My husband and I have struggled with our marriage for many years.

If feel that there is still a love deep down for one another (we have been married

For 22 years), but not the type of love to sustain a marriage.  We have

My husband, a former Pastor, has given up his church and moved out…saying he is tired of fighting the devil….yes, there is more to this story…too much to put her, but basically it all boils down to him wanting to give up this Christian Life and live in the world. He has filed for divorce and me and my children are totally devastated, along with our church, in which I still attend.  We were married 15 years, have 2 children 9 and 12.  Please pray that God will have

My name is Jenna and I am 23, going to college. I am stuggling and falling behind in school. I am overwhelmed with fear and doubt to the point where it is effecting other areas of my life.  Pray that the Lord will strengthen me, and pour His grace upon me in my time of need.  I’m praying for direction and a lot of help!  Please pray with me.
 
Thank you and God bless you,
 
Jenna

Would you please pray for my grandson Ashton he has been born with a genetic problem and surfers from seizures. He wil get an EEG on Mon. 1/19/09 to see how his medicine is working. Would you pray for his healing and to have great results from the test plus for it to go well physically for him. They will

cause him to have a seizure to check how his medicine and seizures are being controlled. Thank you.

His mother has a friend that just had a child born and needs stomach surgery tomorrow thanks again for… Read More

Please pray for my son. The woman he got pregnant filed false abuse charges on him and her grandma is going to testify against her.

Pray for the baby she just gave birth on Jan. 5th. She let me see him for an hour and will not let my son see him at all and she has moved out of state with the baby. She took drugs the entire pregnancy and

My grandson 2 yrs was in a traffic accident and has traumatic brain injury .  He is not able to hold his head up, talk, use his left side , swallow, any many more things Please put him in your prayers

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My name is Tasha and my grandma needs a lot of prayer right now.

Well on Christmas day she had 4 Heart attacks, and she crashed for 10 mins.
We would’ve lost her if they didnt bring her back. They said she has 2 ruptured lungs,and she doesn’t  have much oxygen to her brain.

They put her back on the breathing machine.

Her eyes are now set she doesn’t move her eyes they’re just looking in one spot, and she now can’t move her hands or anything and doesn’t respond to anything, or to anybody.

Yesterday The Doctors got the family together, and told

Please pray for Kathy who just found out she has a brain tumor.  Please pray for her appointment with the neurosurgeon and for her family.

Thanks, 

Stephanie

I just wanted to take the time out & pray that my boyfriend of two years will go to the doctor for swallon lymph noads in which he refuses to go the first time I mentioned it. He’s 25 & I am 22. His name is Robert, his fears of going to the doctor are from his mother dieing in the hospital of cancer, she had breast cancer at first than the doctors were able to get rid of it, well then

It’s been a year already? Seems like we just finished putting the angel to bed, and we’ve had to unpack her again. Minutes quickly turn to hours—hours to days, and just like that another year has gone by.

We’re celebrating our third Christmas online at CWO, by offering words of inspiration that we pray will turn our hearts toward the Reason for the Season—our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

P31 woman, Renee Swope joins

CWO monthly columnist, Candace Cameron Bure, is on the cover of US Weekly discussing her weight loss success! Look for it in stores now.

Candace, who grew up in the stick-thin environment of Hollywood told US Weekly that her parents, “shielded me from that kind of pressure [weight loss]. It was important that I knew my value as a person and never struggled with my image on the outside.” Being 132 pounds at her heaviest, weight was never as much of a focus to Candace as feeling good… Read More

This news is so good; you won’t want to take it standing up! Sitting down? Good, because what I’m going to tell you this month can change the way you eat, and as a result–the way you look. The best part of it is that this transformation of body and mind will take place in the comfort of your favorite chair. Sound easy? It is! 

Do you realize just how often you eat on your feet?

God has been so gracious and kind to allow me the privilege of interviewing a precious sister in the Lord.

Renee Swope was born in New Orleans, and raised in North Carolina since she was twelve. During her senior year in college, she fell “head-over-heels” in love with our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, and her life has never been the same.

Although Renee felt God call her to share her story of how He used her journey through depression… Read More

If there’s one thing Boomer Babes have in common, it’s the realization that time flies more quickly the older we get. Although other generations may echo this sentiment, it seems to me that boomers tend to be more acutely aware not only of the speed with which time passes, but also of the inherent value of time itself.

This Christmas my family is preparing to move to a new state to start a new church. The opportunity is an answer to prayer and something we are very much looking forward to, but packing to sell a house during the holidays can take a bit of the shine out of Christmas decorating. While we won’t be spending much time decking our halls with boughs of holly, we can dress up our holiday table in record time with a few creative

“’Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.” (Mark 6:31)

My prayer for this holiday season is that you find the One who came so long ago, born in a manger.  Satan would love to fill our calendars with things to do, people to see, “important” tasks to complete, but this is not what the Lord had intended when we remember the birth… Read More

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

(2 Thessalonians 2:15 KJV)

“Holiday traditions” is a statement that is echoed at this time of year. Just hearing these words drums up warm memories in most of our hearts.

