by LoriAHatcher | Aug 12, 2024 | Christian Living, Family
If your marriage survives its first few years, when do you think the next greatest threat will come? Year seven? Ten? Fifteen? Dr. Gary Chapman, author of The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted, tells us the second highest rate of divorce occurs not in the challenging...
by LoriAHatcher | Jul 29, 2024 | Christian Living, Family, Uncategorized
Betrayed, persecuted, grieving, uncertain, confused, abused, afraid, and struggling. Can you identify with any of these words? Most of us can, especially these days. Life is a struggle, and most days we feel the angst of living in a difficult world, with...
by LoriAHatcher | Jul 22, 2024 | Christian Living, Family
Some days I bounce out of bed. Other days I drag. Some days my prayers soar to the heavens. Other days I struggle to ask in faith. Some days I speak encouraging words that build others up and inspire their faith. Other days I speak fearful, worrisome words...
by LoriAHatcher | Jun 24, 2024 | Christian Living, Family
The Swanson family collected stray cats and stray people. I was one of them. I was sixteen years old, the new kid in school, and lonely. But the Swansons were kind, and when their son brought me home, they adopted me into the family. For three years, I ate meals...
by LoriAHatcher | Jun 10, 2024 | Blog, Family
When I was growing up, my dad’s nickname was “Bob.” Sometimes, when his family called him by his middle name, “Wilbur,” my sisters and I would giggle, envisioning the pink piglet in Charlotte’s Web. In the last few years, however, Dad has acquired a new...
by LoriAHatcher | May 20, 2024 | Christian Living, Family, Prayer
From the time my daughter was a newborn, she was an excellent communicator. She could pack more meaning and emotion into one syllable than any child I knew. Other babies in the church nursery would work up to the full expression of their need. When their...
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