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Day 30: Freedom to Confess
By Morgan Davis Desert Stream Ministries Board Member ‘I realize I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide...
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Nov 11, 20212 min read


Day 29: Carrying His Cross
By Mike Nobrega Desert Stream Ministries Board Member I came to Desert Stream for help almost 30-years-ago: I was unable to break the...
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Nov 10, 20212 min read


Day 28: Carrying Her Cross
By Katie Comiskey Kansas City Living Waters Leader The Lord has met me in my brokenness in myriad ways: at His Cross, through His people,...
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Nov 9, 20212 min read


Day 26: Freedom and Her Self-Knowledge
By Abbey Foard DSM Executive Director Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created...

Abigail Foard
Nov 7, 20212 min read


Day 25: Freedom and Self-Knowledge (From a Man's Perspective)
‘If we do not see our own darkness, we cannot know the love and light of divine goodness.’ St. Catherine of Siena Annette often sees my...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 6, 20212 min read


Day 24: Freedom and Responsibility
By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He...

Marco Casanova
Nov 5, 20212 min read


Day 23: Deliverance from Evil
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 4, 20213 min read


Day 22: Wounds that Heal -- Invitation
By David Halliburton Member of the Living Waters National Council Sexual abuse led me to believe I needed to be secretive to survive....
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Nov 3, 20212 min read


Day 21: Wounds that Heal -- The Gift of Light
by Annette Comiskey DSM Director at Large ”For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son...

Annette Comiskey
Nov 2, 20212 min read


Day 16: Freedom for Emotion
‘…the power of deep feeling seems to serve me, only to deceive me.’ Joni Mitchell Emotions confirm our wonderful, conflictual humanity....

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 28, 20212 min read


Day 15: How Mary Loved
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Abigail Foard
Oct 27, 20213 min read


Day 11: Freedom from Lust, for True Desire (From a Man's Perspective)
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
Devon Basch
Oct 23, 20213 min read


Day 8: Rejoicing in the Body (From a Man's Perspective)
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Adam Pane
Oct 20, 20213 min read


Day 6: Freedom to Choose Love
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline Press...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 18, 20213 min read


Day 5: The Divider and Disintegration
‘The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy…’ (Jn. 10:10) Integration is wholeness, and God who created and redeems us, its...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 17, 20212 min read


Day 1: Freedom of the Gift
Every human being is a gift from God. Before we are born from natural descent, tossed and anchored by parental decisions and...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 13, 20213 min read


Battle Breaks Open
German Catholic bishops and lay persons voted last week to adopt a resolution (168 to 28) to bless same-sex relationships in the national...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 6, 20212 min read


How Deep Your Cross?
‘The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house; yet it did not fall, because it was founded on the...

Andrew Comiskey
Apr 2, 20213 min read


Holy Family Reboot
The Holy Family: Joseph, Mary and Jesus. Wow. As I reflect on this holy trio, I wonder: “How in the world could we ever imagine living a...
Dana Epperly
Dec 26, 20203 min read


Sexual (In)Justice: Day 35
‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20203 min read
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