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Life After Homeschooling: He is Enough
I heard a voice in our home recently that I didn’t recognize. Then I realized that it was our 14 year old. His voice just changed from a...
durendalee
Jan 1, 20194 min read
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Everyday Grief
I held my husband’s hand as we walked to our church across the street. There was a break in the thunderstorm that had been threatening...
durendalee
May 15, 20184 min read
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The Comparison Trap
THE COMPARISON TRAP Galatians 6:4,5 “Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done,...
durendalee
Feb 15, 20182 min read
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When The Waves Won’t Seem to Stop
I was talking to a friend awhile back about how busy our lives seemed to be. I don’t know how it ramps up to warp speed so easily, but I...
durendalee
Sep 21, 20172 min read
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Where Forgiveness Happens Healing Begins
Marriage is probably the relationship that most requires a spirit of forgiveness. The Enemy wants to destroy godly marriages and we must...
durendalee
Sep 14, 20171 min read
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Mommy Martyrdom
Motherhood will bring you to your knees and often face down before the Lord. Â In my 26 years of parenting, I have found myself at the end...
durendalee
Jul 28, 20171 min read
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Simple Ways to Sweeten Your Marriage
After 28 years of marriage, you learn a few thing…things to do and things NOT to do. I am not one for long lists (although they can be...
durendalee
Jul 25, 20174 min read
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When God Calls You to Free Fall
My husband and 2 of our boys just left a few days ago on a cross country road trip. Â 2,471.8 miles. Â That alone is enough to make a woman...
durendalee
Mar 26, 20174 min read
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Loving Your Man for a Lifetime
Twenty eight years ago, my husband asked me to marry him.  We’d known each other 3 mos, but there was no doubt in either of our minds...
durendalee
Mar 19, 20175 min read
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When Following God Looks Messy
We sold our dream home almost two years ago now (When God Turns Your World Upside Down). Â It was not something I ever saw coming, but in...
durendalee
Feb 19, 20178 min read
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Determining God’s Heart for our Families
Having kids and family is often on our hearts and minds as moms, but what might it look like from our husband’s viewpoint?  On these last...
durendalee
Mar 6, 20151 min read
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Everyday Marriage
Every day my husband goes down to a storage room filled with, well…stuff we are storing. That and weight equipment. He sits at a table...
durendalee
Feb 13, 20154 min read
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When Divorce is Not an Option
My husband has been self employed most of our 25 years of marriage, but for the last 4 years he had been working a few days a week for...
durendalee
Jan 4, 20154 min read
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Marriage Sacrificed
It’s happening. Way. Too. Much. Marriages are crumbling all around us. And Christian marriages seem no different. What in the world is...
durendalee
Aug 13, 20142 min read
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