by Mary Carver | Jan 17, 2018 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, friendship, Movie Moments
Last weekend I got into a bit of a social media fight over a slightly political statement I made. Not one part of that sentence is normal for me, so it caused a whole lot of stress to bubble up inside. I also missed about half a night’s sleep, thanks to a...
by Mary Carver | Feb 18, 2016 | friendship
I think I met Dawn the weekend (in)courage was announced, at the She Speaks conference in 2009. But I’m not sure. And I don’t remember which conference we first ended up as roommates. I just know that, somewhere along the way, Dawn became one of my most...
by Mary Carver | Jan 5, 2016 | friendship
About a year ago I ran across a great post on Marie’s blog. She wrote about how she’d made a First Trimester Survival Kit for a friend, and I was SO BUMMED. Not because I needed one (nope, not me!), but because I had just visited a pregnant friend and...
by Mary Carver | Apr 23, 2015 | Faith Life, Family Life, friendship
She heard me say that I lose my patience and my temper much too often — and that my daughter knows the words to more pop songs than I’d like, and that I know which fast food restaurants have the best toys. She heard me admit those things and her response,...
by Mary Carver | Mar 27, 2015 | Faith Life, Family Life, friendship
I asked my friend how she was doing. No, really, I said. How ARE you? Her child had been sick — scary sick — and I could only imagine how scared and stressed and exhausted she must have felt. Though I’d offered help in various ways, she’d...