Traditions are powerful and are created when we repeat actions or behaviors. Through tradition we pass down beliefs, customs and practices from generation to generation. What we inherited through tradition may last many years to come. What… Read More

Are you Holidazed by the media?? You know, the special ads in the magazines with “Get that “Suzie Superstar” look with this product, all for $99.00…Or “Save Big with this Season Hottest colors” just buy this product to go with this product and layer it with?- and you too can look like a supermodel.

The good new is… You can achieve that Vogue cover look with a few inexpensive products. Something so simple right? - and it doesn’t have a Hollywood price tag to make it fabulous.

Youthful… Read More

I am living in a snowglobe. Every handful of minutes, the wind visits the alders and maples and evergreens surrounding our house and sends a shower of white billowing about. Inside this globe, I sit in front of the woodstove and watch the orange glow on the other side of the tempered glass. The sounds of David Lanz’s Christmas CD fills the house. To my left, our 15-foot Christmas tree towers. If I had my druthers, the massive fir would be draped head to toe in white lights; for the… Read More

Every year it happens. The catalogs arrive. My children—who didn’t even know they needed a whole truckload of toys—suddenly become convinced that they, in fact, do. And the ensuing weeks are spent begging, whining, and listing off the many things their hearts desire. As a parent, it never gets easier to navigate between their lists of wants and needs, deciding what can stay and what can go. We want to give them everything, yet we know we shouldn’t. At Christmas more than ever, our hearts stray towards the thought of their little faces… Read More

It is never too late to follow your dreams! In today’s fast-paced, instant-gratification world, it is easy to feel like you are missing something… like your moment has passed you by. In Don’t Miss Your Moment, Judy Jacobs presents a message of hope: it isn’t too late! With both contemporary and scriptural examples, she demonstrates how you can get back in touch with your dreams, experience the best

I lose it two weeks before Christmas Day in the morning.

The kids string popcorn by the fire, untangle lights for the tree, curl sprays of shimmering ribbons, and I wildly dismantle the house. Losing a ring, a gift that had been sent to me from Iona Abbey, makes me lose it. Centuries of pilgrims had made the journey to the stone monastery in Iona, Scotland, to kneel low and pray long. And my Iona ring, a Celtic knot, was like a silver string around my finger, reminding me… Read More

Mother is the most beautiful word in the English language, says a survey conducted by the British Council. According to the survey’s results, the ten most beautiful words are:

Mother
Passion
Smile
Love
Eternity
Fantastic
Destiny
Freedom
Liberty
Tranquillity

Lovely words, all of them. But reading that got me to thinking: what are a mother’s favorite words? Hmmmm…..how about sleep? Yep, that would probably be it—especially if the word is preceded by the adjective uninterrupted. Ah, bliss!

A mom’s second most-beloved word or phrase? It just might be, “I’ll change his diaper… Read More

Today my husband, Jim, and I went to the crafts store to buy Christmas decorations. We purchased one of those 12 foot, pre-lit faux trees that you can erect in 15 minutes, or so the box says. In truth, we still can’t get the bottom three rows of tree branches to light and we’ve been at this for over and hour!  

But, Christmas really is my favorite time of the year. The lights, the sense of anticipation in children’s eyes, and the pleasant demeanor of people make this time of the year… Read More

The holidays are approaching—quickly!

When it comes to “wrapping up,” I’m not talking about wrapping up the gifts. I’m talking about how to end a holiday party (or even a dinner party) on time! 

I mean, how do you send your guests out the door in a time frame that works for you?

Is it ok to end a party when your guests are having a good time?

After I held a Fall Neighborhood Luncheon in October, a couple of my readers asked me these questions:

Sandy, I want to know how… Read More

About a year ago, I got an idea for a site that would help organize your home in fun, practical, innovative ways. I can’t tell you those ways–not yet anyway. We don’t have the software yet (but the programmer is on the job! :). But we–and that “we” includes my two partners, Andy and Nichelle Isaacson–have taken the first step toward making that site a reality.

Please

Each month CWO chooses one blogger from our list of over 3,000 women to be CWO’s blog of the month.

This month’s pick is Leigh Gray from “Speaking Thru Me.”

Leigh describes her blog by saying, “it was birthed through what I feel God does in me and through me each day–Speak. This blog is a journal of my personal time with the Lord each day. I am not a private person for the most part and have always allowed my diary or heart to be read… Read More

Many of us will remember Candace Cameron Bure from ABC’s Full House, where we affectionately knew her as “DJ Tanner.” Today Candace is a role model to young women everywhere, with a testimony of growing up in Hollywood, while growing in faith with God.

This month, Candace gets candid on the topic of submission when a reader asks, “I was wondering if you could give me some tips on how to be a godly wife?” 

Few people imagine or anticipate their life being full of severe pain.  I’m referring to the kind of pain that follows you every moment, of every day, month after month, without an ending in sight. The type of pain that causes your life, as you once knew it, to cease altogether. The sort of pain that leaves you waking up every morning trying to figure out how to manage each moment so you can make it through the day, only to experience it all again… Read More