When Christmas Hurts: Celebrating Through Loss and Change

Christmas doesn’t have to be the ‘happiest time of year’ to be deeply meaningful—here’s why celebrating through grief, loss, and change might actually bring us closer to the true heart of the season.

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Stop Looking Down: Why Your Posture Problem Is Actually a Soul Problem

A chiropractor’s diagnosis became an unexpected wake-up call about how I’ve been living my spiritual life—looking inward instead of upward and outward toward God and others.

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A Hope Stronger than the Shifting Sand

Even if what I am experiencing is horrible, and even if it looks like I won’t survive it, I have a hope in Jesus that is bigger than today. It’s stronger than the shifting sand beneath my feet.

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A Divine Whisper: Trusting God’s Timing and Plan

Guest blogger Maureen Miller shares her writer's journey from receiving divine encouragement to pursue novel-writing to facing years of personal hardship—including health crises, loss, and depression—while learning to trust God's timing rather than her own expectations for success.