by Mary Carver | Aug 4, 2019 | friendship
This post was originally posted at (in)courage. Do you have authentic friendships? Are you living in true community? Those questions sure seem to be popular right now. The encouragement to develop authentic, doing-life-together relationships with people, the...
by Mary Carver | Jul 3, 2019 | Faith Life
The Channel Tunnel — or the “Chunnel” as it’s often called — is an underwater tunnel more than 31 miles long linking France and Great Britain. Though the idea for this tunnel was introduced in the early 1800s, construction of the actual project didn’t take place until...
by Mary Carver | May 22, 2019 | Faith Life, Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Movie Moments
Once upon a time, I wrote a devotional just for you… Beauty and the Beast is a story we know as a fairy tale full of magic and romance and, at least in the most recent movies, songs guaranteed to be stuck in your head for days. But is that all there is to this tale?...
by Mary Carver | May 15, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Giving Up on Perfect, Truth in TV Shows
“Do you really think that’s going to work? I mean, maybe we should just give up on this and accept that nothing’s going to change. This is just how it is.” For a hot minute I couldn’t breathe right. She hadn’t physically punched me, but I still felt her response in my...
by Mary Carver | Apr 22, 2019 | Faith Life
This post was originally published in 2012. ************************** “Throw your nets on the other side,” He said. “Just give it one more try.” I don’t actually know anything about fishing. The last time I went fishing, I let go of the button thing too soon and...