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How to Not Get Sucked into Your Kids’ Emotional Drama

by Heidi Petak CommunicationFamilyParenting

The other day, one of my friends asked me, "How do I not get sucked into my kids' emotional drama?" First, I'll say it's pretty easy to get sucked in. As their emotion starts to ramp up, we feel ours ramping up, too. And, before we know it, our ...

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Justin’s Cracker Barrel Commercial – The Rest of the Story

by Heidi Petak CommunicationLeadershipParenting

I thought about abandoning the audition and going home. We had already waited for an hour in a lobby full of other little boys outside a meeting room in the Nashville Hutton Hotel, and I had a crazy night ahead of me with 3 other boys' activities back in ...

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What Christmas is All About

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

  I'm done. Done rushing, done shopping, done stressing. I'm now taking deep breaths to remember what Christmas is all about. To rest in the beauty and grace of God. To read the story in Luke 2, to gaze at the manger, wonder at God's strange way to ...

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I Have a Dream

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

We have a dream he and I. He with his deep faith his four children his vision for peace. Me with my deep faith my four children my vision for peace. We have a dream he and I that one day one day we people we citizens we souls we souls who occupy our many- ...

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Kimberly Moore Communicates Legacy of Hope

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFaith

My phone rang the other night. It was my sister, Kimberly Moore. Her voice sparkled after having led another session of her study, Beauty in a Life Repurposed, at Exodus, the only organization in the state of Texas that provides a home for formerly incarc ...

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Warning: This 2-minute Parenting Film May Require Tissues

by Heidi Petak AgingCommunicationCommunity

Lights, Camera, Action! A few weeks ago, my two youngest boys were soooo sad to miss school for two whole days to star in a short film by the production company Seventh Story as a promo for an upcoming Lifeway parenting conference called "Etch." I got t ...

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Mother’s Day and the Danger of an Open-Door Policy

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFamily

Last year, one of my blog posts received over 3,000 hits.  I guess it hits a nerve for so many of us who wonder some days if we're making a difference.  So, here it is again, just in time for Mother's Day. Click on the white triangle in the audio bar be ...

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The #1 Key to Happy Relationships

by Heidi Petak CommunicationCommunityFamily

I looked at the time. 6:13. My husband said he would be home by 6:00. The baby was crying, the toddler was pulling all the Tupperware out of the cupboard, the pork chops were cold, and I was ready to clock out. The front door opened. I stayed in the kitc ...

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Holiday Surprise in a Duffle Bag

by Heidi Petak CommunicationFamilyGratitude

It's 9:30 at night.  Cold.  Snow on the ground.  We've driven 12 hours for this moment.  We turn our lights off, pull over to the side of the road and park.  Sneak down the street with a big, black duffle bag.  I realize we look quite suspicious, but I as ...

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Paris Tragedy Makes us Treasure our Friends

by Heidi Petak CommunityFaithFriendship

The recent tragedy in Paris and stories of those who lost their friends make me pause to savor life and the priceless gift of friendship. I hold my treasures close.  I know you do, too. Last weekend I visited Oregon where I had spent a few childhood ye ...

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