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Guideposts: A military mom shares how she prays for her soldier.

A Military Mom’s Prayer for Her Soldier

Author and military mom Edie Melson shares how prayer got her through the stress of her son’s deployment. She ended up creating many of her own prayers and publishing them in a book, While My Soldier Serves.

7 tips for spiritual victory.

7 Tips for Finding Spiritual Victory

Military mom Edie Melson has learned a lot about spiritual victory from her former Marine son. As in the military, victory does not come by accident but by careful planning and following God’s path.

For military families, God is always near.

God Is Always Near

Military mom Edie Melson points out that God is always near–with the soldiers on patrol and their families left behind. It’s a lesson she learned when her own son was deployed in the Middle East.



3 positive filters for life.

3 Positive Filters for Life

Are you aware of how you tend to look at life, of what kind of filter you use to assess what’s going on around you? Your outlook, or filter, can render an event dreary or bright, positive or negative. Here are three useful filters you can apply to life.

Guideposts: Sometimes you just have to walk on faith.

A Military Mom Walks by Faith

As the mom of a Marine, I learned pretty early on that I was going to be doing a lot of water walking. And if I didn’t keep my eyes on Jesus, I was going to sink. Here are four other lessons I learned.

Guideposts: How to help your soldier weather PTSD.

Veterans and PTSD: Once Lost, Now Found

So many of our men and women in uniform experience PTSD to differing degrees. Part of helping a loved one cope with this disorder is the ability to give them the time and space they need to evaluate what they’ve been through.

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