Got an email from Laura Faber over the weekend… she was a reporter and evening co-anchor of Fox17 here in Nashville when Cliff was deployed to Iraq and she and cameraman Brian Hallett covered our story for the almost year-long deployment. The series that they did, Service and Sacrifice, won an Emmy last week in

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Hey everyone – this is a quick update to say hello and explain the absence lately… I am deep in the trenches of writing GOD Strong: Spiritual Truths Every Military Wife Should Know (Zondervan, 2010), and with that and my work with Wives of Faith, I have been a little crunched for time lately! I

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First Lady Michele Obama was championing the rights of military families during the campaign; it will be interesting to see what she accomplishes now that her husband is president, and whether her husband’s actions in office toward the military (bringing home troops too early, closing Gitmo, repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy) may actually

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Image via Wikipedia I’ve been “tweeting” (Twitter talk for all you non-Twitter folks ) with Lauren Vargas (@AAFES_STYS) who works for AAFES and she told me something I didn’t know – that the commanding officer in charge of AAFES, Major General Keith Thurgood, was an Army reservist before accepting his current assignment. Actually, I think

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This morning I started a 21-day devotional that Today’s Christian Woman is doing (www.giftedforleadership.com). There’s a free devotional guide you can download if you’d like to participate. Today’s devotion talked about “spirituality vs. Jesus” and how so often we can mistake being spiritual for following Christ. But being spiritual can in many ways be like

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I have to admit. Time is something I am wrestling with these days. Only in our second day of 2009 and I am already wondering how I can get everything done. I am DETERMINED to lose the weight I want to lose. So time is required each day to exercise and to fix healthy meals.

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Happy New Year everyone! Today is one of my favorite days. It’s the beginning of a new year, new possibilities, new hopes and new dreams. It’s a time to reflect on the year before, and to ponder what’s ahead. I know I have been very quiet these last couple of months. I’ve been reflecting on

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