Author: Jo Ann Fore

Column Post by Kelly Heuer My son broke a promise to me. He has no remorse for having done so and rubs it in my face every day. In fact, he’s doing so right now. It hurts my heart that he made the decision to go back on his word and just thinking about it […]

Guest Post by Dana Arcuri It was spring 1998 and I was in the second trimester of my third pregnancy. All went according to plan, until the sixth month when my baby’s abnormal movements alarmed me.  During a prenatal exam, I discussed my concern with my midwife. She immediately scheduled an ultrasound test and referred me to […]

Column Post by Lisa Easterling My mother was my compass. She weathered a hard childhood followed by a hard life and yet she never stopped pushing on. Because of her, I have never known the meaning of quit. Every Mother’s Day my focus was on telling—and more importantly, showing—my mother how much she meant to […]

Guest Post by Susan Tolles It was last year when I heard the term “unmothered daughters” for the first time. It made me shiver and brought a flood of memories about my own mother and the volatile relationship we’d had. Adopted as an infant, I never connected with my adoptive mother. I had a great childhood […]

Column Post by Laura Hyers I’m not a mother—yet. Some days I feel like a mother, chasing around children who aren’t mine for nine hours a day, changing diapers and potty training and disciplining and celebrating and laughing and hugging and wiping noses and kissing booboos. But at the end of the day I give […]

When your heart hurts, nothing helps more than loving encouragement from someone who “gets it.” Cheryl Karpen, a woman with a dream to touch a million hearts with affirmations and encouragement, understands.  In this soul-nurturing audio interview, Cheryl tenderly shares about the times in her life when people surrounded her with hope, love, and encouragement, […]

Column Post by Lakin Easterling “He dressed in Righteousness, put it on like a suit of armor…and threw a cloak of Passion across his shoulders… ‘As for me,’ God says, ‘this is my covenant with them: My Spirit that I’ve placed upon you and the words that I’ve given you to speak, they’re not going […]

Column Post by Kelly Heuer I once heard, in all earnestness, a sermon on how we are to walk, talk, look, and smell like Christians. What? Yep. Apparently there is a Christian dress code, a Christian dialect, a Christian gait, a Christian style, and yes, a Christian perfume/cologne. I have no doubt that all are […]

Column Post by Glenda Harbinson I’d sat on that sill many times before. The large window was a favorite place of mine, never mind that it was in a washroom. it was a long, tall window overlooking the neighborhood and I could sit there thinking, praying, and meditating knowing the locked door assured nobody could walk […]