1.     You are loved more than you can fathom.
2.     You are chosen and wanted.
3.     Thank you for being a friend to me.
4.     I miss you!
5.     You are important and valued.
6.     You are not alone even when you feel lonely.
7.     I admire how strong you are!
8.     I’m grateful that you are my sister.
9.     I love how you love on the forgotten and care for the afflicted.
10.  Your ability to make the ordinary beautiful is a true gift!
11.  I admire how you’ve taken care of yourself!
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There are times when people encounter fearful thoughts that can be difficult to manage. For some women, the more they try to get rid of the thoughts, the more difficult they become to manage. As a result, here is a brief list of techniques that a woman can use to help manage her fearful and obsessive thoughts.

The first thing a person must do is not to dwell or focus on the fear provoking thought when it comes. The more a person tries to reason out the thought or focus on the fear behind the

1. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.” - Anne Lamott

2. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” - Rick Warren

3. “True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.” - Francis Cha

While we are busy looking in the mirror at ourselves, Christ creates a new image of us. He works on that picture, and when it is finished, we will be conformed into His image. Christ has already seen the finished work in us. In contrast, we tend to look only at the hurts, pain, anger, wrinkles, hair, and every blemish, but God’s work isn’t done. The portrait is not finished yet as God’s photo lab must put on the finishing touches. Christ works on us every day to get us cleaned, polished, and st

My boyfriend finally turned back to look at me, and I was able to breathe again. What did he see in these other girls anyway? What did they have that I didn’t?

Oh, right. They were thinner. Prettier. Better outfits. Better hair. Basically, they had everything I thought I didn’t.

And that’s why I stayed with him—with this man who flirted with the waitresses on our date nights, who checked out every pretty girl we passed, who seemed to forget about me when we were in a crowd and only be interes

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“My husband and I were actually talking about this yesterday. Sometimes we get asked the question, ‘How do you juggle your faith and what you do?’ But for me, I don’t

1. Record requests and answers. One of the best ways to grow confidence in the Lord is to record your prayer requests—and then record His answers. I’ve used several journals for this purpose. I write the request in black and, when God answers, I write the answer in red and date it. I can flip back through these notebooks to see God’s faithfulness and be encouraged for the future!

2. Make a prayer board. Our prayer board is simply a large corkboard with “prayer sections”: areas over which my husban