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Do you need some courage right now in your life? Maybe just to get out of bed? Or to go to work? Or to come home from work? As children of God, we get to rely on him to give us this strength – we also get a home advantage: other people who come alongside and say to us on a regular basis: Courage, Dear Heart!

Lois encourages us to pray and focus on God’s sovereignty when needing courage and hope, no matter what’s happening in our lives.

I’m happy to introduce you to my friend and fellow writer, Lois Flowers who wants to say to you today, “Courage, dear heart!

Lois is a mom to two young adult daughters and wife to one good man. She’s an author, editor and lifelong Midwesterner who values authenticity, loves gardening and is unapologetically addicted to "The Great British Bake Off." She writes often about the pain and loss of losing one's parents. 

Get her free resource that will be your own version of gaining courage:

A 7-day devotional called Faith, Fear, and the God Who Goes Before Us.

Some gems from our conversation:

• I've learned that God knits our families together in the most miraculous ways as we wait on him.
• I hope to leave a legacy of someone whose life was marked and driven by prayer. 
• I tell my stories so that others can be encouraged by seeing themselves in some small way and be strengthened by God in the same way that he's strengthened me. 
• I'm not a patient person but I've learned to hold things loosely while in God's waiting room. 
• I've always typed my prayers to help me focus (and because I have terrible handwriting.)
• Everything is fair game when I'm praying but I wait best when I end each prayer with, "Thy will be done."
• God's plans and purpose are not always clear to me but Psalm 139:16b helps me trust him in the meantime: "all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

Courage, dear heart! Love, Lois (and Sue!)