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Billie Jo

Billie Jo is wife to Craig and mom to Rusty and Riesa. Formerly employed in the human service industry, the past fifteen years have been dedicated to homeschooling. She is a freelance writer for a number of print and internet publications. She is also passionate about serving in the community. She works in a GED preparation ministry and a community-based servant program that provides opportunities for youth to serve others. It is passion for the love of Jesus and His transforming work that motivates her writing and serving. "I love to see God at work in the lives of others and this is the way I see best."

In the Place of Love

Imagine yourself in a beautiful, safe place of love. It is a place you feel valued and able to do anything. You are free to be creative and to be yourself. That place of love is where God intends for you to live. My heart-felt prayer is that you know what ...

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Exchange Winter Weariness for Crystal Treasures

Winter is wearying.  The struggles it brings weigh down our days.  The bleak landscape and destructive power of winter can overwhelm even hardy souls.  The secular world names winter discouragement, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). With the light of faith, though, winter produces treasures.  The crystals of ice and snow proclaim ...

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Should You Love Yourself?

Few would argue that the world is full of self-centered, self-loving individuals.  Honestly, we all fall into that trap sometimes: “I want … ! And, I will have … !” We live in a society that counsels us, “Love yourself!” Such self-love causes great damage, and is, in fact, deadly. ...

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Two Options: Faith or Fear

Security, a sense of safety, is a basic need.  Even secular psychology recognizes this fundamental, biblical truth.  In fact, our human minds have only two default pathways to choose: faith or fear.  The path of fear leads to captivity and death.  The path of faith leads to hope and life.  ...

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Made for Relationship

We long for connection. In fact, from infancy to geriatric age, those denied human touch actually “fail to thrive.”  Some literally die from broken hearts; others choose suicide when relationships fail. We were made for relationship…with God! Created in His image, the very purpose of humanity was, is and always be ...

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