Archive for category: Blended Families

/ April 30, 2013 11:59 pm

A House Divided

Healthy Conflict Resolution for Blended Families By Katrina Smith 5/1/2013 One of the challenges that my husband and I had as a newly blended family was facing the “elephants in the room.” You know, when one of our children’s feelings were hurt or they were mad at someone, they would walk in the room not speaking to anyone. Then there [...]

/ March 14, 2013 12:20 am

Spring Cleaning the Dating Scene For Single Parents

Learning To Filter Through All Of The Challenges While Dating By Katrina Smith April 9th, 2012 As my first wedding anniversary approaches, I can’t help but to think over my life about how I finally found the man that brings me so much joy and happiness after going through so much pain and heartbreak. Before I married, I was a single [...]

/ November 9, 2012 11:59 pm

Foreign Policies: Loving Beyond All Boundaries

Part Two By Kairis Joy Colter Burt Kairis_1@live.com October 29, 2012   The whole situation was plastered all over our local newspaper and local TV news.  Everyone knew.  It wasn’t something I could cover up and hide.  I was a Roman Catholic at the time, and unfortunately some people in my parish decided to treat me differently by turning away [...]

/ November 7, 2012 11:40 pm

Grafted In

In Her Shoes: Growing Up as a Chosen Daughter By: Kairis Joy Colter Burt 11/01/2012 I remember my sister and I arguing once, over whose baby picture I had pinned up on my wall.  It is hard to tell some of our photos apart. Its not unusual for siblings to favor. But in our case, we became sisters when my [...]

/ October 20, 2012 9:22 am

Beautifully Blended

The Future Is Sitting Right Next to You    By Brittney McCook October 20, 2012   You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. – Genesis 50:20 I feel so blessed that I get to serve and pour into so many amazing young women each week [...]

/ October 1, 2012 12:03 am

…Like Daughter

The Story of An Unlikely Pairing By Sonja Mitchell 10/01/2012 We do not come into this world with the knowledge of love, kindness, gentleness or compassion. We need to be taught these lessons in order to fully understand their meaning.  Sometimes people come into our lives without us knowing how much of an impact they will have on our lives. [...]

/ September 30, 2012 11:59 pm

Out of the Miry Clay

A Tribute to Karen Hanson* By Myckelle P. Williams 10/01/2012   “ He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.” ~Psalm 40:2-3 “I’d like [...]

/ July 9, 2012 11:59 pm

The Day He Gave Me Liberty

My Journey Back to Christ By Taylor Duckett July 1, 2012 My parents had me out of wedlock. My mother was in graduate school and my father was in the military. I was very much a surprise and initially not a welcomed one. My birth experience was not the easiest in the world. I was turned around inside my mother’s [...]

/ February 29, 2012 11:17 pm

Starting Over In Love: Words Of Wisdom From an Experienced Proverbs Wife

Are You Not Married Yet?  No worries……Hold Your Course         By:  Minister Fredricia Cunegin    On June 14, of 2011, I celebrated 25 years of marriage with my husband and best friend,  Irvin.  We often talk about the love synergy between us that is more enhanced today than when our journey began.  Would you believe that the [...]