by Mary Carver | Feb 10, 2014 | Home Life, recipes & food
Nearly every Sunday night, as we drive home from small group, Mark looks at me across the front seat and asks, “What are we going to do for dinner?” And nearly every Sunday night, as we drive home from small group, I look at him across the front seat, grit...
by Mary Carver | Feb 1, 2014 | Faith Life, Giving Up on Perfect
My friends have been in Africa this week. I’ve read their posts through half-open eyes – not because I’m sleep-deprived but because their beautiful, heart-felt and heart-broken words are hard to read, hard to process, just hard. Every time Compassion...
by Mary Carver | Jan 31, 2014 | Books, Movies & TV, Family Life, My Life, parenting, What I'm Into
Sometimes I get the most random songs stuck in my head. And other times the notes and lyrics that come to me seem to appear for a reason, like with Katy Perry’s Unconditional a few weeks ago. I couldn’t tell you the last time I’d heard this...
by Mary Carver | Jan 27, 2014 | Faith Life
This post was originally published on (in)courage in July 2013…but it seems pretty relevant during these rough-but-beautiful newborn days! Sometimes a difficult day comes out of nowhere, surprising you with its frustrations and challenges. Sometimes, though,...
by Mary Carver | Jan 24, 2014 | Home Life, recipes & food
Some people go for the game. Others, the commercials. At times the dispute between the two groups can be even more heated than the one between the two teams actually playing the game. (Or maybe that’s just around here, where our team hasn’t made it past...
