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Stretching Exercises for the Heart

Stretching Exercises for the Heart

By Marty Walden · Leave a Comment

Recently I’ve been learning how to stretch in many different ways. In the foods that will keep me healthy. In stretching exercises for the body that will keep me active for my grandson Aiden and (hopefully) many more to come. In the challenges of juggling work and life at home after concentrating on my family for over 20 years. As… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday Tagged With: health, healthy, over 50

No Longer a Slave to Fear

No Longer a Slave to Fear

By Marty Walden · 5 Comments

We have just concluded 21 days of prayer and fasting with our church (Daystar Church) and it has been both a wonderful and challenging experience. The goal of this period is for our church family to refocus our attention on God and His purpose for us as a church and as individuals without earthly distractions. As best I could I gave up sugar,… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, music, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday Tagged With: Family, music, photography, Simple Gift Sunday, youtube

No Fake Happy Face, Just My Usual Transparency

No Fake Happy Face, Just My Usual Transparency

By Marty Walden · 13 Comments

As Christians we sometimes paste on a happy face and gloss over our wounds and struggles. After all, we’re supposed to have it all together, aren’t we? If we don’t have the answers then who does? I don’t know about anyone else, but I certainly don’t. I hurt. I cry. I ask the Comforter to intercede when I can’t even form… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Simple Gift Sunday Tagged With: Faith, inspirational, Simple Gift Sunday

Are You Listening to the Lies and Negative Thoughts?

Are You Listening to the Lies and Negative Thoughts?

By Marty Walden · 3 Comments

As I have lived life 24/7 with my adopted children over the last 15 years I have learned how their early wounds affect their thinking. Many years of therapy and prayer have helped me confront the undesirable messages from my own life. I realize how negative thoughts affect relationships of all kinds. What I believe about myself is EVERYTHING. Whether from messages implanted on my… Read More

Filed Under: faith, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday, worship, youtube Tagged With: adoption, Faith, Video, worship, youtube

I Am Not Alone….and Neither Are You!

I Am Not Alone….and Neither Are You!

By Marty Walden · 3 Comments

 One of the hardest parts of my brother-in-law’s recent death has been knowing the grief that my precious sister-in-law and her girls are suffering through. Yet I’m always reminded that none of this surprises God or catches Him unaware. I have heard the worship song I Am Not Alone by Kari Jobe several times recently and the message is one I pray… Read More

Filed Under: faith, Grief, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday, worship, youtube

Easter Blessings Through the Years

Easter Blessings Through the Years

By Marty Walden · 2 Comments

  Easter has always been an important family holiday for  us, a time to gather together for a meal and share a common faith. Our family has changed immensely over the years. From a family of four to a family of seven overnight.    Years of Easter baskets, worship music and family pictures on the front lawn. Time spent with loved ones mark… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday, worship Tagged With: Easter, Faith, Family, worship, youtube

The Day I Fell in Love With my Pregnancy Stretch Marks

The Day I Fell in Love With my Pregnancy Stretch Marks

By Marty Walden · 3 Comments

Thank you to my daughter Rachel for sharing a precious reminder of the beauty of motherhood with “The Day I Fell in Love With my Pregnancy Stretch Marks.”    When I became pregnant with our son, Aiden, I was the heaviest I had ever been. I knew it would help to lose a few pounds but my husband thought I was sexy… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Motherhood, parenting adult children, Simple Gift Sunday Tagged With: Faith, Family, motherhood, new mom, Parenting

When a Heart Breaks

When a Heart Breaks

By Marty Walden · 24 Comments

There are joyous seasons in life, days filled with sweetness and precious memories, almost to the point of taking my breath away. Then the seasons of grief arrive, days filled with inconsolable heartbreak, crushing the wind from my lungs. Blessedly I’ve known both seasons and every one in between. Ordinary days full of diapers and messes, schoolwork and piano lessons, basketball games… Read More

Filed Under: faith, family, Grief, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday

What Makes a Good Marriage? Being Broken Together

What Makes a Good Marriage? Being Broken Together

By Marty Walden · 9 Comments

What makes a good marriage? Here’s a poignant story of years of brokenness and being remade through faith in Christ. Today is my 28th wedding anniversary. 28 years. Almost three decades of living life together. Fights. Makeups. Morning breath. Childbirth. Just ordinary lives lived through extraordinary stories. I wish we had an inkling of what we were getting into when… Read More

Filed Under: faith, marriage, music, Simple Gift Sunday, Simple Gift Sunday, Valentine's Anniversary, Valentine's Day Tagged With: anniversary, Faith, marriage, Simple Gift Sunday, Valentine's Day, worship

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