Women on Edge

Popular author Cindi McMenamin offers wonderful new encouragement to women who stand at the crossroads of life longing for change, for direction, for ways to make a difference.

Every woman, at one time or another, has felt as if she’s “on the edge.” She has felt unappreciated, unsupported, and weary. She has thought, Why am I putting up with this? Don’t I deserve better? How can I escape? Read more

Desperate for His Touch

by Cindi McMenamin – Strengthforthesoul.com

My heart was convicted as I read in Scripture of a woman who was so desperate for God’s healing in her life, she was willing to do anything to just touch Him (Mark 5:24-34).

I had to ask myself, how desperate am I for God’s touch on my life? And do I really long to be whole and complete in every way?
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21 Month-old Baby

by Nita Whitaker LaFontaine

There are days that I feel like a toddler— a runabout as they are called in Europe. I am running about and figuring out so many different things in my new world. Even after a little more than 21 months ago when my husband Don LaFontaine passed away, I find myself asking, “How can this be? He was just here.” As I pass a photograph with his smiling eyes looking back at me, it still at time seems unbelievable and new. At other times, it feels like it’s been 10 years since I’ve seen his face. Read more

Set Free From the Soaps

Inspirational Ink: Insight for a Woman’s Life

by Tammi Ector Fisse

Hello. My name is Tammi, and I’m a soap opera addict. If a Soap Opera Anonymous had existed back in the early nineties, this is how I would have introduced myself at the meetings I needed to attend. Read more

ACERCA DE LA SANTIDAD

Autora Brendaliz Avilés

“Seguid la paz con todos, y la santidad, sin la cual nadie verá al Señor. (Efesios 12:14)

Muchas veces pensamos que la santidad envuelve lo que se ve por fuera. Lo que una persona usa o deja de usar. Y aunque la santidad es algo que se refleja por fuera, mucho tiene que ver con lo que hay dentro de nosotros. Hoy medito sobre estas cosas y deseo hacerles notar que. Read more

Healthy Weight Loss = Break Fast (breakfast)!

by Laurette Willis

Are you a breakfast eater? It’s important to eat a nutritious breakfast every morning if you want to lose weight, maintain a healthy weight and maintain a good energy level throughout the day.

A study was conducted by Vanderbilt University in 1992 with overweight people who routinely skipped breakfast. When they began eating breakfast they became big losers—losing an average of 17 pounds in 12 weeks. They were less hungry at other meals, and eating breakfast fired up their metabolism to burn more fat the rest of the day.1 Read more

Raspberry Lemonade

Ingredients

2 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
6 cups water
1 teaspoon of fresh lime juice
2 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
4 cups crushed ice
1 ½ cup fresh raspberries, garnish
36 Mint leaves, for garnish (optional)

Directions

In a large punch bowl, combine raspberry lemonade concentrate, water and lime juice. Stir in lemon-lime soda and crushed ice. Garnish each glass with a fresh raspberry and a mint leaf.

Set Yourself Free

by Mia Green

When it comes to the world of fashion and beauty there are rules, rules, and more rules! I say throw away most of the rules and create your own set that fit your personality and style. After all, we are women that have been chosen to live our lives based on a different set of moral and spiritual rules anyway (John 15:18-19) so why not apply it to our individual sense of beauty and style. Read more

Ye Shall be Free Indeed

by Karin S. Syren

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, Isaiah 61:1, 2 NIV Read more

Marriage as Viewed by an 18 Year-old

by Alyssa Carmona

Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

Marriage is a relationship between two people that for a girl 18 years old means a great deal. Marriage is defined as the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law.

It is a bond created and destined by God with the intent of bringing Him glory; it’s so deep, that I believe it can conquer the most intense of things that life throws at you. If of course, it is done right and you are truly committed!

The concept and purpose of marriage is misunderstood more and more and has become less and less meaningful in the day and age in which we live in. Our generation needs to be re-educated on the importance of the true meaning of love and marriage and we certainly need a lot more role models.

It is important for a young girl and woman alike to understand the true and deep meaning of marriage it. It is a special relationship that requires dedication in a world of divorce.

As women, we need to understand our roles. I feel that a wife is a strong person who should build up her husband and family with love and nurturing. I feel that marriages have to go back to the basics and be viewed as a true commitment, filled with patience, and honesty. Of course, there has to be attraction, but the fundamentals should be based on the long term.

A wife should be found by her husband and has to be ready to be pliable allowing God to move in that relationship so that she reflects what Proverbs 31:9-11 nicely says, “A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.”

While I am young and have lots to learn, I believe in marriage as God intended it to be and I hope that I may model and bring Him glory in His intention.

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