by holdingRcN | Oct 15, 2018 | change, personal growth
Sometimes it seems much longer than two months since we loaded the last items into our car and drove away from what has been home for 22 years. In many ways, I feel like like I’m on an extended vacation. Any day now, we’ll drive those familiar country...
by holdingRcN | Jun 13, 2018 | change, courage, home, hope, letting go, life, personal growth
Starting a new chapter in my life has always been difficult. About twenty-three years ago, we put our house on the market in Auburn, Washington where we’d lived for more than a decade. I remember the ache I felt when I saw the “for sale” sign in our...
by holdingRcN | Mar 8, 2018 | Billy Graham, children, encouragement, faith, God's love, grace, gratitude, hope, Jesus Christ, legacy, personal growth
“We all have a Billy Graham story,” one of his daughters said at his funeral last Friday. It’s true. The Reverend Billy Graham touched countless lives during his decades of ministry, including mine. In 1979, I attended the Billy Graham Crusade on...
by holdingRcN | Feb 8, 2018 | addiction, alcoholism, comfort, compassion, difficult relationships, encouragement, faith, forgiveness, friendship, gratitude, hope, life, love, loving others, Marriage, perseverance, personal growth, reconciliation, recovery, substance abuse, women
God still sends angels: ones with skin, hair and belly laughs. Angels like our friend, Jim. I met him at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where I was the speaker for Al-Anon. I remember feeling at a loss for encouraging words. My situation with Randy and his alcoholism...
by holdingRcN | Nov 22, 2016 | encouragement, goal setting, life, personal growth
It’s hard to believe 2017 is right around the corner. It seems like I blinked and now it’s mid-November. Approaching year’s-end gets me thinking about what I’ve accomplished during the previous 12 months. Goal-setting has always been...
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