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Exercise: Can Circadian Rhythms Determine Your Best Time?
If you're not consistent with exercise and you find that it's wearing you down instead of building you up, you may be interested in the work scientists are doing in the area of "circadian rhythms," the internal clocks God put in place within our physical bodies.

by Laurette Willis | Continue
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Wiping Away Baby Tears:
A Stillborn Daughter in Heaven

What mother enters childbearing without passing thoughts of What if…? What if the baby dies? What if the baby is not healthy? How will I bear it? Will God help me?

by Carol Brinneman | Continue
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A Time-Out?
The most popular secular child training tool is the time-out. They didn’t have them when I was a kid. Your kid “disrespects” you and you put them in a time-out, one minute per year old they are. Is this effective? Is it preparing them for a healthy adult life?

by PhenomoMom | Continue
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Clematis, Queen of Climbers
These flowering vines are truly the queens of climbers. Flowers are big and bold and have a range of color from white to crimson and heavenly blue. All the varieties I describe here flourish in full sun, with one exception that prefers shade.

by Terra Hangen | Continue

The Future

"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come"
—Proverbs 31:25

Leah's Recipe Box

Poetry by Jan Lutz

Mary or Martha
Martha fixed a banquet—
Mary sat at Jesus’
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Devotion—Luke 10:27

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All of Me is All You Need
I am going to college in four days. What gets me the most about what is to come is where I have been.
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by Jessica Brown

Meet a Columnist 

Sharon L. Patterson
Sharon L. Patterson

In Light of His Wisdom
Sharon L. Patterson is a retired educator, career military wife, mother of three sons, grandmother to five precious angels, author, CLASS graduate, Certified Personality Trainer, and women's ministry leader. She has written numerous shorts stories and authored two books: A Soldier's Strength from the Psalms and Healing for the Holes in Our Souls.

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I stoop down to pick up the cause of the glow that secured my attention ... a penny. "It is a bit battered," I think to myself.
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