By Mandy McCarty Harris Youth Sports Are Ordinary, Which is Why They’ll Always Be Special To Me
It’s a normal thing, I guess. I’m sure millions of kids around the world play youth sports. Hundreds play in…
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Mandy McCarty Harris
You Are So Much More Than a Before and After Picture
I’m so sad about all the pictures I’ve taken in my life, believing that who I was at the moment…
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I Believe in God and I Still Have a Million Questions
Today my daughter came to me with some pretty heavy Heaven/Hell, God/Jesus, Adam/Eve, good/bad, prayer/worry questions. I took a deep…
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Dear Husband: I Need Some Alone Time, So Please Take the Kids With You
Dear husbands, Take the kids. Take them with you. Need to run an errand? Take the kids. Think it would…
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Bring Back the Tradition of a Victory Garden
In a throwback to old school living and embracing a simpler life, many families are turning to the World War…
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True Friendship is a Gift
There have certainly been times in my adult life I felt isolated. There have been seasons when, outside of my…
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Date Nights Are Not What Held Our Marriage Together
“You should date your spouse.” I heard this advice as a newly married woman and hung my hat on its…
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Church is Not a Place—It’s a People
Church didn’t happen this morning. Oh, it happened, but we weren’t there, if you consider the church to be a…
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Praying With My Daughter Grew Both of Our Faiths
One of my longtime favorite places to pray has been in the car. Those rare and stolen moments of solitude…
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This is the Sweet Spot of Marriage
Every year I tiptoe the line between not wanting to be the girl who gushes about her wedding anniversary on…
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The Journey of Grief is All Your Own
My 7-year-old daughter, Emma, died seven years ago from complications associated with Pantothenate Kinase Associated Neurodegeneration, an extremely rare and…
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You’ll Always Love Your Kids, But Sometimes You Won’t Like Them Very Much
When I was three months pregnant with my first child, after a particularly difficult day with someone else’s rowdy toddler,…
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