by Mary Carver | Mar 22, 2022 | Faith Life
Nobody calls in the middle of the night with good news. My normally innocent ringtone turned ominous the moment it broke the silence and woke me from a sound sleep. After being startled awake in that manner, I wasn’t even surprised to hear sobbing when I finally...
by Mary Carver | Feb 23, 2022 | Faith Life, Movie Moments
Recently I watched a movie about a group of kids competing for the chance to have their voices recorded and sent into space through a NASA program. The contest wasn’t really the most important part of the movie, though a casual viewing might lead you to believe it...
by Mary Carver | Dec 12, 2021 | Faith Life
Before we began our family road trip last summer, I thought about how I’d never been to the Grand Canyon. I thought about how exciting it would be to go places I’d never been, to see things I’d never seen. I even thought about how we’d deal with the heat and the...
by Mary Carver | Nov 28, 2021 | Faith Life
“I just can’t even get mad anymore.” I was telling a friend about something I’d seen, and while normally it would have made me furious, this time I just felt sad. Earlier that evening, I’d found myself sitting in an auditorium in shock. Eyes wide and heart...
by Mary Carver | Sep 28, 2021 | Faith Life
Please proceed to the route . . . Please proceed! To the route!Please! Proceed! To! The route!Rerouting . . . And then, radio silence. This was what I heard several times during my family vacation this past summer. My husband, two daughters, and I drove from...
by Mary Carver | Jul 11, 2021 | Faith Life
Years ago, our church family split apart, partly over disagreements and difficulties related to a new building in which we planned to meet. I became convinced that having a permanent physical space wasn’t really important for a church. The church was made of people,...
