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Learn How to Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage!

If you’ve ever thought your marriage problems would be solved if you and your spouse simply stopped fighting… think again! This video series is for you! Based on the book, Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage, this series goes deeper with author Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Erin Smalley from Focus on the Family. They use years of counseling, research, and success stories to teach us how to use marital conflict as a way to deepen and… … Continue reading

Why I’m Not Ready to Forgive Yet

We walked up the car with our mouths wide open. Even from a distance, I knew something was wrong. My boyfriend and I had just enjoyed a beautiful fall hike in the woods at a public park and returned to find that his car had been broken into. My first thought was, there is no way that’s our car! There is no way that someone smashed out the window in the car I drove here in.… … Continue reading

Children in Guatemala Are Learning to Forgive Because of You

Imagine being curled up in your bed at night falling fast asleep holding a pair of sneakers. It sounds ridiculous, but that’s exactly what the children want to do in the group foster home that I visited in Guatemala with Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls. Sixteen year old Diego is like most of the children who enter this home, he came in with only the clothes on his backs as his belongings. His shoes were… … Continue reading

You Reminded a Child in Guatemala that God is With Them Through a Pair of Shoes

“Suzi is so full of life and happy, you would never even know that she is sick.” This sentence stopped me in my tracks. “Suzi?” I asked. “The Suzi that just played with us all morning and was all smiles? She seems so healthy.” Then the English teacher at Buckner’s Family Hope Center in Guatemala began to explain to me that although Suzi seemed happy with us today, she was in a coma from a… … Continue reading

See How You Provided Hope for This Family in Guatemala!

“There is one final child who will need shoes today,” they said as they led 4 year old Wendy over to me.   Her faced seemed slightly unsure of me as I led her to a chair and helped her take off her old, dirty, worn out sandals. Wendy’s concern broke into excitement when I presented her brand new velcro sneakers thanks to many WAYFM listeners just like you! Joy here, and I am in Guatemala with… … Continue reading

3 Steps to Start Loving Your Body

“Ugh, you are so fat, I bet everyone notices. Her arms are so much more toned than yours, why don’t you go to the gym more? Your thighs are disgusting!” If I heard someone say any of these things to someone else, then I would be furious and demand that they apologize. Yet, these are things that have crossed my mind daily! We are SO HARD on ourselves! I was reading this article called “4 Truths to Remember… … Continue reading