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I don’t know about you, but every year I struggle with finding the perfect gift for my family and friends. It is almost a mission to seek out the right gift balancing between the person’s needs, wants, and talents. When the right gift is discovered it is pure joy to watch them open it and it is in moments like that when it is truly better to give then to receive. This year as finances have...

By Bill A. Gaspard, Life Recovery Coach -Effectively talking with God can seem intimidating to some. It takes heart, obedience and discipline. We are working out a muscle that we haven’t used very often and it will take some time to get it in shape. My favorite definition for the word discipline is “control gained by obedience or training.” We all want to control something, but in prayer the...

My Fathers' House This is a story of Singleness, Trust and the Power of a relationship with Christ. It was written right before my youngest had turned one year old, and we (myself, my 5 year old daughter and my 10 month old daughter) as a family were moving on from the gift of living with my sister for the first year of McKenna's life. Afraid, doubtful, and full of the self sufficient...

I just found out that my Sister has Cancer in her pelvis and hip. She has had breast cancer about 10 years ago and her Doctor said this new area came from the breast. She is on crutches and a wheel chair now. she has been in good spirits and we are hoping the new medication will help her go into remission.I have also found out that my maternal nephew has brain cancer. he is not doing so well. he...

My neck and back had been hurting lately, and I visited my chiropractor. He suggested that since I use a laptop, the screen is in the wrong position. He advised me to put the computer up on phone books, and get a new keyboard. (Did you know that the proper height for your computer screen is for the top of the screen to be at eye level?) So off I went to Staples and came home...

To my Growing Bolder family and our readers,I have been away to God’s land, Ethiopia (my beloved home) and I am back to the blessed land America my beautiful home. While I was in Ethiopia, on a daily and hourly basis I get to hear the prayer from Ethiopian orthodox churches where I grew up, the prayer from the Mosques, the chants and songs of the evangelicals, the monks and the spirituals...

When you walk the roads of the Internet, you will learn about different cultures. One day I learned about blessings, something I thought only a pope did. Or a priest perhaps. I realized I don’t know much about what drives religious people. The importance of prayers was not very known to me, but as people do find comfort in prayers, I want to know more. As a toddler, before my family...