Scripture verses – “Pray without ceasing,” “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” “If ye have faith and doubt not, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall receive.” “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him.” There are so many more…
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My Stinkin Mind
RENEW THAT THING Well, we’ve come through the end of the year holiday season and my heart is so full of all that God is teaching me. This morning I had to go to court again – yes, I’m being sued by a stranger and while it isn’t something I talk about; it is certainly…
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The Forgotten Woman Vision 2025
What we are doing and asking God for in 2025 It’s incredible to think that 2024 is coming to a close, and we are getting ready to embark on a new year. This is always a great time to evaluate, reevaluate, and communicate with those who pray for us and support us in life and…
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