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The Flourishing Family

Faith, Family, Health and Home

  • About
  • My Novel: Aliisa’s letter
  • Remembering Steven
  • Healthy Birth Practices
    • Preparing for Birth
    • Waiting for Labor to Start
    • Pelvic Measurement: Will the Baby Fit?
    • Emotional Support and Guidance During Labor
    • Is the Intervention Necessary?
    • Pushing Positions
    • Mom & Baby: Skin to Skin
    • A New Perspective: Home Birth
  • Family Health
    • Essential Oils
    • Colds Flu and Garlic
    • Calendula for a Healing Salve
    • Measles and the MMR
    • What about Vaccines?
    • Easing Painful Periods
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  • About
  • My Novel: Aliisa’s letter
  • Remembering Steven
  • Healthy Birth Practices
    • Preparing for Birth
    • Waiting for Labor to Start
    • Pelvic Measurement: Will the Baby Fit?
    • Emotional Support and Guidance During Labor
    • Is the Intervention Necessary?
    • Pushing Positions
    • Mom & Baby: Skin to Skin
    • A New Perspective: Home Birth
  • Family Health
    • Essential Oils
    • Colds Flu and Garlic
    • Calendula for a Healing Salve
    • Measles and the MMR
    • What about Vaccines?
    • Easing Painful Periods
  • Affiliate Links
  • Privacy Policy
  • One year Bible
    Faith - Family - Prayer

    Faith and Resilience in the New Year

    January 10, 2025 - By Carol

    In this new year, my husband and I have begun a plan to read through the Bible in one year. Reading through Genesis we have come across Enoch and Noah. The text informs that both men walked with God. The phrase has stuck in my thoughts. What does it mean…

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  • Loving the Children
    Children - Faith - Family - Health - Parenting - Prayer - Vaccines

    Loving the Children in 2025

    January 3, 2025 - By Carol

    John F. Kennedy once said, "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

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  • Bethlehem
    Faith - Prayer

    Long Ago: the Walls of Jerusalem

    December 13, 2024 - By Carol

    Israel has experienced times of close relationship with God and times when they rebelled and strayed, leading to exile. God was steadfast in his love for them and merciful. For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise…

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  • Christmas - Faith - Women

    The Wonder of Mary’s Experience

    December 6, 2024 - By Carol

    Each time I read the gospel of Luke, I see another detail in God's loving plan.

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  • Legend about the flight to Egypt
    Christmas - Faith - Family

    Musing on Mary’s Response

    November 29, 2024 - By Carol

    There is a legend about the virgin Mary and the rosemary bush. Her life took many twists and turns.

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  • Story
    Book Reviews - Faith - Family - Women - Writing

    Book Reviews: Katharine, the Wright Sister and A Treasury of the World’s Great Spiritual Letters

    November 22, 2024 - By Carol

    I have been enjoying this historical novel and Best Regards, a treasury of letters by well known people of faith.

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  • A flower and a prayer
    Faith - Flowers - Herbs - Nature - Prayer

    A Special Flower and a Prayer

    November 15, 2024 - By Carol

    We have the blessings of nature around us and we have the prayers of faithful people in the Bible.

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  • David's Prayer
    Faith - Prayer

    David’s Prayer

    November 8, 2024 - By Carol

    I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you. O LORD, the God of Abraham,…

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  • Prepared for the Unexpected
    Faith - Family - Prayer

    Prepared for the Unexpected

    November 1, 2024 - By Carol

    Are we prepared for the unexpected? We have the tools we need.

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  • Book Reviews - Faith

    When the Trees Sing

    October 11, 2024 - By Carol

    What if we became good listeners? We can learn and understand better.

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Welcome to my blog!

As I write, I give thanks for God’s design of the family and the gift of His word, the Bible.

It gives me joy to be a woman, a wife, a mother and grandmother. For many years I was a childbirth nurse, assisting mothers and their babies.

 

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My faith journey throughout Steven’s illness is included in this anthology

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