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Surrendering to the God Who Sees

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The Hard Truth About How God Feels About You

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25 Days of Christmas Promises:
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Letting Go This Christmas Season

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The Four Friends We Need in a Crisis

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The Need for Seasonal Bookends During Change

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A Frustrating Part of the
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When Rejection Crowds Out the Rest of the Story

by Marnie Hammar

Six Ways to Show up for a Friend

by Jessica Turner

How to Pour Honey on Someone’s Soul Today

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The Hard Truth About How God Feels About You

by Michele Cushatt

Grace in the Midst of a Marriage Crisis

by Grace P. Cho

God Has Not Forgotten You

by Aliza Latta

For Women Who Are Holding the World Together

by Anjuli Paschall

It’s Our Tenth Birthday!

by Becky Keife

Let’s Be Dangerous Women

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Can You See What I See?

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The Truth Will Set You Free

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Mary Carver

When You Want This to Be Your Best Year Yet

by Mary Carver Jan 7, 2019

Last January I took a good, hard look at my life and myself. I sat down and made not just a list of goals but also wrote detailed steps to meet those goals. I was determined not to let another year slip by without making progress on some big parts of my life that, let’s be honest, have been sorely neglected or abused. My health, my career, my ...

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When the Holidays Make You Sad

by Mary Carver Dec 9, 2018

When I was in college, a friend introduced me to the movie, Home for the Holidays. Starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey, Jr., it’s about the special brand of family crazy that comes out around the holidays. For a group of half-adult, half-child college students preparing to go home for a few days, it was the perfect way to simultaneously brace ...

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Changing a Life and Changing the World

by Mary Carver Nov 1, 2018

When my friend Kristen announced she was starting a maternity home in Kenya, I was so impressed and proud and inspired but a little confused. If I’m honest, I didn’t really understand what she was doing or why she was doing it. I’d read her stories as she traveled with Compassion International, and I’d watched her — virtually, from a distance — ...

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When Your Slip Is Showing

by Mary Carver Sep 30, 2018

I'm sitting at Panera on a Sunday afternoon. I got here early enough to snag a booth for my laptop and me, but as the lunch crowd has grown I've grown self-conscious. People are probably mad that I'm taking up a whole booth, I think. I should get up and move. But as I crane my neck to look for a smaller table, preferably one near an outlet, I only ...

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Sorry Not Sorry

by Mary Carver Aug 29, 2018

"I'm sorry. How can I help you?" The first time I heard it, I thought I must've been mistaken. The second time I heard it, though, I realized that's indeed what she had said. The girl at the drive-thru window of my local McDonald's had started apologizing before taking orders. Now, I realize we could easily make a joke about how yes, fast ...

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The Value of Failure

by Mary Carver Jul 25, 2018

I’m in the market for some flashcards. For the first time since starting school, Annalyn is struggling a bit with math. I’m grateful her teacher constantly communicates with us and let us know she needs to work on some math facts. With a little extra effort I’m sure Annalyn will be back up to par for third-grade math. Side note: I’m not so ...

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Giving Up Isn’t in the Blood

by Mary Carver Jun 17, 2018

My oldest is ten years old, officially a "tween," as she's informed me. I suppose this means a lot of things, but one of the most fun is that as her mom, I have a legitimate reason to listen to pop music. Unironically. Because that's what she likes, so that's what we listen to, along with showtunes and worship songs, country music and what has ...

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Figuring Out Fresh Starts

by Mary Carver Apr 27, 2018

As we ate our takeout and queued up our shows on the DVR, my husband and I caught up on the business of the week. We talked again about our daughter’s behavior, and I confessed something I’d realized about the situation. “I can’t start fresh,” I whispered. “My frustrations just keep building and building, and there’s no break, no relief, no blank ...

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When You Don’t Feel Real

by Mary Carver Mar 22, 2018

The first time we bought an SUV (or, if you want to be technical, a crossover), the strangest thing happened. When I drove it I began feeling like "a real mom." WHAT. I don't know. I don't know what A REAL MOM is, you guys. But when I drove my mom car? I felt like one. We bought it not long before I quit my full-time job to stay home with ...

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The Difference Thirty Seconds Can Make

by Mary Carver Feb 20, 2018

On a Saturday morning I found myself with arms and mind overflowing as I hurried my girls into the car for a little road trip. Blankets and snacks and books and gift bags somehow made it into the car along with my people, and we were off. The first half of our drive was fairly peaceful, with the girls glued to tablets and books and me tuned into ...

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