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Guideposts is a monthly inspirational, interfaith, non profit magazine written by people from all walks of life. Its articles help readers achieve their maximum personal and spiritual potential.

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Ineffable Grace
For this issue, I was asked to contribute an Up Side quote from my new book, A Journey of Faith. I submitted a short passage that started, “God’s love is ineffable.” “You can’t use the word ineffable,” I was told. It was already taken. I needed anoth
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“The Up Side®
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Spirit Lifting
My husband, Jerry, and I had built wonderful Christmas traditions over the long course of our marriage. But after Jerry’s diagnosis of Lewy body dementia, many things changed, including our annual trip to the tree farm to cut down our own Christmas t
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Answered Prayers
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Someone Cares
Like to crochet? Want to spread happiness in your community? Join Random Acts of Crochet Kind-ness USA! We’re a group of crafters who crochet cute, small items and leave them in public to be found. We crochet animals, angels, flowers—really anything
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After the Storm
Early in the morning on September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm with winds up to 155 miles per hour, made landfall on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. The storm cut a destructive path across the entire island. It flattened buildings,
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Living With Joy and Confidence
For years, I thought my family name was my destiny. Hemingway. Hear that and you probably think of my grandfather Ernest, one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Or of my sister Margaux and me, the actresses. I made my movie debut at age 1
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The Accidental Matriarch
When my husband, Don, and I got married, I made it clear that I did not want kids. “I don’t feel like I’d be a good mom,” I told Don. Don, who was nine years older and already had two children from a previous marriage, didn’t mind. He understood wher
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A Preview From Walking in Grace 2024
This morning, I jumped on my bike and pedaled down the road. It’s a route I’ve traveled hundreds of times since I was young. As I coasted down Jenny’s Hill, named after the woman who lived there some 40 years ago, I took my feet off the pedals and st
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His Choice, Not Mine
For the first two decades of my marriage, I was what you might call a church widow. I sat in the pews alone every Sunday because my husband, Mark, refused to come with me. Mark was a believer. He was raised in church and insisted that our kids go. Ye
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The Christmas Connection
I was checking out a homemade ornament on my daughter-in-law Rachel’s Christmas tree when I felt a tug on my jeans. My granddaughter, Madelyn, held out her favorite picture book. We settled onto the couch to read the book for the third time since bre
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Mysterious Ways
My father had passed away in January 1987, and my mother followed the first week of December. No matter how determined I was to make a good Christmas that year for my husband, Jack, and our son, Jackie, the truth was I was only going through the moti
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EVERYDAY GREATNESS Mandy Niles
WHO SHE IS For the past decade, Mandy Niles has served as her Texas neighborhood’s “chief elf” on St. Nicholas Day. The traditional Advent feast day occurs each December 6 and honors the fourth-century bishop of Myra (a town on the Mediterranean coas
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Leave As A Pilgrim
Entrez en visiteur, repartez en pèlerin. (“Enter as a visitor, leave as a pilgrim.”) Those words are etched into a plaque on the wall of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the city of Le Puy-en-Velay, in southern France. I read them as I stepped inside t
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That Little Light
Normally I would be sound asleep at 2:30 A.M., but with Christmas just days away and my husband off on a business trip, I wanted to get all my presents for out-of-town family ready for the post office. It was just me and my dog, Rowdy, at home in our
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Two Sisters, One Dream
Saturday, February 26, 2022. It was 10 minutes before the grand opening of our bakery in DeSoto, Texas—Two Sisters Sweet Creations. The moment my sister, Yolanda, and I had worked toward for the past year was finally here. I looked at Yolanda in amaz
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Serenade At Sunrise
I had never been more homesick or stressed than that Christmas in 1981, the year my husband, Charles, and I pulled up stakes and moved to the Texas badlands to work in the vast oil fields of the pan-handle. We were thousands of miles away from home f
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What Prayer Can Do®
I take my holiday preparations seriously. Well before Christmas, before Thanksgiving even, I start getting my house in order. I wash the curtains and shampoo the carpets. I even touch up any spots where the paint needs brightening. You might be surpr
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The Parrots of January
The seventh of January, and already the excitement of starting a new year had faded. All that seemed to remain of Christmas? A brittle, dried-up balsam tree in a corner of my living room. I took down the ornaments, unraveled the strings of lights and
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His Last Gift
I’d driven the winding mountain road from my home in Frederick, Maryland, upstate to Cumberland hundreds of times but never with such a burden on my heart. On that frosty January morning three years ago, even the familiar landscape seemed foreboding.
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The Home Team
I lugged a basket of freshly laundered clothes through the living room one Sunday night at the end of December 2019. Matt, my husband, didn’t even spare me a glance. He leaned forward on the couch, eyes glued to the NFL game on the television. “Yes!
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Continued
Thank you for including an Up Side quote from saxophonist Charles Lloyd in your Feb/Mar 2023 issue. Mr. Lloyd was one of my uncle Larry’s favorite jazz musicians. He saw Mr. Lloyd perform live many times beginning in the late 1960s. In the 1990s, I w
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Talk Of The Town
Plenty of mystery surrounds Brooklyn’s monk parrots, and there is no shortage of theories. After my encounter I had to learn more. I visited brooklynparrots.com, a website dedicated to documenting the birds. It’s run by Steve Baldwin, a writer and Br
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Family Room®
In the year since Deidra Keener (Two Sisters, One Dream, page 46) and her sister, Yolanda Bledsoe, opened their bakery, Two Sisters Sweet Creations, connecting with and giving back to their DeSoto, Texas, community have remained central to what they

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