Life is full of Plan Bs. But with God’s help and His blessing, your foiled plans can be turned into God’s ultimate plan for you.
In the following reading of Her Last Christmas (from In Praise of Plan B), Tim Kimmel tells a story of a woman that chose to accept God’s Plan B for her life.
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There were six of us kids sitting around the Christmas tree that year; All eager and expectant of what might be beneath the bright wrapping paper. Our parents looked tired. But then again, they always looked that way those days. Now that I’m a parent, I know that it wasn’t just a look, it was reality. They were in the heavy lifting stages of raising a family and making a living.
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 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
Titus 2:11
May God fill your home with His amazing grace and abiding peace this coming year.
- The Kimmel Family
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Many families will face another slim holiday this year. Savings and retirement accounts languish as the Dow ping pongs from new lows to sporadic highs. Unemployment stares down a generation used to earning its keep but must now reinvent itself to be employable.
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With Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner we thought we’d highlight a couple of our favorite Family Matters Holiday (web) resources.
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 At this stage of your life, you envisioned yourself exchanging a time clock for a tee time, having a spotless home to relax and entertain in, and taking a well deserved break from the years of raising a family and earning a living. Instead, you find yourself back at square one: homework, soccer practice, discipline, early mornings and late nights.
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 The tremendous grace that God has bestowed upon us must be the lens through which we view all of our relationships. The Family Matters Minute will help you create an atmosphere of grace in your home which will permeate all areas of your life.
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God knew what He was doing when He hardwired our hearts to need relationships. We see this in Adam’s need for companionship, Jesus’ ministry with the 12 disciples, and Paul’s many mission trips across the early church. The Old and New Testaments are packed with illustrations of how God accomplished mighty things when two or more came together in His name.
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