Author: Jo Ann Fore

Column Post by Rita Schulte  Lindsey felt stuck. She was bright, talented and bored. She was stalled in her career and overwhelmed in her personal life, and it was creating major stress. The problem was she didn’t know which area of her life to tackle first, or how to come up with steps to move […]

Column Post by Lisa Easterling Riding home in the car last night, I watched wonder dance across the features of my two-year-old granddaughter, Rosabelle. She stared out the window watching the trees go by, her eyes darting back and forth in search of the main source of her delight. I didn’t need to look to […]

Column Post by Glenda Harbinson I recently learned something that has made a marked change in my life. I can’t help but believe there are many besides me who are being given incorrect impressions in this area. It’s about joy. Not happiness. We seem to understand that happiness is based on circumstances, but we misunderstand […]

Column Post by Laura Hyers “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.” – Exodus 20:8-10a I married a workaholic. I knew how he was before I married him, and I know him […]

Column Post by Lakin Easterling You know that feeling you get when something that hurt you, something that left a scratch or a burn or a gash, starts healing? That constant itchy, uncomfortable, reminder that something didn’t go the way you planned? By a show of hands, who likes that feeling? I sure don’t. If […]

Guest post by Karen Trigg   “Would you be willing to share more of your story?” At a ministry team-planning session with young moms, Meredith asked to hear in more detail the story she had only briefly heard. A story of how my marriage really began as I came to the end of myself. “Will […]

Column Post by Beth Cranford There we sat, in the emergency room, awaiting a CT scan for our preschooler. He had taken a hard fall on the garage floor about two hours earlier. The doctors were pretty sure he had a mild concussion. A dangerous thing can happen to your mind when there’s time to […]

The problem with promising God you’ll follow Him wherever He leads is that you just might have to go. I suspect it would be easier if you were certain of His calling—like stepping out the door and seeing the lilac bush on fire and hearing a voice commanding you. But when it’s your husband who […]

Column Post by Aj Luck We have a Golden Retriever named Carson. Occasionally Carson will glimpse something out of the corner of his eye and get all excited. It’s moving and must be caught, and the chase for his tail is on! Round and round he twirls in a feverish effort to catch it. Fearing […]

Column Post by Lisa Easterling “Like the nectar of the bee, which turns to honey the dust of flowers, or like that liquor which converts lead into gold, the poet has a breath that fills out words, gives them light and color. He knows wherein consists their charm, and by what art enchanted structures may […]