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Personal Growth Requires Acceptance

Sunrise with "Wishful" thinking quote by Frederick Buechner

Life Keeps Changing

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7 Rules of Life

Rules for Life You’ve probably heard these seven rules before. Last Sunday at the SMORE Sunday Support Group, Mary Simon shared them and we all shared our thoughts about each one. Tell us what you think. Which one speaks the most to you?

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Joy of Roots

Family Tree From Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much by Anne Wilson Schaef Who would have thought to design a tree such that its limbs, when they become too heavy, send dow another trunk, so that a single tree repeating this process many times over can eventually cover an are the six of an entire block? […]

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Connections with Others Are Important, Sunday Thought from SMORE

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.  – Isaac Newton

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Your Words DO Matter

Created by Laurie Harris

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New Hopes and Dreams for the Single Mom

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll Gail Cawley Showalter It is 2014. Can you believe it? Time to review the previous year and make goals for the upcoming one. God willing you will be doing the same in another twelve months. Ask yourself what would […]

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Sunday Thought for Single Moms from SMORE

Face Your Fear “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Following the Voice of God

Which Voice Do You Hear? Which voice is louder… the still small whisper of God’s voice within your heart or the voice of others around you? We’ve all heard that old saying time and time again, “Mama knows best!”  We’ve also heard that sister or best friend declare what we should do in troublesome situations.  […]

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Thanks for Our Children

Gail Cawley Showalter Sons (and daughters) are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.  Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. – Psalms 127: 3-5 What do you want for your children – to be a doctor, lawyer, or […]