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Eileen Benthal

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Eileen is a writer, speaker and wellness coach with a bachelor’s degree in theology from Franciscan University. She and her husband Steve live in Jamesport and have four young adult children. Email Eileen
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Love letters from God

by Feb 10, 2013

No matter how angry you get at God, no matter how much you push Him away, the love letters keep coming.

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Love letters from God

by Feb 10, 2013

No matter how angry you get at God, no matter how much you push Him away, the love letters keep coming.

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Let go of it: Forgive, forget, be free

by Feb 3, 2013


Forgiveness is a vitally important part of a happy, healthy life. Recent studies on the effects of forgiveness on our health have confirmed that an inability to forgive causes excess stress hormones and depletes the immune system, leaving a person at risk for developing chronic and life-threatening diseases.

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Let go of it: Forgive, forget, be free

by Feb 3, 2013


Forgiveness is a vitally important part of a happy, healthy life. Recent studies on the effects of forgiveness on our health have confirmed that an inability to forgive causes excess stress hormones and depletes the immune system, leaving a person at risk for developing chronic and life-threatening diseases.

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Hoping to find a cure for daily seizures, decorated ROTC cadet undergoes brain surgery in NYC

by Feb 1, 2013

Riverhead High School senior and NJROTC cadet Anthony Mammina has had quite an amazing year.

One week after being awarded the Meritorious Achievement Award, the highest award a cadet can receive, for his life-saving actions at a track meet in September, Anthony was in the operating room at NYU Medical Center undergoing brain surgery, hoping to alleviate the seizures that have affected him since he was five years old.

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For everything, there is a season

by Jan 27, 2013

The poetic wisdom of Ecclesiastes reminds us that change is a part of life. God has made everything appropriate in its time, and there is a time, and a purpose, for every event under heaven. Life on Purpose by Eileen Benthal.

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For everything, there is a season

by Jan 27, 2013

The poetic wisdom of Ecclesiastes reminds us that change is a part of life. God has made everything appropriate in its time, and there is a time, and a purpose, for every event under heaven. Life on Purpose by Eileen Benthal.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle…redemption: A lesson from Rwanda

by Jan 20, 2013
This year, I have been trying to clear out clutter and organize my house. As I do this, the words reduce, recycle and reuse...
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Reduce, reuse, recycle…redemption: A lesson from Rwanda

by Jan 20, 2013

In a Rwandan woman's compelling story of survival against all odds, we witness how God recycled the pillage of genocide and reused it to heal human hearts.

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The things you do for love

by Jan 13, 2013
  Walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice...