I’m excited to be interviewing the lovely Mary Carver today, co-author of Choose Joy: Finding Hope and Purpose When Life Hurts. Choose Joy is an encouragement and challenge to live full and whole, even in less than ideal circumstances. Sara lived with excruciating pain yet she chose to go on…
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I am a romantic. I dreamed of my Mr. Right for years and years before I actually met him. I wasn’t sure what our love story would look like, but I was surprised at how natural it felt when the time was right. A little backstory first: I was in…
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Parenting a tween is not for the faint of heart. I always assumed I’d be a stellar mom at this stage of the game. Hubby and I are wired for youth ministry and so I thought this would be my shining moment in motherhood. Not so much. Darling daughter…
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Dear Tightly Wound Woman: Sometimes finishing well looks different than you think it does. You don’t have to be everything to everyone to finish well. You don’t have to do it all and then some to be counted among the greats. You don’t have to travel far and wide or…
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I was working long hours, trying to get my book proposal done for the upcoming Speak Up Conference. And then I got an email from a lady named Robyn, who was on the prayer team for the conference. This is what she wrote: God has given you a story, a…
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Sometimes God works in mysterious ways. He certainly did when he used a ex-con to answer my prayer. I was humbled as God taught me an important truth about His provision through an unlikely source. This man’s apartment contains a few hand-me-down pieces of furniture, his clothes are plain, and…
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