by Mary Carver | Feb 1, 2014 | Faith Life, Giving Up on Perfect
My friends have been in Africa this week. I’ve read their posts through half-open eyes – not because I’m sleep-deprived but because their beautiful, heart-felt and heart-broken words are hard to read, hard to process, just hard. Every time Compassion...
by Mary Carver | Dec 2, 2013 | Faith Life, Giving Up on Perfect
The holiday season always seems to fly by at an increasingly rapid pace. From Halloween on, really, the days and occasions slip by faster and faster. And when Thanksgiving falls at the very end of the month, the sprint to Christmas feels a bit insane, doesn’t...
by Mary Carver | Sep 23, 2013 | Faith Life, Giving Up on Perfect
“Poverty is not necessarily an issue to solve; it is an opportunity to serve. As we go through each day, our heart’s cry should be, Lord, where would you have me give, serve, and invest myself to bring hope to the poor?” ~ Johnny Carr This month my...
by Mary Carver | Sep 12, 2013 | Faith Life
I’ll never forget the day I got an email from Holley asking me to write for a new website called (in)courage. That email changed my life in ways I never could have imagined. And that email came more than four years ago! It’s hard to believe so much time...