Grace Based Parenting by Tim Kimmell
Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna

It had been a long couple of days. I was at least two weeks overdue with our second child. It was one week before Christmas (the baby was due December 3rd. It was now December 18th). Darryl and I were pioneering a church in Spirit Lake, Idaho, about 45 minutes away from the hospital in which I was scheduled to deliver. It was cold, foggy and snowy. My pains had begun off and on from Friday around noon. It was now 7:15 p.m. on Saturday. The resident doctor wandered in and out after deciding yes, I was in “early” labor as he put it—about 3 cm’s.

The last issue of Real Women encouraged a time of “spring cleaning” in our heart. It revealed that taking the time to deep clean those recesses of our heart, (those areas where in the busyness of life, seeds of resentment, hurt, or disappointments have a tendency to accumulate) allows space for good seeds to grow.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you,

February is National Celebrate Marriage month. Here is one idea for marriage enrichment that Jennifer Adkisson, Mrs. Washington, sent to Kathy Norquist, who thought it would be a great idea for all Real Women Readers!

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Old friends, new friends. Always room for one more! When I was a young girl I belonged to Brownies. We had to learn the “Brownie song”. “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold”. Old friends are wonderful. Old friends bring the treasure of shared memories and history together, the “remember when” type of memories. New friends are wonderful. They are part of the “unknown”. What will develop? What has God in store for this relationship? They are a treasure buried treasure waiting to be discovered.

As in all things, we need to pattern our understanding of friendship on the Word of God. In this second installment of “friendship matters” we must understand that this teaching is to help us consider our own friendship skills, not to use it to rate others friendship levels to us!

Real Women in PDF Format: If you would like to read or download a copy of Real Women in it's
orignal PDF file please choose the issue from the list of attached files at the bottom of this page. You will need to login or register as a user to access to these files. You can still read the separate articles on line as well.

Suggestions for following ministry articles that span more than one issue:

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1. When it comes to filing systems, there are no hard and fast rules. Be flexible. Develop a system that accommodates your own requirements.
2. As you design your filing system, it might help to adopt this phrase as your mantra: "Keep it simple"!
3. Computer disks or labels are identified more easily and quickly when you color-code them.
4. Color-code your files. Assign different subjects their own color. This will make it easier to find what you're after. Don't let this system become cumbersome: as a rule, the fewer the colors the better.