Waiting. We can do it a lot in our lifetimes, can’t we? We wait in the airport, we wait for a cab. We wait in the doctor’s office, we wait for the test results. We wait for the policeman behind us to finish writing our speeding tickets, we wait for our apartment application to be

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From my reading this morning: “This is the way God works. Over and over again, He pulls our souls back from certain destruction so we’ll see the light – and live in the light!”- Job 33:29-30 (The Message) I am thankful this morning that God, in His incredible wisdom, uses hard experiences to bring us

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OK, I will wrap up this series I started with a short word about guilt and the superwoman. One of the things that I think sometimes propels struggling superwomen to be superwomen in the first place is the guilt we feel when we think we need to be the perfect… whatever. Perfect mom, perfect wife,

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Keeping house and caring for the kids fills a woman’s day — and more. But what if she had to earn a living too? Your wife will never have to face this double duty if you protect yourself.– 1963 ad for TravelersInsurance She had breakfast with the national sales manager, met with the client from

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I don’t think superwomen exist. I think they’re created. There are two kinds of superwomen – the Struggling Superwoman and the “Real” Superwoman. The first is the kind we try to make ourselves to be, the second is the kind we see other women as. The first type, of course, never seems to be as

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One of the little things we like to do as a family is rent movies from Netflix. We started doing this about a year ago and I like it a whole lot better than Blockbuster because I can order exactly what we want to see, they’re always in stock, and I don’t have to worry

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