Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman is unlike the average book at your local Christian book store. As the title implies, it is most definitely set apart from the rest. It is not a book about being a happy, fulfilled, Christian woman-at least not in the terms we normally think of happiness [...]
Congratulations to Scott and Chantel
united in marriage on March 15 , 2009
Words are a feeble way to capture the power of a day like this. It was a day of innocent beauty and pure joy. We had an absolutely wonderful experience celebrating with Chantel and her new husband. Few pleasures in this life equal that of seeing a friend [...]
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. - Joseph Addison
Eleganceby Lanier Ivester
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. - Saint Augustine
In Maiden Meditation-Fancy Freeby Lanier Ivester
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the [...]
Short, fat, tall, thin. I look in the mirror and a thousand voices echo in my head. This is too big, that’s not big enough. My inner critic is relentless and harsh. Images swirl through my mind’s eye. Bone-thin models and beautiful actresses and singers. Every one of them telling me the same thing. You [...]
January 12, 2008
Last week my sister-in-law had two of my friends and me for lunch. It had been arranged before Christmas, a flurry of emails having saved and secured the date, but as I set out on that dour January morning, it seemed to me that the timing of our little gathering was exquisitely providential. [...]
