What do you think of when you hear sisterhood? Noisy marches with silly hats? Old-fashioned women with nothing more to do than sip tea in the afternoon? Maybe you think of the…
My Spiritual Life
One of my prized possessions from junior high is a stapled and taped together plastic sheath full of stubby colored pencils. We could barely afford those colored pencils, but Mom got them…
My Momma don’t like you …and she likes everyone And I never like to admit that I was wrong But I’ve been so caught up with my job Didn’t see what’s going…
You will never make it past the 8th grade! We think she is bipolar. Wow, Kyiva, I didn’t think you were gonna make it! All these things were said about me or…
I was not allowed to be disappointed when I was a kid. In my family we always had to “look on the bright side” and be positive. Maybe it was because my…
Good Friday is the day each year when Christians remember the death of Jesus on the cross. Until I was 18 years old, I did not understand the grief that His death…
Reach UP magazine’s cover art for this issue, Count It All Joy, is a mixed media painting created by Sally Barlow. Sally is visual artist (https://www.sallybarlowart.com), wife to her college sweetheart and…
From time to time, we get articles from women who want to encourage otherswith their story of struggle and recovery. ‘Hope you are encouraged by Jen’sstory. When I heard about the Hoving…
Part 1 Nothing new under the sun, Solomon wrote. Seventy-seven years ago, first love, first date . . . alcohol. She said no, he said yes. She resisted, he insisted. She got…
Christian recording artist Debra Price used to struggle with low self-esteem. Hear how God helped her and the song that God dropped in her heart, called Masterpiece. For we are His workmanship…
