Katie 5 Minute Read I sat down at the table across from my pastor and his wife and took a deep breath. I was about to tell them I was going to be less involved with our young adults group at church*. Two hours later with peace and their blessing, I embarked on a new adventure – creating community…
Elisabeth Allen 6 Minute Read In a spirit of honestly I must confess that I won’t be thirty for a few weeks yet, but stick with me, okay? So…the truth? A family friend just wrote it in an email, Although you feel that you are getting older, you are still in the prime of your life. I read those words…
Caroline Rose Sanders 4 Minute Read “I bet you and your siblings are really close, huh?” someone asks me yet again. “Yup!” I reply. “We are!” There’s not much use in going deeper into the topic with someone who can never relate. The moment they hear that we were homeschooled, they’ve already imagined us in our own personal one-room schoolhouse with…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read She lost her mother when she was sixteen. Her friends were talking about careers and giggling about boys. Her heart was heavy with the weight of a father to comfort and a family of little boys and girls to raise. She was a girl grieving her mother and yet overnight she had become a mother…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read In the middle of gymnastics class, my group of preschool girls decided oinking like pigs would be fun. Grinning at their giggles, I rolled my eyes and asked for quiet. Obediently, they shushed, although their smiles still spoke of their joy. Smiling back, I faced them, stood on the closest low balance beam, and demonstrated…
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,…
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read Maybe it was, whatever your age, a schoolgirl crush that will make you shrug and smile in years to come. Maybe it was a deep, genuine, womanly love for the man you hoped to marry and know you’ll never forget. Or maybe it was both a little bit more and a little bit less. You…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Do you remember when you were a little girl and it was sometimes REALLY hard to honour your parents? At that age “honour” was usually spelled o-b-e-y or r-e-s-p-e-c-t. The trouble is that now we’re all grown up — with our own faith, ideals and values as well as our own personalities and preferences in…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Girls live at home after one-and-twenty for a variety of reasons that I, personally, find fascinating. If you live at home then it’s probably for one of these reasons: You have a personal and strong conviction that living at home is God’s plan for unmarried and childless women. You don’t have any money for rent…
Elisabeth Allen 6 Minute Read I am and always will be my father’s daughter and I’m reminded of this fact whenever I look in the mirror and see the smile — shared by me and all my sisters — that I’ve inherited from my father and grandfather. Some things never change… …and some things do and should change. The challenge…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read It had been a roller coaster of a relationship. Or, an almost relationship. We had been friends for a long time, “more than friends” for even longer and yet the timing was never right. Never, until now.
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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