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My sweet daughter Sophie gave me a photo shoot for my birthday. Here are the six best shots. Which one do you like and why?The post Which picture do you like best? appeared first on Mary DeMuth. ...
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That’s me. I’m worried. I remember watching my Grandmother Mary (whom I’m named after) worry, worry, worry, vowing I would NOT grow up to be like that. And yet here I sit. Worried. I wrote a terribly (beautifully???) painful post yesterday about sexual abuse over at Deeper Church. Got lots ...
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If you’ve ever struggled in the area of sex because of past violation, I’ve written a post for you over at Deeper Church. I pray it’s a blessing to you.The post Vulnerable Post Alert appeared first on Mary DeMuth. ...
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I like “the end.” Don’t you? It’s closure, folks. A grand finale. It’s how I can continue on because I know one thing has ended and another has begun. I like my current story finished. But God often puts us in the midst of unfinished stories, doesn’t He? We struggle ...
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My friend Twilla shared this poem with us at Bible study this week. Such a good, good, good word that I had to share it with you. We’re not required to be strong. It’s our weakness that enables us to stop, rest, and ask God to fill our very empty ...
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This might not be popular. It might not be what marketers are after. But it’s true. It’s the power of small. I’m writing this from an author’s perspective, but the principles apply to anyone in business who has to market something. As authors, we don’t like those three words (power ...
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I had the privilege of speaking at the first-ever Re:write conference, inaugurated by my agent, Esther (and her amazing assistants and friends) last September 2012. Wow. One of the cool things was asking how many writers had attended the conference because I wrote about it. Quite a few raised their ...
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I’ve seen it happen over the past seven years. It’s hard for me to even write that number, seven. Has it really been that long since we lived in France and breathed the Mediterranean air? There on French soil, in the land of c’est la vie, we engaged. We hosted. ...
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Something happened when I birthed my first child in 1992. Suddenly the storyteller inside me ignited, and I knew I wanted to be a professional published writer. But my road to get from birthing a baby to birthing a publishing career took over a decade. During those ten years, I ...
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Today I release my cookbook, The Irresistible Table. Woohoo! Here it is: Some cool things about The Irresistible Table: My daughter Sophie staged the picture (we hauled out our table into the yard to get the lighting right) and designed the cover. This is actually my second cookbook. My first ...