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Guideposts is a monthly inspirational, interfaith, non profit magazine written by people from all walks of life. Its articles help readers achieve their maximum personal and spiritual potential.

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Our Mothers, Ourselves
Strawberry ice cream. Do you have one little quirky detail about your mother that stays with you forever? Strawberry ice cream is mine. Even though she denied having a sweet tooth, Mom couldn’t resist strawberry ice cream. We usually had it around th
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“The Up Side ®
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Carousel
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! —PHILIPPIANS 4:4 (NIV) The pride of my small town is its historic carousel. Lions, unicorns, quails and frogs race alongside the brightly colored horses. Mirrors and music reflect light and jo
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Someone Cares
Several years ago, Cordelia Oxley, of London, England, was looking for a meaningful project to do out side work. She’d always loved to read—her dad owns an independent bookshop—and the idea of passing along books appealed to her. She joined a small g
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8 Date Night Ideas for Married Couples
There are two things you shouldn’t feel on a date—uninspired or worried you’re breaking the bank. Let’s be real, though. With the demands of career, home and family competing for your energy and attention, do you find you and your spouse settling for
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Begin Again
Gallatin, Tennessee At the end of June 2022, a few days before he was scheduled to have his right knee replaced, my husband went in for pre-op bloodwork. We’d been through this routine when John had his left knee replaced the year before. This time,
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Hoop Dreams
When basketball coach John Mosley got an offer to appear on television, his first thought was: No way. Bad idea. It was 2019. John, 46 at the time, was head coach of the East Los Angeles College Huskies. East L.A. College educates a diverse student
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Mysterious Ways
I moved to New York City straight out of college. I’d been there only a year when my brother and sister came to visit from Virginia for a week. Seventeen-year-old P.J. and 14-year-old Toni were excited to see the sights, and I was excited to show the
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The Reluctant Grandma
Chandler, Arizona I took my daughter Aleah to lunch, excited to hear the latest on her pregnancy. This was her first, and every day the anticipation was growing. “I was wondering, would you watch the baby after my maternity leave is over?” Aleah aske
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Road Test
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania ‘‘ You know what this evening needs?” I said to my family assembled in the kitchen. “Ice cream!” “I’ll go get some!” my 16-year-old daughter, Cassidy, said. Before I could object, Cassidy grabbed the keys to my Nissan Cube
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Garden Party
Rick Nelson epitomized all-American wholesomeness playing the son of his real-life parents in the 1950s–’60s sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He also emerged as a teen idol for singing old-time rock and roll, especially rockabilly, on hits
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Blessings in Abundance
Fort Worth, Texas I was at home helping my daughters with their online schooling when a text arrived on my phone. “Attention, salon employees,” the text said. “We are reopening this week. All employees are required to report to work. Contact your man
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A Moment of Understanding
Racine, Wisconsin The whole four-hour drive north from my home in Wisconsin to the town where my mother lived in Upper Michigan, I tried to quell my rising sense of dread. I was glad I had not come alone, that I had my good friend and prayer partner,
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Answered Prayers
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‘‘He Was Your Dad Too’’
Brazil, Indiana On Christmas Day, 2021, we got the call that my stepdad, Doug, had passed away. My husband, Eric, and I were shocked. It was so unexpected—and on Christmas, no less. We raced across the state of Indiana to be with Mom. We found her si
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A Journey of Faith
Edward’s story is excerpted from his new book, A Journey of Faith: A Mother’s Alzheimer’s, a Son’s Love and His Search for Answers. In this deeply personal narrative, Edward shares the all-too-relatable progression of his mother’s Alzheimer’s, its im
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The Late Innings
Surprisingly, one of the earliest signs of my mother’s memory problems was that she turned me from a Detroit Tigers fan into a New York Yankees fan. Please don’t boo. Hear me out. I am—or was—a born Philadelphia Phillies fan due to the fact that my m
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A Love That Forgives
Birmingham, Alabama I sat nervously in the waiting room of a psychologist. My husband Jerome’s plea for me to see a doctor had finally sunk in, yet not even Jerome knew the depth of my misery, how the sadness never went away, no matter how I tried to
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EVERYDAY GREATNESS Loose Ends
WHO THEY ARE Jennifer Simonic of Seattle, Washington, and Masey Kaplan of Portland, Maine, are longtime friends and avid knitters. They may live on opposite sides of the country, but they recently realized they’d had a common experience: Both had bee
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Healing Together
Woolwich Township, New Jersey I sat in my car at the school bus stop, waiting for my 14-year-old daughter, my heart racing with anxiety. “God, please let Kennedi be on that bus,” I whispered. That morning, when I dropped her off at the bus stop, she
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Prioritizing Mental Health for Teens
America’s teenagers are in the midst of what the U.S. Surgeon General recently called a mental health crisis. The pandemic, excessive screen time and all the usual stresses of ado lescence are driving up rates of depression, anxiety and suicide. Writ
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What Prayer Can Do ®
Farmington, New York My eight-year-old grandson, Hayden, lived in an apartment with his parents, but he kept his bicycle at our house. Every weekend he came to visit, I would try to teach him how to ride it. Bike riding is one of those things that yo
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Return to Anchor Bay
Eureka, California I hadn’t even wanted to return to Anchor Bay that June. My sister-in-law Michelle had died of Covid just a few months earlier, the day before her fiftieth birthday. This tiny slice of heaven in Northern California, tucked between H
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Family Room ®
Tam Jones (Bless-ings in Abundance, page 34) is expecting a new hire at her salon. “My husband, Luther, wants to be my business manager,” Tam says. Luther, a supervisor at AT&T for many years, was laid off recently. He started an expedited delivery b
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Continued
Ty’Ann Brown’s Keeping the Faith article in your Dec/Jan 2023 issue, about setting goals, helped and inspired me in my work as an itinerant preacher. I liked Ty’Ann’s gracious approach to moving forward despite not meeting a goal. She wrote, “When yo
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