Guest Author 5 Minute Read She looks at her hands, twisting, untwisting, fingers chasing fingers. Now she looks at the ceiling. Now her hands. Twist. Untwist. Twist. All the while she’s saying it, getting it out there: Sometimes I feel like I’m not very beautiful.
Guest Author 4 Minute Read Recovering from disordered eating can seem like a long, fearful journey. Yet our God is the God of Hope, the Great Physician, the Giver of all Good Gifts. Can we trust God to help us glorify Him in eating?
Guest Author 6 Minute Read People with disordered eating have varying degrees of extremity in their habits. But it is not just an occasional moment of failing to glorify God in your eating (we all do that!); rather it is a consistent pattern of behavior and perspective that dominates your life.
If this describes you, you are not alone.
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Do you feel confused when you look into your wardrobe? Are you overwhelmed when you go shopping? What is your style? For clothes? For shoes? For accessories?
Finding your style is never going to be quite as easy as 1-2-3, but it is possible and rewarding.
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Modesty is about so much more than the clothes I wear! It’s about the way I wear the clothes I wear. It’s about the way I sit and stand and walk. It’s about the way I talk. It’s about the way I look when I talk. It’s about the way I smile and laugh. Clothes are only a bit of the story of modesty.
Jessica Telian 4 Minute Read What imaginative girl has not been captivated by the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery? With a loving eye and a ready pen she gave to the world a tiny island off the coast of New Brunswick and a little band of girl heroines that have delighted the souls of ‘kindred spirits’ the world over. How…
Elisabeth Adams 2 Minute Read Annie Downs loves Scotland, ice cream, and unexpected shades of nail polish. Even more, she loves Jesus — and talking about Jesus to girls like you…and me. I’m older than Annie’s intended audience. In fact, I’m even a little older than Annie herself. But she had me from the very beginning: from the snow day…
Danielle Carey 3 Minute Read Carolyn McCulley was a successful professional in her early thirties when she first met Jesus. She was a staunch feminist, a position founded on roots reaching much deeper than the more recent challenges of being a professional woman in the corporate world. Her defense of woman was one that began in the schoolyard, goaded by…
Katie 4 Minute Read In the fall of 2010, I had the privilege of watching the very first pre-showing of the movie Courageous during my internship at Focus on the Family. It was a night that changed my life. As I walked out of the theater, I began asking the promoters and Courageous staff what they were going to…
Chantel 2 Minute Read I like to collect sunshine. I like finding those little things or moments in my day that glow and add a certain touch of contentment and happiness to an ordinary day. I like finding sunshine in the first rays of the morning, breaking over the tree tops. I like finding sunshine in the way every…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read It’s scary because I’m not perfect. I still have so much life to live and so many lessons to learn! But (what if?) God is putting stories on my heart and whispering, “Please write – or draw – this for Me.” And so I try…try to write stories and draw pictures that capture a tiny bit of that “irresistible” vision of womanhood.
Chantel 4 Minute Read For as long as I can remember, I have found nothing soothes the heart and relaxes the mind like slipping away into a quiet place, surrounded by nature. There I can listen, and let the cares that burden the heart slip away with the wind. It is my hiding place, where I feel close to…
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