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What Is Love?

By Elizabeth Cottrell

What is Love?

In that strange time just before waking up this morning, Valentine’s Day, I had the thought that LOVE is so vast and so immense it is impossible to define except in glimpses, whispers, and special interactions. There are so many articles about love published around this time of year, and clearly love is so much […]

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My New Year’s Message: Open Your Heart And Mind

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Winding Road and Tunnel in Smokey Mountains

I’m bringing this back from its original publication on this blog in 2015. Its message is timeless and it still expresses my deepest wish for you in the year ahead. And remember, every single day is a new beginning, even if you’re reading this in July. Forget the New Year’s resolutions At least for today… […]

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A New Year…A New Beginning

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Happy New Year

We can’t go back, but we can begin again. We can’t undo our mistakes, but we can learn from them. Forget getting back to normal or “new normal.” Who decides that anyway? Only you. If we’re honest, we don’t really want everything to stay the same. Change is an essential part of growth.  Holy Scripture—as […]

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Here’s What It Means to Leave the Corporate World to Work for Yourself

By Sue Painter

Work for yourself by Sue Painter

NOTE FROM ELIZABETH: Every Heartspoken Life is unique, and it has been my honor to meet many smart, interesting, caring, generous women and men through my online activities who exemplify the Heartspoken Life in their own way. Today’s guest, Sue Painter, is one of them. She and I are among those folks who have had […]

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8 Ways To Get Past Feeling Misunderstood

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Get Past Feeling Misunderstood

 “What we have here is failure to communicate!” The famous movie line from Cool Hand Luke was spoken facetiously by the Captain, a prison warden, to Luke, the young prisoner played by Paul Newman. Perhaps one of the reasons it has stayed so deeply ingrained in our cultural lore is because the failure to communicate is […]

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We’re All In This Together

By Elizabeth Cottrell

We're All In This Together

My writing friend Joy Newswanger dislikes the term “social distancing,” and I agree with her. What we’re doing to protect ourselves and our communities is physical distancing, not social distancing. In some ways, we’re connecting socially more than ever before. John and I are trying to call or email or write friends and family to […]

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How to Distinguish God’s Voice from Satan’s Lies

By Elizabeth Cottrell

God's Voice, Satan's Lies - Armor of God

An age-old question One of my Heartspoken readers recently sent an important and challenging question:  Hi, thanks for God’s work here. My question is how do you differentiate between God’s warning and Satan’s warning? And how do you feel it when it’s God’s warning or how do you feel it when it’s Satan’s threatening? Thank […]

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Top 5 Reasons to Write a Thank-you Note (You might be surprised)

By Elizabeth Cottrell

5 Reasons To Write A Thank-You Note

Turn obligation to opportunity I’m not going to tell you WHEN to write a thank-you note. You can find that information anywhere. Today I want you to think about WHY you might write a thank you note. As Simon Sinek reminds us in his wildly popular TED talk, the most significant things in our life […]

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Elizabeth Cottrell, aka RiverwoodWriter

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I am a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and blogger called to encourage readers to strengthen the bonds of faith, family, and friends and to cultivate the joy and impact of personal, handwritten notes and letters. More Info.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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