Lynn Donovan
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Hope That Endures
Hi Friends! Here’s the first of the two part hope series I wrote last August. I love this series and “hope” it will bring you encouragement again. Catch part two next week. Then I’ll be back! How do we keep hoping when everything we see tells us there is no hope? The very definition of…
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Dead-End Street
A Dead-End…. …Divorce… …Failed adoption… …Lost job… …Friendship betrayed… …Circumstances… …Cancer… Arrival on: Dead End Street This is a familiar road to me, perhaps to you as well. We arrive in this desolate place by many different vehicles and at various speeds. I have ambled down this road in a slow, painful progression, via a…
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Kid’s and Everyday Faith
A couple of Friday’s back I wrote a post about our kids going back to school. I talked about ways we can impact our children’s lives with Jesus. Today, I have a few more suggestions I hope will inspire. Original Post: Kid’s are abandoning their Faith (click here). The idea is to begin some new…
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The Most Dangerous Prayer
Hi friends! I’m still traveling! Here’s a post I wrote in November of 2007 that is still so relevant. 🙂
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A Death In The Family
This week I received an email from a very close friend. She has been a reader here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for some time now. I have grown to love her and her family deeply. This week my sister in the Lord wrote me to tell me of a death in her family. Reeling in…
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Life…Interrupted
Hi friends! I’m on the road traveling, and life is full of interruptions at the moment. Just wanted to share this post I wrote in May of 2007 with you again. 🙂 So often we think we have things under control. Life is going along fine. Then it happens, that one thing you never expected.…
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Marriage Monday – Men and Play
Today is Marriage Monday. Our topic this month is; Men and Play Recreational companionship is an important need in men. Husband’s want their wives to partner with them when they play. I have a weird and funny story about this very subject. It happened to me last week while I was blow-drying my hair. Without…
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Kids are abandoning their Faith
A new study by The Barna Group (Ventura, California) shows that despite strong levels of spiritual activity during the teen years, most twentysomethings disengage from active participate in the Christian faith during their young adult years-and often beyond that. In total, six out of ten twentysomethings were involved in a church during their teen years,…
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The Judgment of Others
I spoke with a friend at church Sunday who is also unequally yoked, and she brought up an issue I think we all run into at one point or another. As unequally yoked spouses, what can we do to cross the faith barrier to connect with our unbelieving spouses? And in so doing, how do…
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Would you Change Churches?
I have spending a significant amount of time thinking about church. I am one of the thousands of spouses who pray in hope that my husband will want to attend church. In our early years, of course, this prayer was completely self-centered. I wanted my man to become a Christian because my life would be…
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What’s in the Mail? –
Weekend DevotionRecently I joined a prison ministry called Soaring Spirits and became a “Rose.” A Rose is assigned a female inmate who is attending Christian seminars through the Soaring Spirits ministry and commits to sending a card of encouragement each month. Today as I was writing my card, I felt led to write a scripture verse…
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She Wasn’t Pretty!
It was Friday morning. The alarm buzzed an awful warning that another jam-packed day awaited. The lumpy hotel mattress and over-large stuffed pillow contributed to the pounding headache which was beating in rhythm with the blaring alarm. This was day 12 of our travels. I rubbed my eyes stumbled over the discarded bedspread piled on…
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When Our World Shakes
Our human nature makes us naturally resistant to change. And we tend to view any kind of shake up with a negative eye. It makes sense…naturally. So how do we shift our viewpoint from the natural to the eternal when God is shaking up our lives? If we’re to believe God is sovereign and nothing…
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Fantasy Football and God
Say What?Many of you who have been readers at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for some time know I hear from God while in the bathroom. Many times I am buck nakid’ in the shower and sometimes I am in the closet getting dressed. Today I was blow-drying my hair…. Guess what the Lord prompted me to do?…
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Weekend Devotion – For All the Strivers Out There
“Cease striving and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10 I have this Scripture written on an index card right now. (Yes, a pink one!) I need this verse so badly. See, I’m a perfectionist by nature and very performance driven. This verse tells me I don’t have to be. It tells me that…
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Don’t Save Your Spouse….
…..Save yourself…. Over the past couple of days I have had a little trip down memory lane. I am wondering if you would also travel down this lane with me. I have posted in months prior about my feeble attempts to save my husband. As if Jesus needed my help, thank you very much. I…
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Thankful Thursday – What is a Bovine?
Twenty-five years… It’s been a long time…. My daughter and I returned this week from a 15-day road trip. What trip it was!!! We drove from California to Nevada, visited with my son and long-time friend Becky. Then we set out for Southern Utah to visit my Dad’s ranch. A week later, on to Colorado…
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Unified by Circumstances
I had the wonderful opportunity to speak and share with a group of ladies Monday evening as part of the Daughters of Sarah ministry at Riverslake Church in Bakersfield, CA. We all share a common bond-being unequally yoked. Again, I’m amazed at how just knowing we’re not alone can minister to the ache in our…
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What’s In Your Camp?
This scripture started it all: Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you. If you remember I began this journey back…
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Showing Christ
If I could tell my husband one thing today, I would tell him I love him. If I could speak special words to him today, I would speak of my love for him. If I could show him who I love most, I would show him Christ. How do we show Christ? How do we…