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Wednesday Wisdom
Make This Summer About Being Present
Make This Summer About Being Present by Jen Lawrence As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.…
Make This Summer About Family and Friends
Make This Summer About Family and Friends by Jen Lawrence Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble. – Proverbs 17:17* With the kids out of school and a few long weekends on the horizon, summer is the ideal time to…
Make This Summer About Rest
Make This Summer About Rest by Jen Lawrence By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.” – Genesis 2:2 Around this time of year, one of my favourite passages from scripture is Mark 6:30-31:…
There’s No Such Thing As Happily Ever After
There’s No Such Thing as Happily Ever After We all know how the story goes in fairy tales: “…and they lived happily ever after.” And a lot of people (especially young women) go into marriage believing that once they’re married everything will work out just like that. No more loneliness,…
Part 2: Mistaken Identity – Hope & Healing for Our Hearts
Part 2 Mistaken Identity: Hope and Healing for our Hearts by Dr. Merry If you’re just joining us today, be sure to check out Part 1 of this 2-part series . You don’t want to miss the introduction that sets the stage for today’s blog post. ——– Remember our heroine,…
A Risk Worth Taking
A Risk Worth Taking I am truly enjoying Dr. Merry Lin this week. She is so down to Earth & holds so much wisdom. I feel like I could speak to her for hours. Maybe she could ‘fix’ me too! Today’s topic is one we could go on forever about…
Q & A with Ann Mainse – Marriage and Relationships
Q & A with Ann Mainse See Hear Love: Ann, you have some surprising stats about marriage – let us in on these? ANN: We all know that statistics aren’t very encouraging when it comes to predicting a successful marriage. In Canada a couple has a 40% chance of getting…
No Shame
No Shame Today’s episodes was definitely one of my favourites to film. Not only are relationships one of my passion topics, but we had Ann Mainse with us! I might have a bit of a #girlcrush. One of my favourite points from today was hearing the top three things each…
How to Build Your Own Personal Board of Directors
How to Build your own Personal Board of Directors Based on my own experience and observation of other millennials like me, I think there are 2 large mistakes people make when desiring mentors. The first is simply that we don’t ask someone to mentor us, expecting that the mentor will…
Trust Us With Your Story
Mentorship has meant a lot to me. It is a safe place when I need help working through my own thoughts. It’s a bank of wisdom I can go to when I’m confused about what’s right and wrong. It is what I earnestly seek in order to help find direction…
