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Meet Paige: Author, Illustrator, Speaker

Meet Paige: Author, Illustrator, Speaker

What does it take to write a book? What are the characteristics you think would be of utmost importance? What about illustrating a book? If you’re like me, your answers may fall along the lines of being focused, intelligent, passionate, well-read, and computer literate. For illustrating, you might...

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Page 42 – Breaking Barriers and Building Strength

Page 42 – Breaking Barriers and Building Strength

“Wake up.” “Seven.” “Page Down.” “Four.” “Go to sleep.” This sequence, or one very similar, is a familiar sound in our Page 42 Writers’ Critique Group. Some of our members use voice activated software to write. When it is one of their turns to share their critique, they first have to wake up their...

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2023 Is Off To a Great Start!

2023 Is Off To a Great Start!

Did you set any New Year’s goals? We did. As 2022 drew to a close, our team reflected on the year, prayed and wrote out the plans/goals we believe God is asking us to focus on in 2023. Here’s an overview of them. We’d love your feedback! Communication Write and post 22 blog entries. Publish Joan’s...

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Labor Day for Caregivers

Labor Day for Caregivers

Most of us think about Labor Day as a day for eating hot dogs and hamburgers, getting that last taste of fresh farm stand produce, and signifying the beginning-of-the end of summer. Where I grew up in Maryland, it also represented the last day of childhood freedom before the new school year began....

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Fragile Not Broken

Fragile Not Broken

July is Fragile X Awareness Month. Luke 14 Exchange is grateful to Jessie Olivio Dougherty for writing and sharing this part of her family's story with us.  When we first began our family almost 17 years ago, we had never heard of Fragile X Syndrome.* It wasn't until our third son was born that...

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Meet Rachel: Living on Mission

Meet Rachel: Living on Mission

If you talk with Rachel Petri, you are going to hear the phrase "living on mission" often. Since it is such a powerful concept to this young woman, I wanted to explore what that means to her, and how she arrived at this place as a not quite 20-something person. Rachel describes her own story as...

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Meet Lyla: Rachael’s Mom

Meet Lyla: Rachael’s Mom

Written by Lyla Swafford, author of It Takes More Than Legs to Stand. Her memoir is available on Amazon or you connect with when you follow her blog. My daughter came as an unexpected gift. As a woman with cerebral palsy, people didn’t think I could birth or raise a child. So I never dreamed of...

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My Brother, Zach

My Brother, Zach

My Brother, Zach           Hello all, it is Joshua Helms bringing you another article. The wonderful people at Luke 14 Exchange have asked me to write a piece about World Autism Awareness Month, which is very near and dear to me on a personal level. I do not think I would be sitting here without...

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