Hope in a God-Centered Life
If we could know how long we have to live, would it change the waywe live? I’m fifty-four. If I could be guaranteed to live to eighty or...
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dawsonchrisann
Feb 6, 20202 min read
Hope: Alone But Never Alone
If you feel alone, apparently you are not alone in this feeling. Many Americans feel this way as well. A whopping forty-six percent of...
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dawsonchrisann
Jan 29, 20202 min read
Hope for Social Media Conflict
Am I a Christian? Am I a child of God and a believer in Jesus? Am I a Christian twenty-four, seven? A child of God and a believer...
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dawsonchrisann
Jan 22, 20202 min read
Hope in a Living Hope
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively (living)...
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dawsonchrisann
Jan 16, 20202 min read
Hope in a Variety of Friends
I LOVE my friends! Here in my Arizona mountain town, I have acquired a team of faithful, solid, sensitive, and intelligent friends. Back...
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dawsonchrisann
Jan 1, 20203 min read
Hope in a New Future
Don’t you just love the fresh opportunities of a new year? Me too! Often, the whole last week of December, I set up my new journal for...
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dawsonchrisann
Dec 25, 20192 min read
Hope in Good Will Towards
Nearly everyone, even those unchurched are familiar with Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth in his gospel. After the angel announced to the...
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dawsonchrisann
Dec 19, 20193 min read
Hope in Our Children
Our children are a blessing: literally an heirloom given to us by God Himself. As I’m contemplating my son coming home tonight for twenty...
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dawsonchrisann
Dec 13, 20193 min read
Hope in Faithful Love: 28 Years
On December 14, 1991, I, Chrisann Baker, married Gale Dawson. It was a beautiful Christmas wedding, complete with Christmas trees...
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dawsonchrisann
Dec 5, 20193 min read
Hope in the Loneliest Place: The Mind
Hope in the Loneliest Place: The Mind Is it possible for the mind to be the loneliest place on the planet? How about the loneliness of a...
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dawsonchrisann
Nov 27, 20192 min read
Hope Through Gratitude
“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore, my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song...
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dawsonchrisann
Nov 13, 20193 min read
Hope in Loss: Deprivation, Sacrifice, & Change
Everyone experiences loss: the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship as in divorce or the choices of a wayward child, the loss...
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dawsonchrisann
Oct 30, 20193 min read
Hope in Conflict
Shakespeare aptly stated the two basic ways to deal with conflict in his famous quote: “To be or not to be…that is the question: Whether...
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dawsonchrisann
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Hope During Physical Illness
The whole spectrum of physical illness from the common flu to a hopeless cancer diagnosis can be debilitating and depressing. Fighting...
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dawsonchrisann
Oct 16, 20192 min read
Hope in the Life to Come
C.S. Lewis once said, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that...
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dawsonchrisann
Oct 10, 20192 min read
Hope Through Ministry Hardships: Mango Maggots
Do you know what a mango maggot or bort fly is? Yep! Neither did my husband nor I, until December of 1994. As new missionaries in Congo...
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dawsonchrisann
Oct 2, 20192 min read
Hope for Courage and Strength
Courage and strength are two qualities that seem to be in short supply among the general population in today’s society. Many express...
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dawsonchrisann
Sep 18, 20192 min read
Hope in Ministry
“Why would someone need hope working in full-time ministry?” you may ask. “Isn’t ministry life all roses and rainbows?” People who’ve...
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dawsonchrisann
Sep 11, 20192 min read
Hope in Pain
“Pain is weakness leaving the body” is a very popular workout motto, but is this true in the other facets beyond that of exercise and...
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dawsonchrisann
Sep 5, 20192 min read
Hope in the Workplace.
What I do is merely an extension of who I am. All my adult life I’ve been a classroom teacher, focusing mainly on high school grammar and...
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