Tag Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter

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Transform Your Life

To Transform Your Life Growth is Required One of my favorite quotes is, “God never put anyone in a place too small to grow,” by Henrietta Mears. I believe all of life is about growth whether we realize it or not, whether we like it or not, and whether we do anything about it or […]

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Southeast Texas Scholarship Available

Do You Qualify for Grant? I’m looking for just the right female candidate in southeast Texas for a particular grant. Do you meet these qualifications? Enrolled and within 24 months of graduating college Out of school for continuous 24 months prior to starting back to college In financial need for tuition and childcare while in […]

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Graduation Time Again-Would You Like to Receive a Diploma?

  Related posts: Baby Steps You Can Graduate Again It’s that time of year again. Students are finishing a degree after many long years of study and hard, very hard work. Single mothers who return to school, whether for a four year or two year degree or another certification have made more than the customary […]

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Discover Personal Strength in Solitude

Are you Lonely? Related posts: Lessons from Loneliness, Creativity in Solitude There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Single mothers often experience acute loneliness. Lonely when they wake up in the morning. Lonely when they see other couples so happy together. Lonely when making decisions for the household. Lonely when climbing into […]

God Above All Else

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. – Psalms 36:6

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Personal Growth Requires Acceptance

Quote by Buffett

5 Habits for Single Moms

Habits Make the Woman   Gail Cawley Showalter If you want to make your life and household go smoothly I suggest looking at your habits. I’m telling you what I wish someone had told me oh so many years ago. My bad habits are catching up with me. Changing them at this point is no […]

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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?

Manners Are Not Old Fashioned-Manners Matter Even Today

Manners Matter is one of the SMORE  Related posts: Teaching Manners, Top 10 Manners, Teaching Kids Manners in Mannerless World Unfortunately so few families eat at the table anymore. The research is out that shows that families that eat meals together at the table have several positive results, like children who don’t drop out, kids […]

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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? […]