Author Archives: Heart of the Matter

Dads and daughters

  Last night as we were sitting around our family room after dinner, my husband asked my daughter, “Have I ever shown you how to play Backgammon?” Our teenage daughter, with a suspicious grimace and a roll of the eyes said, … Continue reading

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Our Journey to Heart Health (Part 3)

Post-surgery recovery Seeing my husband in the cardiac ICU unit was a very difficult thing. He looked so vulnerable, a state in which I was not used to seeing him. As we walked in to his cubicle for the first time, I … Continue reading

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Our Journey to Heart Health (Part 2)

    The Triple By-Pass After meeting with our surgeon and setting the date for my husband’s triple by-pass, we went home to pray and prepare for his impending surgery. It had all happened so fast. His surgery was set for … Continue reading

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New Year’s resolutions: self-serving or kingdom-focused?

  I read an article recently in the  Florida Baptist Witness,  by Hunter Leavine, regarding the self-serving intent of many New Year’s resolutions. It was a great article and really spoke to me. He wrote about how most of our resolutions are … Continue reading

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Our Journey to Heart Health (Part 1)

Dear Readers, In honor of National Heart Month, and in light of my husband’s recent cardiac event, I am adding a new feature to my blog. It will be called “Our Journey to Heart Health” and will appear weekly. My … Continue reading

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