by Mary Carver | Sep 14, 2012 | Faith Life
For the past six months, my life has been . . . complicated. Messy. Full of stuff. And even though a lot of that stuff has been hard and all of it has been challenging, some of it has certainly been good. But all of it put together has felt overwhelming, to say the...
by Mary Carver | Sep 12, 2012 | Faith Life
Dear 18-Year-Old Mary, Don’t freak out. Yes, this is a letter from the future. But I promise no Stargate-like time warp was involved. Just a little blog magic. [What’s a blog? Right. That’s for another conversation.] So, you know how your mom keeps...
by Mary Carver | Sep 7, 2012 | Faith Life, Family Life
Are you living in community? That question sure seems to be popular right now. The encouragement to develop authentic, doing-life-together relationships with people, the chastisement to stop hiding, stop being afraid of getting hurt – it’s all the rage,...
by Mary Carver | Sep 4, 2012 | Faith Life
How many types of ketchup do we really need? My daughter has always been observant to an uncanny degree. This means, first of all, that you cannot have “for grown-up ears only” conversations around her, make promises (or threats) you don’t intend to...
by Mary Carver | Aug 29, 2012 | Faith Life
I stood in the church basement, alone in a crowd of proud parents and chaotic kids, unsure of my next move. Am I going to throw up? Or am I going to cry? I wondered. Neither, as it turns out, because before I could process the news that had just rocked me, my daughter...
