Dear Barbara: I’m struggling right now. I really feel God asking me to do something that sounds too hard. Honestly, I don’t want to obey. Why would He do that? How can I negotiate? Dear friend, It’s scary, isn’t it? I’ve wondered the same. I remember when, after an exhausting week wrangling five relentless […]
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Note from Barbara: Today’s post comes from my long-distance friend Sara Hagerty. As I read her words below, I felt myself nodding in understanding and identification because her struggle with fatigue and limitations is ageless. My daughters, like Sara, experience exhaustion most days from the relentless demands of their families. Then my generation knows lessening […]
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This is the third in a series of posts taken from my book, Letters to My Daughters. The book is based on questions about marriage I gathered from my four daughters, my two “grafted in” daughters who married my sons, and many of their friends, and it’s dedicated to all of them by name. It […]
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by Susan Alexander Yates Note from Barbara: I remember when I was newly graduated from college and living in a new state, South Carolina. Every day was an adventure of discovery, including meeting new people. At a women’s tea, in a room full of total strangers, I met a young woman who stood out. I […]
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Do you know of Elijah, prophet of God, who challenged 950 idol worshipers to a contest to see whose God was best? With thousands of spectators watching, the competition of gods felt like a championship football game or soccer match. Whose god was the real God? They all wanted to know. Each side […]
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How were our lives transformed by the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ over two thousand years ago? One seismic change can be summed up in four words: Constant access to God. When Jesus breathed His last on the Cross, many miraculous phenomena occurred at that moment; some simultaneously, including an earthquake and graves opening […]
Read MoreWe hope you enjoy this excerpt from Barbara’s new book, Remember: A Four-Week Devotional for Eastertide. Says Barbara, “I wrote Remember because I wanted us to savor what Christ did on the Cross a bit more—to walk the roads He walked and learn from the moments He shared with His followers who were just like you […]
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We hope you enjoy this excerpt from Barbara’s new book, Remember: A Four-Week Devotional for Eastertide. Says Barbara, “I wrote Remember because I wanted us to savor what Christ did on the Cross a bit more—to walk the roads He walked and learn from the moments He shared with His followers who were just like […]
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We hope you enjoy this excerpt from Barbara’s new book, Remember: A Four-Week Devotional for Eastertide. Says Barbara, “I wrote Remember because I wanted us to savor what Christ did on the Cross a bit more—to walk the roads He walked and learn from the moments He shared with His followers who were just like […]
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We hope you enjoy this excerpt from Barbara’s new book, Remember: A Four-Week Devotional for Eastertide. Says Barbara, “I wrote Remember because I wanted us to savor what Christ did on the Cross a bit more—to walk the roads He walked and learn from the moments He shared with His followers who were just like you and me.” […]
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