A Dance With Cancer
Following a devastating breast cancer diagnosis, Lindsay McDonnell did all of the right things, including challenging accepted traditional medical protocols and procedures. Yet, it returned not once, but three times. Today, Lindsay lives with a body full of cancer...
Book Review: The Last Arrow
Erwin Raphael McManus offers a thought-provoking, motivating treatise in The Last Arrow, published in 2017. In this episode, Beth discusses some of McManus' themes, such as what is represented by arrows, why we tend to hold back from pursuing our most important...
When Life Throws a Curveball
Dennis Mellen knew from the age of ten that he wanted to be a pilot, and set the entire trajectory of his life toward that goal. At fifty-six, he had enjoyed his dream career for more than 30 years when tragedy struck, and his well-planned life was...
A Vision of Mission
Elijah Stacy has arguably accomplished more in his twenty years than most people do in a lifetime. His mission, "to minimize human suffering and propel human prosperity so that humanity can have a better quality of life," directs all of his actions. What motivates a...
The Adventuresome Life
If you are feeling kind of ho-hum about your life right now, this episode is for you! Shawn Anderson shows us how to add adventure into our lives, and he would know: he has walked across eight countries and biked across America coast to coast twice! We'll learn how...
Patchwork of Possibilities
Perhaps you know a senior who is lacking purpose, or not feeling fulfilled. Perhaps you ARE that senior! It’s time to find another way of living, and author Sharon Rolphe is here to share her secrets. Sharon is a stunning 74-year-old, but her wisdom...
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When Lightning Strikes
This morning, I was approached by a man outside of a McDonald's who said he had seen me in the store, and was prompted by the Holy Spirit to give me a message. The message was "You are going to be fine." For someone still recovering from the effects of...
Traveling Light
Cleaning out my mother's house made me determined to run right home and do a similar decluttering in my own. After all, when do we ever have the motivation to work our way back to the last stray paperclip in the junk drawer, unless we have to hand the house over...
Heavenly Victory
It's been a while since I've had as satisfying an evening as watching Clemson decidedly triumph over Alabama, 44-16, in the national championship game. And before my Alabama friends get their feelings bruised, let me explain why. First, there was the way Clemson...
Introducing the Young YOU!
Last week, I had the privilege of cleaning out my mother’s home of forty-five years. The happy news is that she is still super healthy and living in Melbourne, Forida, equidistant between my two brothers. Her home in Ft. Lauderdale (the one I was emptying) was...
Mollie
I’m sure many of you, like me, were devastated to hear news of Mollie Tibbet’s body being discovered in a rural corn field. Mollie was a beautiful, vibrant young woman who should have been starting her sophomore year of college this fall. Her life took a tragic turn...
Centering Prayer and the Journey to Your True Self with Rich Lewis
What if silence is not the absence of God—but the place where you finally meet Him? In this *Lessons From Living* episode, Rich Lewis, author of *Sitting with God: A...
The Power of Purpose
Why is it important to figure out your purpose, and pursue it with intentionality? Terry Tucker, who has been living with a rare form of cancer for ten years, and enduring all that is required to stay alive, knows quite a bit about the power of purpose. We talk...
Capturing Thoughts
Life coach Robyn Moore describes the process of taking captive your thoughts, and therefore taking back your life from forces that seek to control you. This is scriptural, described in 2 Corinthians 10:5 as "taking captive every thought to make it obedient to...
Lasting Legacy
Ken Wimberly has earned much wisdom over the years, finding success in both business and family life. He shares tidbits about relationship-building, connecting others, finding purpose, manifesting a goal, daily rhythms, being people of action, living with intention,...
Overcoming Overwhelm
As a young nurse practitioner, balancing family and career life, Lauren Duroy found herself with a whole lot of stress and feelings of overwhelm, and few solutions. She decided to change that, and now shares her time hacks, memory methods and foundation of faith...
Loving Our Earth
Cathy Nesbitt is here to share about vermiculture composting: her vision of ridding our earth of garbage, in exchange for rich humus we can use in our gardening. What might surprise you is that Cathy has much wisdom about all areas of life, from discerning divine...
Growing Through Grief
Author Emily Thiroux Threatt intimately knows the subject she shares, having lost two husbands, and many other family members besides. But you don't have to have suffered a loss by death to have suffered loss, as Emily explains: we have all experienced loss in our...