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 23, 2013 | Faith Life
Yesterday I took Annalyn to the pediatrician. I knew her fever and coughing and never-ending nose-blowing was probably just a cold, but I didn’t want to take the chance of her getting worse over Christmas. Good thing, because it turns out the poor baby has...
by Mary Carver | Dec 18, 2013 | Faith Life
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. ~ Anna Quindlen Today is my birthday. I’m 35 years old. Thirty-five isn’t old, but it isn’t young either. Even though I...
by Mary Carver | Dec 9, 2013 | Books, Movies & TV, Faith Life
Sometimes when I ask God for help, He doesn’t cooperate. I don’t mean that He doesn’t answer. I don’t mean that He isn’t with me always, protecting me and loving me in ways I could never begin to understand. I don’t mean that He...
by Mary Carver | Nov 13, 2013 | Faith Life
That tree? It’s my not-orange tree – the one whose roots crushed our sewer line. But doesn’t it simply glow against that blue sky? My front yard is still torn up from last week’s plumbing fiasco. But the sewer line is fixed, and I can flush my...
