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Caregiving Cocker
I just returned from a trip to Israel with a group of Guideposts readers. (Hi, guys! Hope everyone got home safe.) We had a wonderful time visiting the iconic sites of the Holy Land. Just as enriching were the conversations we shared. There were seve
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Someone Cares
My husband, Joe, and I got a great housewarming gift from my brother: He built us a wooden bench for our porch. We live on a hill that overlooks a river and walking path. Joe and I decided the bench would get more use next to the path. We were right—
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Carol Zemola Garsee
who she is Carol Zemola Garsee is a 77-year-old cyclist. Though biking since childhood, Carol went on her first long-distance ride (500 miles!) in 1994 for the American Lung Association, after her mother—an avid cyclist—died of lung cancer. She loves
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Spiritual Wealth
FROM MONK TO MONEY MANAGER. Not only is that the title of a book I’ve written, but it’s pretty much my résumé. For 20 years, I was a monk, and now I’m a partner at a wealth management company. Sound like two completely different callings? The irony o
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Mysterious Ways
It was a beautiful July evening, the sky still bright. I had all the windows down as I drove home from work, the smell of mowed grass drifting in on the breeze. I rolled to a stop at a red light. I found myself not wanting it to change. I didn’t reli
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Something New
I WOKE TO POUNDING. BAM, bam, bam. What was that racket? I got up and looked out the window. My husband and the two youngest of my five boys were in the side yard, working under the canopy of our Norway maple. Tools lay scattered on the ground. They
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Your Greatest You
I SAT ON THE BED IN MY OLD ROOM IN my parents’ house in Fort Worth, looking at the pictures on the walls, the trophies lining the shelves. Football. It had always been about football. In high school, in college at Baylor, where I’d been a star wide r
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Finding Alice
I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH TERMINAL kidney cancer two years ago. I felt all the emotions you’d expect. Shock. Dread. Grief. Self-pity. One emotion surprised me. Even more surprising, it turned out to be the emotion that outlasted all the others, growing st
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Healing Relationships in Recovery
Healthy relationships are one of the primary casualties of substance abuse. Addiction above all is a disease of isolation. Friends and family are hurt and bewildered by their addicted loved one’s self-focused and self-destructive behavior. A major ta
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5 Ways to Be a Better Listener
Diane Stark was right to worry about her widowed mother-in-law. Research shows that social isolation takes a toll on health, well-being and quality of life, especially as we get older. That’s why the Good Samaritan Society developed Kin Ministry, an
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Connected
I WALKED INTO MY MOTHER-IN-law’s house, as always, without knocking. My father-in-law, Larry, had died months earlier, but part of me still expected to find him in his recliner in the living room, watching The Waltons on TV. “Hello,” I called out. “I
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Our Mysterious Friendship
ARE YOU OKAY?” I ASKED MY friend Sara as we walked to our table in Great China, our favorite restaurant. “I’m just a little out of breath,” she said, sitting slowly. Eight years older than me, at 78, Sara suffered from congestive heart failure. Rheum
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Care Companions
THE SOUND OF WHIMPERING woke me in the middle of the night. It was our 11-month-old Bichon-poodle puppy, Beethoven. He sniffed at our closed bedroom door. He had never done that before. You already went outside, I thought. What could it be now—a bad
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6 Ways Seniors Can Interact With Pets
Edwina Perkins, Donna deNobriga Winningham and Monica Morris found that their family pets brought their senior loved ones comfort, companionship and joy. Research on the websites of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute and the therapy animal orga
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The Human Chain
MY HUSBAND SPRANG THE IDEA on me at the last minute that Saturday evening, July 8, 2017. I didn’t even have a chance to go into mission mode. That’s our name for how I like to tackle things, from big projects like moving to everyday stuff like grocer
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The Wind And The Water
DARK AND RAINY ON THE MIS-souri River. I paddled my kayak through choppy water. Somewhere ahead of me was the finish of the race I’d begun almost 15 hours earlier, the South Dakota Kayak Challenge. The course runs 72 windy, wave-tossed miles from Yan
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What Prayer Can Do®
When I founded Raise Your Dreams Farms, I thought I was following God’s plan, providing equine therapy for people of all ages and physical situations. People with epilepsy, catastrophic injuries, autism—anyone could benefit from interacting with the
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Family Room
Trent Shelton (Your Greatest You, page 28) doesn’t claim to have all the answers. But in reminding people of simple truths, he has attracted millions on social media. Twitter and Instagram followers of @trentshelton (as well as his Facebook fans) get
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Reader Scam Alert!
The thing we value most is your trust. We’re concerned whenever we hear that you’ve been approached by scam artists claiming to represent Guideposts. It can be hard to tell if a sales call or offer in the mail is legitimate because scam artists sound
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Continued
Mitch Horowitz’s story The Power of Visualization, in the February 2019 issue of Guideposts, caught my attention. I’ve been practicing visualization for years. I learned about it when I read The Power of Positive Thinking, written by Guideposts co-fo

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