Category Archives: Real People

Follow Me There

For those of you awesome readers who went to my new site www.realGodrealpeople.com and clicked the brown follow button in the bottom right hand corner, it didn’t work. I know it didn’t work because several told me they did it … Continue reading

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It’s time for a change

Everything changes.  The is true. Everything does change.  So it is with my blog.  You may have noticed for the last few months I’ve not been publishing much. It’s not because I don’t have anything to write about or that … Continue reading

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Does frustration equal success?

Frustration: the act of being frustrated. Frustrated: disappointed, thrwarted, dissatisfied. These definitions even frustrate me because they don’t really come near to the reality of the frustration I feel right now.  It is stress oozing out of every pore of … Continue reading

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Real People, Real God: Everyone has a story

Real people go through real struggles.  They live real lives.  Many live connected to a real God who guides them through those struggles. However,  others go through life defeated, depressed, sad, angry, addicted, powerless, disconnected, uninvolved, unloved, uncaring, unresponsive, unimaginative.  … Continue reading

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Santorum honored by Dobson for stance on family, moral issues

Republican presidential candidate hopeful Rick Santorum made it clear to the standing room only crowd at Columbia’s Grace Bible Church on Friday, Feb. 3 that he is not in favor of Barak Obama’s health care plan but is for the … Continue reading

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Serving Versus Fixing: Reaching Out Not Down

“We serve life not because it is broken but because it is holy.” –Mother Teresa. When I posted this as my status on Facebook today, I had to put a period after Teresa so Facebook would stop putting my name … Continue reading

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Two worlds

Loss. Frantic searching To see. Crying For help. No one knows. No one cares. Waves of Island Oceans. Bright blue sky. Endless white sand. Warmth. Comfort. Seclusion. Anxious Frustration. Fruitless Remembering Hopeless Finding Of meaninglessness. Peaceful Slumber. Thought-free Play In … Continue reading

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A worthy woman

Nolene Davis, Joplin Wholesaler of fashion jewelry When Nolene Davis was 15, her mother died. That and other traumatic events that happened in her life brought her to Freedom. “I didn’t realize how much her death had impacted me. It … Continue reading

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A whole woman, free of fear

Laurel Baumstark Emergency and family practice physician, Hermann Before Laurel Baumstark went to Freedom Seminar, she had invested a lot of years in education, learning about healing.  “I learned more in the seminar, than I did in several years of … Continue reading

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A free and fearless woman

Marilyn Stanaway Landscaper, Boonville Marilyn Stanaway says she went to Roots and Wings so her husband, a farmer, would go. During the seminar, though, she realized a personal tragedy that had happened years before had been affecting her every day. “My sister committed … Continue reading

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