Category Archives: Beauty

The Best Piece of Advice

Last fall, a YLCF reader named Amanda asked me some fun and thought-provoking questions for an interview over at Feelin’ Feminine.  The one that really gave me pause was this: “What is the best advice you have ever received?”  Not just the best advice I’d read, or the best advice I’d given, but the best [...]

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Something Beautiful

“One day at a time–this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”
It takes trust to live without worry for [...]

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And May All Your Christmases Be White

The trees were bare, leaves having long since fluttered from their home above on to the cold, equally barren looking ground. The air had that particular chill in it that made fires feel extra cozy, and sweaters extra nice, and hot cups of wonderful herbal teas (especially Celestial Seasonings Dessert Teas–which I have long since [...]

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Barefoot and Pregnant

I was seven months pregnant with our first child when Fairlight posed a question: “I’ve always wanted to ask, do pregnant women feel as cute as they look?”
I laughed.
I was beyond exhausted, more than glowing from the humidity I was unused to, and not feeling in the least bit cute.
“No,” I had to answer Fairlight [...]

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Set Apart

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 [...]

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