Category: Miracles
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Family of The Month – Part VII
Learning to Graciously Receive: Our house was destroyed by a tornado in May of 2003. We lost everything but the clothes we were wearing. The outpouring of support from our friends, church family and the community was stunning. We never knew so many people would come together as they did to help us get through… Read more
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J.P. Lane – Purple Heart Recipient
Story by Justin Lane. JP is a double-amputee that was blown up by a 200lb IED in Afghanistan while on a route clearance mission. After losing both his legs and going through more than 25 surgeries, and so much more, JP decided he could use his story, perseverance, faith and never-give-up mindset to inspire and… Read more
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The Big C – what do you do?
Story by Laurie Grathen I’ve heard that we all have cancer in our bodies. After all, the definition of cancer is simply abnormal cells dividing out of control. Whether or not that’s a “Problem” is how fast that’s happening, where it is in the body, and what those cells do as they’re multiplying. We don’t… Read more
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Family of The Month – Part VI
You Can’t Buy It… How many of you remember Blimpie Subs? They were, hands-down, the best sub-shop anywhere long before Subway rolled into town. I’ve already written several stories about many of the things that happened to Laurie and me following the F-4 tornado that destroyed our house while we were in it. I keep… Read more
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Family of The Month – Part V
Can’t Work on Sundays – time to rebuild. Laurie and I met Mike when we moved to the Lake of the Ozarks in October 1998. The one and only time Mike ran a Handyman for Hire ad in the local newspaper, the owner of the house we were renting hired Mike to do some repair… Read more
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RedBull Gives You Wings!
I should have drunk one before I went to work that day. The doctor looked at my MRI and said I should be dead. He didn’t say why. Others in the hospital kept telling me the same thing, but they never said why. Laurie & I started a pressure washing business at the Lake of… Read more
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FAITH OVER FEAR
Woke up suddenly… Wide awake… it is after 1:30 a.m. April 28th 2022. I normally don’t wake up like this… I usually sleep soundly until 5-5:30. As I lay there the thought hit my mind that it was one year ago yesterday that the love of my life of 48 years had her surgery for… Read more
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Family of The Month – Part Four
God’s Perfect Timing: When the people who took us in the night of the storm; (read about them in part III here in “We Know Where Our Treasures Lie”) brought us back to the house the next morning, it was the first time we saw it in broad day light. When Laurie looked around at… Read more
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Family of The Month – Part Three
We Know Where Our Treasures Lie: In May of 2003 in Camdenton, Missouri my wife Laurie and I survived a tornado that destroyed our home while we were in it. That “tragedy” was the catalyst to discovering so many amazing and wonderful lessons about life and relationships. To read “Family of the Month” – part… Read more
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Family of the Month – Part Two
When I came home from work each night, I put my wallet and car keys in a drawer of our China cabinet as I came in from the garage. Likewise, Laurie put her purse on a little table next to the door. When the tornado hit, the door, the garage, the China cabinet, and the… Read more
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