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Connection
Connection is a daily devotional to encourage women in their faith and life overseas. It brings the Word of God and conversation with sisters into their day-to-day lives.
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Trust Falls & Fallback Plans

July 10, 2026
RELIANCE Trust Reliance Dependence
I’m the worst at trust falls. Anyone with me? I’ve only done trust falls a handful of times, with people I trust, but it freaks. me. out. The “trusting someone” part doesn’t freak me out as much as the “losing all control” part does. I wish I coul...
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  • by CARISSA JOY STRUM
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Be Like Job?

July 09, 2026
RELIANCE Reliance Grief, loss, & depression Abide
Jesus describes the only way to “bear fruit.” It is to “remain” in Him. To remain is “to abide, to not depart, or continue to stay present.” It is a simple formula, but that does not make it easy. Job is an Old Testament example of abiding in the ...
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Can you carry this for me?

July 08, 2026
RELIANCE Trust
I’ve heard this countless times from my kids. Whether it’s the purse I told her she would not need at the park or the sunglasses he does not want to wear inside the mall, my kids don’t mind asking me to carry things they don’t want to carry. (I’ve...
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Anxiety, Humbleness and His Care

July 07, 2026
RELIANCE Fear
I knew that the nursing part of my brain was running in the wrong direction. As I lay in my dark room at 2 a.m., my body wanted sleep, but my thoughts kept hashing through every possible reason for my pain. Trying to settle, I made a conscious eff...
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