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My family was going through financial instability that had reached the point of crisis. My husband had passed on, and because this happened at a time when I was just beginning a new career helping others through prayer, I wasn't making much money yet.

The storm's landfall was imminent.   For days we had waited while Hurricane Fran took her course, and on this night in September 1996, her path was bearing down on the Carolinas where we lived.

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. DEUTERONOMY 33:27 Right now, right in the moment you're reading this, you are perfectly safe and secure—as safe and secure as you're ever going to be.

It Was the last day of school and the last day of grade one—for everyone but me, that is. After we had cleaned out our desks, the other children were escorted to see their new classrooms.

It Was a rather startling discovery for me. I was in my mid-thirties, happily married for over ten years, when I faced the fact that I allowed my imagination to constantly wander sexually.

One day during my sophomore year of college, my Sunday School teacher asked the class which of God's qualities we would most like to express more of in our lives. Fighting back tears, I said, "Purity.

As I Walked Home I looked at my report card: a double check in self-control. I couldn't believe it.

AS A LITTLE GIRL, I displayed a dogged insistence on having my own way just often enough for family members to refer to me smilingly as "stubborn" Barbara. It was a label I found most unattractive.

I COULDN'T TELL if she had plans to pick my pocket or to pick a fight. Or both.

WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS FOR YOUR LIFE? Many are perfectly happy with the way their lives are going, while others believe that they have been put in situations that offer little opportunity. Whether it comes from accident, heredity, disease, socioeconomic status, or what is perceived to be just plain bad luck, some may feel that what life offers is just insurmountable.