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Cheryl Shumake
- Sep 18
- 4 min
It's Not Easy Being Green
Jealousy is more than insecurity. It's an infection that eats you from the inside out.
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Cheryl Chenault-Shumake
- Apr 24
- 5 min
What Your (Step)Kids Want You To Know, But Won’t Tell You.
A lot of that tension exists because of the gap between intention and perception.
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Cheryl Chenault-Shumake
- Apr 22
- 3 min
Change Your Tune
“Lord, I appreciate Your word but I’m not sure how this relates to what I asked. What are You trying to tell me?” I closed my bible...
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Cheryl Chenault-Shumake
- Apr 19
- 6 min
Blendedly Blessed
Nothing is beyond His power to use for His glory and our good. Including our stepfamily relationships.
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Cheryl Chenault-Shumake
- Apr 14
- 4 min
Stirred… Not Shaken
YOU’RE NOT CRAZY! It’s not all in your head. It is much harder than you ever could have imagined.
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Cheryl Chenault-Shumake
- Apr 11
- 5 min
Surviving Success
For every 50 believers in Christ who overcome adversity there’s only one who overcomes Success.
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Cheryl Chenault-Shumake
- Apr 8
- 3 min
Riding the Wave: Finding Peace When Life See-Saws
When you’re a person a lot of people turn to, you can sometimes feel like you have no place to go.
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