Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Aprille I was a teenager when I first heard the analogy of the “construction paper heart”. This analogy, a well-intentioned object lesson, is meant to encourage young people to protect themselves from the dangers of experimental dating. The speaker uses a visual aid, a heart made out of red construction paper: “When you are…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read It’s so simple, really. When your brother or sister is cleaning your room, remember to say “thank you.” When they are tattling to mom about what a dear help you have been, turn a bashful eye. When they are cuddled up next to you reading a book and smelling so sweet, kiss them on the…
Jennifer Miles 4 Minute Read My precious daughters, You are so little right now, so entirely captivated by the joys of childhood. It is hard for me to imagine you as young women, grown and lovely and looking eagerly toward romance and marriage! Yet I know that time is coming for each of you, more quickly than I can grasp at…
Emily C. Gardner 2 Minute Read My Beautiful One, I saw you try to hide those tears yesterday. It wasn’t easy because you were sitting in a classroom, surrounded by your peers. What luck, you thought, that the girl next to you had just sprayed copious amounts of perfume and you could blame wet eyes on an allergic reaction. You’re getting…
Danielle Carey 5 Minute Read For any single woman who looks forward to someday loving and being loved, Valentine’s Day can probably never sneak by truly unnoticed. Even here in Australia, where the holiday is seriously downgraded in comparison to the high level of cupid activity in North America, it’s hard not to see the red and white and adorable…
Kristen Anne Glover 4 Minute Read Our kitchen table was drowning in construction paper, doilies, puffy heart-shaped stickers and contraband glitter. The children crowded around, hard at work maximizing the sticker-to-paper ratio on their Valentines, and I was hard at work trying not to be stingy about it. Chubby little fingers wrestled with scissors and an unyielding glue bottle and someone…
Natasha Metzler 3 Minute Read I was eighteen when my oldest brother married. He didn’t have to look far for a wife. After working, traveling and establishing a business, he turned around and asked my best friend to be his. We always laugh about their story. How they only dated for like, two days. How he proposed in front of…
Natasha Metzler 4 Minute Read (Don’t miss hearing about the men I {almost} married!) A Rhema: the Greek word for “the word of God”; a revelation. I was praying for “a rhema” last summer and God spoke this to me: “Do not doubt My power and do not question My timing.” (my journals, 2005) I didn’t recognize him the first few times…
Natasha Metzler 6 Minute Read We’ve all met someone who married their high school sweetheart. There is something heart-fluttering about marrying one’s first love. But few people actually do. The rest of us, our stories include the tales of the men we {almost} married. Because of that little word in there—that “almost”—these stories are often left to crumble and decompose in…
Katie 4 Minute Read My story isn’t a Hollywood one: I didn’t marry my first love or end up with my best friend. In fact, my story is still being written — but I have the best part already. My ‘happily ever after’ is starting now, right here in the middle of my manuscript. Several years ago I suffered…
Caroline Rose Sanders 3 Minute Read At first glance, it seemed like a good idea, or at least an entirely innocent one. Why not have a wedding-themed Pinterest board?
Katie 6 Minute Read Spring. Summer. Fall. Winter. Cycles, seasons, changes – good and bad, death and life – each season and cycle following the Divine Master’s plan. Each change and transition happens consistently, yet each is different and unique. One spring it’s cold and rainy, the next warm and sunny. How we act and dress in each season…
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