Tricia Goyer's Blog, page 254

Marriage tune-up

Originally posted on Focus on the Family



We heard the news via email. Another husband and wife we knew were getting divorced.

They seemed like the perfect couple. They both had thriving careers and great kids. There was no infidelity, and no financial woes burdened them down. They'd just grown apart. They'd become more like roommates than committed partners. Now they were going their

Thrusday on Living Inspired: Gregg Murset and Joanne Kraft

To listen to the interview: go here and click on the player in the upper right corner of the screen. Thursday at 3:00 pm Central.

For a chance to win a copy of Joanne Kraft's Just Too Busy, be sure to stop by the show's website via the link above and leave a comment with your e-mail address!

I'm really excited this week to be able to talk to Gregg Murset and Joanne Kraft!

Gregg Murset is

On starting over ... My parenting is different because I'm different.

I have kids ages 22, 19, 17 and 1, and often people ask me if my parenting different this second time around. Yes. Yes it is.



Overall I'm far more patient with Alyssa. I know that little ones require time and attention--lots of it. I'm more lenient, too. When it's nap time I snuggle with her on my bed, we giggle and sing songs until
she drifts off to sleep. I know this isn't the "let her go

I can't tell you how many times a week I hear, "How do you do it all?"

My answer is, "I don't." But from the smiles, nods and looks I get I don't think people believe me.

Honestly people, I can't do it all. Or as they say in the South, "Bless your heart" for thinking I do.

Some things I haven't done lately.



Put away my laundry.
Dealt with the pile of mail in the kitchen.
Painted my fingernails. (Haven't done this in a year.)
Returned some calls. (Yeah, need

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First - I have to let you know that the Chasing Mona Lisa campaign starts on Monday! My co-author, Mike Yorkey, and I are chomping-at-the-bit-excited about this book. Chasing Mona Lisa is the follow up story to our 2010 release, The Swiss Courier. Here's a sneak peak at what's coming.










 

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Amish Wisdom: Elizabeth Younts and Cindi Ferrini

To listen to the interview: go here and click on the player in the upper right corner of the screen. Thursday at 3:00 pm Central.

This week I will be talking to Elizabeth Younts and Cindi Ferrini -- you don't want to miss this show!!

Both of these lovely ladies will be giving away a copy of their books! For a chance to win either a copy Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl or Balancing

The Wonderful People I Interview...

I received an email today from a historian I met from the Big Sandy Montana Historical Society, telling me a man my co-writer Ocieanna Fleiss and I interviewed had passed away. Keith Edwards was born in Big Sandy Montana and died across the street from where he was born. He was 93-years-old and his parents were some of the first homesteaders in the area. I was thinking today that if it wasn't

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Even a 25 cent notebook can carry a testimony of God's work in your life 


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I have a bad habit of leaving journals lying around. I love to jot down my thoughts, observations, ideas, Scripture, but I may leave my journal in the kitchen, or on the bedside table, or tuck it away with my devotional books on a shelf.

When I say journal, I mean notebook. I do have a fancy leather

Thursday On Living Inspired: Kurt Bjorklund and Betsy St. Amant

To listen to the interview: go here and click on the player in the upper right corner of the screen. Thursday at 3:00 pm Central.

I'm excited this week to be talking to Kurt Bjorklund and Betsy St. Amant!

Kurt Bjorklund is currently the senior pastor of Orchard Hill Church right outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His book Prayers for Today is a collection of classic and contemporary prayers,

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