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To help families keep Christ at the center of Christmas, 25 Days 'Til Christ includes short readings, Bible verses, and activities to do together. We meet the people who witnessed Christ's birth and share the adventure. We take a few moments every day, for 25 days,to remind ourselves of the reason it is called Christ-mas. We celebrate the greatest birth mankind has ever known.

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Paula Whidden is a board certified life coach and author who has been writing for almost a decade. She went from pastoring teens and children to staying at home with her own two amazing girls and found the joys of communicating with the written word. 

As a life coach, Paula has worked with over a hundred couples. She coaches them on communication skills, conflict resolution, finance, romance and more to help them build the marriage they will enjoy for a lifetime. She coaches couples one-on-one in their homes or via the internet across the United States. 

She began writing as a blogger and eventually wrote her first book, 25 Days 'Til Christ, to help families enjoy and better understand the real meaning Christmas. From there, she wrote Couple Corners: 52 Faithful Choices for a More Joy-Filled Marriage which was a top ten finalist in the Women of Faith book contest. Paula's book Cheap Dates for Classy Couples came as an expression of her love of all things cheap yet beautiful. Every date has been tried and tested by Paula and Tim and many of their friends. Finally, Paula wrote her most recent book, Dating Tips from a Wolf, to help ladies who kept looking for love in all the wrong places. It's the true story of how God taught Paula how to date using an unlikely helper.

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(http://www.FaithfulChoices.com )Friendships go through seasons and though a friend may be great at one time, in a different season it may be time to let go of the past.  Time to end the friendship.

When to end a friendship/insights on Christian living (by Paula Whidden)English transcript
Hi, I'm Paula Whidden,and I write for FaithfulChoices.com. And I've got a faithful choice for you today.  It has to do with friendships, you know the kind that maybe need to go. See, this is my garden.  My garden looks like it's growing pretty good. But, it's not all that it seems.  See, these big things to my sides are tomato plants.  And tomatoes grow great and wonderful in the summer, but this isn't the summer anymore. It's starting to get cold and they are going to die.  
How do I know? I've done this before.  Some years I've tried to let them grow. I've tried really hard to keep them growing and feed them and care for them.  And yet they die, because they have their season, they have a right time to grow.
(1:01)And in our friendships, some of them are dying. Some of 'em have lived through their season and it's time to uproot so as to make space for other friendships and that is a tough, tough thing to think about.  But, I'm learning, in gardening, you've got to do the tough things.  You gotta be willing to get rid of the old to make way for the new.
(1:34)So, you can choose to be proactive in friendships.  You can choose to get rid of the old and make way for the new.  And who knows, maybe you'll find something that's been there all along. It just needs a little more care too.
(1:50)So, are you wondering when I was going to talk with you about the Bible? I'm ready.  The Bible tells us that there's a time and purpose for everything under heaven. In Ecclesiastes 3, it says "there is a time to plant and a time...to uproot."
(2:13)Ah, come out of there you!  It's time to uproot! Ah, woo, ha ha.  Okay then.
(2:29)In our friendships, sometimes we're planting and sometimes we're uprooting, so we can make way for the new.
(2:41)And I gotta tell you something.  Hidden under all those where some pretty plants.  I've got some dill and some rosemary.  Those last a long time (2:51).  They don't just go one season. But they couldn't really see the light of day under those tomatoes.  You may discover, when you uproot the old, there was someone waiting there all along, just waiting to shine (3:03).
(3:03)By the way, this garden isn't done.  It's not ready for planting yet.  A lot more has to go into it. That's something for another video, until then, come by and check out www.FaithfulChoices.com and read more about faithful choices you can make because courageous people want their choices to reflect their faith. (whistling)


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When to end a friendship/insights on Christian living (by Paula Whidden)

Paula Whidden (http://www.FaithfulChoices.com) made this presentation at Real Life Church on Christmas Day, 2011.

Have you ever seen an amazing sunrise and realized what a change a little light makes?  I did.  One summer in Hawaii, my husband and I visited the dormant volcano Haleakala and watched the sunrise over the clouds.  It made me realize what it must have been like when God said, "Let there be light."  Everything changed in an instant.  

Jesus is called "The Light of the World." When we welcome Him into our lives, everything changes.

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