by Mary Carver | Jan 6, 2014 | Faith Life
“So, what do you do?” How many times have we heard (or asked) that question, meeting someone for the first time at a party, a charity event, a church dinner? It comes almost immediately after the exchange of names and determines how the rest of that...
by Mary Carver | Jan 4, 2014 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life, What I'm Into
Happy 2014, everyone! I hope your holidays were refreshing and restful, full of joy and celebration! Mine were pretty good, though full of pneumonia, family functions that happened in two different states at the exact same time, and lots of [semi-stressful] nesting....
by Mary Carver | Jan 1, 2014 | Faith Life
Sometimes God likes to – or needs to – smack me over the head with a Truth. After doing my best to ignore it (or genuinely missing what He’s trying to teach me), suddenly a theme will appear EVERYWHERE. A couple weeks ago, it was the idea of...
by Mary Carver | Dec 30, 2013 | Giving Up on Perfect
I don’t remember what my cousin suggested I do the other night during Christmas dinner, but I remember my response: “Oh, you must not have heard me earlier when I said I’M DONE DOING ALL THE THINGS!” My daughter piped up to back me up:...
by Mary Carver | Dec 28, 2013 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life, What I'm Into
A few days ago I wrote about those year-end lists that show up on pretty much every website during the last month of every year. And I confessed that I didn’t write a best-of list last year, because 2012 didn’t have anything best about it. This year,...
