Thought I’d share with you what’s been keeping me away for the most part all summer long – my new Bible study, Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment! – It’s now available on LifeWay’s website for pre-orders and comes out this fall. I am so excited to share this with other military wives

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My interview with Focus on the Family happens this Tuesday, July 6 and I’ll be on the live web cast of their new web show, Your Family Live, on Wednesday! Hope you can join us! FOCUS ON THE FAMILY HONORS OUR TROOPS, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE BY SERVING THEIR FAMILIES Colorado Springs, CO — The

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One of the exciting things about this new book (I think, anyway) is the Bible study that goes along with it. I started out wanting to put together something simple that a military wives group could do together as they read the book – a few discussion questions, a couple of scriptures. I had no

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A military marriage isn’t easy. Fluctuating schedules, fluctuating priorities; changing goals, changing locations; time together, time apart, time trying to establish what was before. It’s tough to find a balance some days when you’re married and in the military. And it can be easy sometimes to want to look over the proverbial fence to someone

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As we prepare to celebrate Christ’s birth tonight with Christmas Eve festivities and tomorrow on Christmas Day, I want to thank you, my readers, for the time you’ve spent with me this year. Today’s the last day of the Wives of Faith blog carnival and we’re talking about Christmas wishes. So here is mine for

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I don’t take my husband for granted at Christmas time because I know there’s always the chance he may not get to spend it with us next year. I don’t take my house for granted this year; with our unemployment situation in its 18th month, I don’t assume we will always have it. I don’t

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OK, so I was totally late on this carnival post today, but I was working on quite a bit of other stuff for Wives of Faith so I think I have a good excuse. I did want to answer this topic though, because it’s so much fun. Most spouses work very hard to come up

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It’s easy to get caught up in all of the commercial fuss of Christmas these days. When Christmas decorations and merchandising start showing up right next to the Halloween decorations in September, you know things have gone a little too far.  The focus becomes on Stuff, instead of Someone. And yet that Someone is what

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Only five more days to go with the Wives of Faith Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival! Today we’re talking about what we want for Christmas, and I’ll admit that this is a pretty easy one for me to respond to because what I wanted for Christmas, I JUST got! Yesterday, after being gone for

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For the Wives of Faith blog carnival post today, we’re talking about Christmas trees. I don’t think there’s ever been a time I can remember having a real Christmas tree. It’s always been artificial. My favorite tree has to be the one we now have and yes, it may be a silly answer and you

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