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Surviving Major Life Crisis – by: Dwight Bain, Crisis Counselor Life is harder than ever, yet why do some people face major life transitions like a traumatic event, major financial stress, death, divorce, health problems, job loss, or business problems with a hopeful attitude of rebuilding and recovery while others just want to hide in fear? Everyone will face times of major life...

We're expecting another foot of snow starting tomorrow night. Winter unofficially started here in southern Wisconsin on December 1. When I sent the chocolate lab out the door to take care of business after that first blizzard started to dwindle, the snow was up to his elbows on the front walk. The plow guy has been through here three different times in a week, I think it's going to be a VERY...

Malachi 3:3 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.' This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him...

When we last visited my life, I was growing up on Catalina Island, where I graduated from High School in 1942 from Avalon High School. There where 13 of us in my class. I was 18 years old at that time and with the U.S. in war with Germany, I was required to register for the draft. I spent the summer of '42 on the Island and not too long after that, my number came up in the draft. I was sent...

It wasn’t on the fire ground or an accident, or even on the dangerous interstate highway—there were no warning signs—just a physical that the fire station requires. The chief is always asking if everyone went for their physical; and the answer is normally, “yes” or “I have an appointment.” I was one of the lucky ones. I have been a volunteer firefighter for Greenfield Township...