Category: For Girls
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The Promises of God
“I promise!” Have you ever been told this? Imagine needing help with something pretty big, then your best friend promises to help you. Great, right? Imagine if it took her 4 days to help you. Depending on what you needed help with, that could be hard to wait that long.…
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Searching for Good Friendship
By: Catherine Blades Can I tell you a story? I want to tell you about a young girl who desperately sought a good friendship that would last. I’ll go ahead and spoil the surprise, this story is mine. Growing up I always noticed others and the close knit friends they…
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The God of Our Emotions
By: Hannah Goucher I’ve always been a very emotional person, even from a very young age. Watching sad movies or even Planet Earth always left me in tears. I often allowed my emotions to get the best of me. Fast forward to the present, and one can see the same…
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As Is Custom
By Claire Ryan School can be tough. It’s September; the days are becoming shorter, the nights longer, the weather is starting to cool, and school is in full swing. I remember being in middle and high school; I wanted to fit in, to be liked. I would do just about…
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A Students Prayer by Thomas of Aquinas
Creator of all things, the true source of light and wisdom, the origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a…
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10 Things to Help You Succeed in the New School Year
By: Anna Fox School is a big deal, but also not a big deal. It matters because this is the building blocks of developing your character, work ethic, and education. However, your time in school does not define your entire life. 2. You will add or replace friends as you…
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Through the Fog
By: Claire Ryan One morning, when I still lived with my grandparents, I woke up to a thick layer of fog. Pawpaw pointed outside. “You’ll need to be extra careful today.” He said I nodded and sat across from Pawpaw. Sometimes we’d sit quietly, sometimes we’d converse. But he always…
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Suicide Survivor
By: Sarah Sargent Suicide and self-harm are more than just a topic for a popular Netflix show. For this Shine blog, I decided to do a Q & A with a suicide attempt survivor. Because if statistics are right, you or at least one of your closest five friends has…
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