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Discover the Beauty Within You

Beauty Points The beauty within you is released in stages. It requires transformation, or “complete metamorphosis” just like a butterfly!

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How to Persevere Past the Potholes – Second Part

Let’s talk turkey.  Life is difficult. However, our God is bigger than “difficult.” You can fly like an eagle even if you are a single mother. So how do you handle life’s potholes, pests, and perils?

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Wishes and Dreams

I was thirty years old when I gave birth to my youngest child. Jay was quickly diagnosed with Down syndrome and congenital heart disease. My little bundle of joy was a very sick baby. His immune system just didn’t kick in.

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The Potholes

Let’s talk turkey.  Life is difficult. However, our God is bigger than “difficult.”

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Do You Need A Good Laugh?

I recall one day when I was a single mom, someone came up to me and commented, “Pam you used to be funny.” And my reply was, “Well, life used to be funnier.”  Sound familiar?

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Picking Up the Pieces

Storms happen. In Oklahoma, we are very familiar with tornadoes that rip houses from their foundations. They leave a trail of debris and piles of rubble. They forever alter the landscape.

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Go Back

On my social media feeds my sweet friends have been posting the most adorable pictures of their children’s first day of school.

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Lighten Up

I discovered something last week.  I’m a creature of habit and stuck in a rut of doing life the same way every day

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Growth Chart

I have been transferring old VHS tapes to our computer recently. It’s been fun looking back and remembering high school, college, and when the kids were little.

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Mission: Survive N Thrive

I attended Survive ‘N’ Thrive two summers after my divorce was final. At that point, I was done crying, had found my way back to Christ and I was looking

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Ten Commandments in Mothering Well

I love the image of Moses in the Bible holding the Ten Commandments after God emblazoned them on stone tablets at Mount Sinai. God put them in his hand to pass along to the Israelites.

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See The Battle

Being a single mom is hard. Sometimes it feels like it’s “me against the world.” And it especially feels like that when that “irregular” person in your life

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