by Mary Carver | Oct 27, 2013 | Giving Up on Perfect
[Email subscribers, click here to see the video.] Last week after church Mark was helping tear down (we’re a mobile church that meets in a high school), so Annalyn and I decided to grab lunch at Taco Bueno. Apparently they had some sort of taco emergency going...
by Mary Carver | Oct 24, 2013 | My Life
I don’t have a single dream, fantasy or personal fairy tale that doesn’t begin with, “Once upon a time there was a beautiful, thin girl named Mary.” Every dream I claim as my own begins and ends with me losing weight and looking different than...
by Mary Carver | Oct 23, 2013 | Faith Life
When I was a senior in high school, I wanted to be Michelle Pfeiffer in Up Close & Personal. I’d report important stories. I’d travel the world. I’d even fall in love with a handsome, not-nearly-as-old-looking-as-he-is-now Robert Redford if I...
by Mary Carver | Oct 22, 2013 | My Life
So far this month, we’ve taken a hard look at the expectations and dreams we have for our lives, our homes, our families, our careers, our friends. We’ve held them up to the light of reality – in its beauty and its challenges – and we’ve...
by Mary Carver | Oct 21, 2013 | Family Life
Making friends in elementary school is easy. It’s more a matter of proximity than affinity, and while having a six-year-old daughter has taught me that mean girls come younger and younger these days, friendship – for the most part – is simple for...
