Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” -C.S. Lewis You are not born a bibliophile, you become one–but usually at a very young age. The members of the writing team here at Kindred Grace can all attest to the fact that the picture…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I don’t know anyone who would say that their life has been a bed of roses. There are good times and there are hard times and they come to each of us. As bibliophiles, we go to books in the hard times just as we do in the happy times. Several members of our writing…
Caroline Rose Sanders 10 Minute Read Dear Readers, Today I am very excited to introduce to you my dear friend, fellow writer and all-around lovely woman: Laura Anderson Kurk! Laura is a real-life author, a wife, a mom and (for me!) a local treasure! When we first met, several years ago, we connected immediately. We were both attending a writer’s group…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read Your mama could’ve called it from a mile away. That sweet boy who was “just a good friend” has gone and broken your heart. Or just as likely, you’ve broken his. And now you’re wondering where you went wrong. After all, last you checked everything was platonic, and now you’re suddenly in a sticky, complicated,…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read My youngest sister Jubilee is only ten. She has been the baby of our large family her entire life. However, this will not always be the case. Soon we will have a new sister, nine-year-old Meggie from Eastern Europe. Meggie has spent both the summer and Christmas breaks with us this year and we are…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read I come from a large, close-knit family. Holidays have always been very happy, special times. We aren’t the type to sit quietly around the the tree and wait as each person opens their gift. Christmas morning is always a time of beautiful, intentional chaos because we are all bursting with joy and gratitude. Thanksgiving dinner…
Caroline Rose Sanders 7 Minute Read Today we have an interview with a special guest. Kristen Strong of Chasing Blue Skies is here talking about friendship, getting along with other women and true community. Don’t miss this!
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read The year was 1997 and I was in my first (and only) year of public school. Like a good little girl, I had lined up on the sidewalk which led from the playground to the awning. Recess was over and I was waiting behind several of my sweaty peers to go to my next class….
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I get my energy from spending great amounts of time alone. However, I do not think that’s how people see me. When I am with people I am comfortable with I can very extroverted. And because I am a pastor’s wife I have had to learn how to more extroverted than I even want to be.
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read The hour was late. My two sisters sat at the dining room table with me as I munched on a snack. Birdie was braiding Jubilee’s hair while Jubilee read her new (abridged) copy of Little Women. Someday she will read the actual, full-length edition of Little Women and Good Wives complete with the original woodcut…
Caroline Rose Sanders 2 Minute Read Many of us share a respect and admiration for Elisabeth Elliot, world-famous missionary, speaker, writer and woman of God. We’ve eaten up her books on purity and femininity and walked through her devotionals, but not everyone has heard of her book on gladly surrendering. But ladies: this is a don’t miss. I first read Discipline:…
Caroline Rose Sanders 6 Minute Read I am waiting for someone who’s worth waiting for or no one at all, and that about sums up my thoughts on singleness. At least, that’s the simple version of my philosophy. I am twenty-one years old and waiting. Waiting passively in one sense, actively in another. I am passive in the sense that I…
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