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50 Questions to Ask Before Falling In Love

You like him. He likes you. The chemistry is jiving. Now what? Where do you go from there? Working through the nitty gritty of a relationship can be exciting and totally confusing at the same time. Figuring out if this guy is someone you want to spend your life with can be really *really* hard. […]

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Is Being a Woman about More than Getting Married and Having Babies?

If being a woman is entirely about getting married and having babies, then Kristen and I are failing miserably. I don’t have a husband, which means I don’t have children, and Kristen has a husband but God hasn’t given her children yet. As most of you know I would love to get married and Kristen […]

Bethany’s Journal Entries Following a Difficult Breakup

I didn’t want to be that girl. That girl who sat on her bed sobbing over an ended relationship. I didn’t want to be in that sad/heart-wrenching position, but there I was. Broken hearted and wondering why it had to be me. In the moments that followed my breakup, I didn’t know what to do […]

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Choosing to Surrender Your Dreams and Future to God

I remember three distinct times in my life that I had to surrender my dreams to God. Once at age seventeen, twenty, and twenty-four. When I was seventeen I’d been offered several full basketball scholarships to division one universities. Basketball was my passion and I loved playing (like LOVED playing!). When I wasn’t playing basketball […]

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5 Questions Girls Should Ask Before Posting a Selfie

I was thirteen years old, loving life, and desperately trying to grab a certain guy’s attention. After a full week at church camp, I was hanging out in the sports court waiting for my parents to pick me up. I knew at any moment my ride would pull into the parking, so I had to […]

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Why Your Singleness Isn’t a Holding Station for Marriage

I’ve spent a good amount of time dreaming about the future. Not dreaming of a future being married to my truest handsome love (although I do dream about that sometimes). What I’m currently dreaming about is something very near to my heart. I’m currently dreaming about the impact that we, as single Christian women, could […]

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