Lynn Donovan
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You Thought You Weren’t One
The most unexpected thing happened to me yesterday. Seated next to my daughter and her best friend, I opened my Bible to the passage and listened as the pastor began to read Luke 15. While he was reading this familiar passage, powerful emotion rose up from some place deep within me. He arrived at verse…
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Marriage Monday – In-Laws
…nearly 60 percent of all marriages suffer from tension with mothers-in-law, normally between the daughter-in-law and her husband's mother. It's Marriage Monday. Our topic: In-Laws I wonder how many of you felt your blood pressure rise at the mere mention of this topic? Well, considering the statistic above, I can bet a number of you…
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Out-Love Your Spouse – The Final Chapter?
We are ending the last week of our “Out-Love” our spouse challenge. This is only the starting place. Our challenge is the beginning of a new way of life. An intentional effort to love our spouse with the love of Christ. I will never forget what Shelly shared with me months ago. It has forever…
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Out-Love Your Spouse – The Result
Why? Why make the effort to out-love my husband. Why must it always be me to make the first move? Why can’t he change for once? Why? Several months have passed since I first met Shelly Weaver. She has been used by God to inspire many of us here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage to live…
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Who Are You Fighting With? Out-Love Your Spouse
I have been writing about walking the Christian walk in a spiritually mismatched marriage now for a long time. One thing I have discovered is that when we take on a challenge here at SUM it is met with enthusiasm and hope by many of you. …..at the beginning. Here we are in week three.…
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Thankful Thursday –
Thankful Thursday is back here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for the month of October. Woo Hoo! Achoo! Sniffle, sniffle. Good day every one and pass the Kleenex. Where’s the Nyquil? Do you feed a cold and starve a fever or feed and fever and starve a cold? Sheesh! Yep, cold number four this year. Thankfully,…
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Out-Love Your Spouse – Your Ideas
Hi My Friends, Well, I think this post is going to be a little off track and unorganized. For some reason I have another cold and the headache is persistent today, so I will be brief. This Friday I'm going to share with you what happens in an ordinary marriage when you put the principals…
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Out-Love Your Spouse – It’s time for the Next Challenge
I have to tell you that this first part of this challenge, God really put me to task. I discovered it is monumentally difficult, at least for me, to change speech patterns that are decades old. What is hilarious to me is that concurrent to working through this challenge, I am also facilitating a Bible…
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Thankful Thursday – Honor God
Thankful Thursday is back here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for the month of October. Woo Hoo! —– Yesterday I was privileged to sit down and share lunch with Pam Farrel. Many of you may know Pam and her husband, Bill. They have been writing and speaking about Godly marriages for years and years. One of…
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Out-Love Your Spouse –
A Challenge, A Change, A CandleA Challenge: Last Monday was our first challenge and we met Shelly Weaver who has been living with purpose to out-love her husband. She shared her desire to serve the Kingdom, feed the homeless and work in ministry but God, through her pastor, put her feet to the fire so to speak. She needed to FIRST…
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Out-Love your Spouse – Sowing and Reaping
Well how was the first week? I have to tell you that I have been on this journey for a few months already and I find it extraordinarily difficult. So don’t become discouraged. There are lessons to be learned and God surely had to teach me a few things this week. Sometimes He must show…
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Thankful Thursday – It’s all about Perspective
Thankful Thursday is back here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for the month of October. Woo Hoo! We have a busy month around here and for all of you joining us today, welcome to our marriage challenge. Out-Love Your Husband/Wife If you missed the video posted Monday, I promise it’s worth your time. Just read the…
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Kids in the Mix – Marriage Monday
It’s Marriage Monday and I am able to hop in and share this week. As most of us “Add Kids to the Mix,” Marriage Monday is expanding to cover the topic, Kids. I recently finished writing a talk for MOPS, about raising kids: Raising Kid’s to Integrity and Faith. It was a wonderful process to…
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Parent’s Do You Help or Hinder Your Kids?
Some of you know that my 16-year-old daughter became a licensed driver in June. In California, the teen driver’s license is a provisional license. There are several conditions a driver must meet to drive legally. One provision particularly is creating some challenges in the Donovan home. But it also developing a young woman of character.…
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A Married Single. Help a Girl Out
I'm part of a small group. It's composed of mostly couples and last night was our first meeting since the summer break. As this was our first meeting, the gathering was large. Several new people joined this fall. As the group kicked off, the introductions began. "This is my wife… This is my husband."… “We’ve…
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Thankful Thursday – Eerie Beauty
Thankful Thursday is hosted this September with Iris. Yesterday I stepped outside for my morning walk; the fog had rolled in overnight. As I was walking I watch the grace sky melt away and the brilliant blue appear overhead. As the sun spayed its light around me it illuminated the many spider webs that are present…
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Chronicles of the Donovan Clan –
NEVER The SameI will Never Be The Same. I hope after these word I share with you that YOU will never be the same. Last week two women arrived at my home. They are from a town about an hour away where I recently went to speak to their group. They call themselves the Warrior Wives and…
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I’m Not Strong Enough
…..To be the spiritual leader of our home.…..To be a consistent Godly example to my spouse – to my children. …..To bare the physical demands of a career – raising the children – cleaning my home – cooking and the sum total of all the expectations placed on me. I ‘m at the end of…
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Prayer Is Where Our Power Lives
"We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth." Andrew Murray Today I'm sharing a post from a series I wrote about prayer that I originally shared back in 2008. It remains,…
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Raising Kids and Back to School
School started today (Wedsnesday) at the Donovan Clan home. As I write this, I just watched my daughter get into the car and drive off for her first day as a junior. I waved. She waved in return. Then she was off. I stood in the driveway. I didn’t cry or worry about her day.…
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Donovan Clan Is Dating
Some interesting things are happening in the Donovan Clan house. And today I want to share with you some of my thoughts about all of it. I also will acknowledge that some of you will disagree with me and some of you I might offend. However, I also know there a many of us moms…