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Happy Birthday, Aidan!

Today my son is eighteen years old. He’s six foot four, intelligent, thoughtful and amazing. (Yes, I’m a biased mom.) I can’t wait to see what God will do with his life in the coming years. Here are 18 things I love about Aidan. He has a heart for the less fortunate. When he was […]

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Buy Not Marked & Get Free Healing Resources

Today is the day. The official day Not Marked releases. I’m full of fear and excitement and a little heartburn (if you want true honesty). The book started from a viral blog post, morphed into something I pitched to publishers (they said no), became a crowdfunding campaign (you said YES), and is now a book […]

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I Stand for Sexual Abuse Victims

I ache when I hear or read about sexual assault. I simply cannot handle it. It’s even worse when I see the church perpetrating it or covering it up. When I learn about a powerful person perpetrating against the weak, I’m back in the schoolyard, wanting to duke it out with the bully. Problem is, […]

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When You’re Afraid to be Naked

You know the dream, right? You’re sitting in your high school Calculus class, taking some sort of terrible test, and you look down and realize you’re wearing no clothes. Bucknaked You runs through the hallways, trying to shield yourself, though your antics prove useless. No matter what you do, or how hard you try to […]

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How to Protect Your Children from Sexual Abuse

This is an excerpt from Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing After Sexual Abuse. In the aftermath of Dylan Farrow’s story of her own sexual abuse and attempts to remedy her situation, we once again see how important it is to be vigilant, connected, aware parents. Before we look at ways to protect our kids, […]

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When you are enslaved to a taskmaster (you!) and how to be set free

I’ve heard this before: Don’t “should” all over yourself. Oh dear. Guilty. As Not Marked is readying for release a week from today, I’m scarily buried under a weight of shoulds. I should try to be on more radio stations. I should write more guest posts. I should create more giveaways. I should jump at […]

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What Weeds Taught Me About Myself

I’m pestered by myself on more than one occasion. I’m one of those all-or-nothing gals. (Click to tweet) It’s tyranny, folks. Like right now, I’m looking out my window. I should be overjoyed that I have an office with a window, right? I am, but… Infiltrating our dormant Bermuda grass are hairy little grassy weedy […]

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Tell Her She’s Beautiful

She walked into the restaurant, and I felt in that moment she was stunning. Must’ve been about 70 years old, impeccably dressed, elegant, and just so very beautiful. Go tell her she’s beautiful. Really, Lord? I mean, I’m in this restaurant, and it’s crowded, and people are all around. I don’t know her. Don’t you […]

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Get Not Marked (the hold-in-your-hands-book) FREE! Here’s how

I’m doing a 10-book giveaway at Goodreads starting today. Click the link below to be entered to win the book. Not Marked officially releases in paperback on February 10th. Goodreads Book Giveaway Not Marked by Mary E. DeMuth Giveaway ends February 10, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win  

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Do you trust others?

The gospel of John has this interesting snippet at the end of chapter two: “Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, and […]

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