Mary Joy
Author's details
Name: Mary Joy Pershing
Date registered: July 29, 2011
URL: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com
Biography
I am a broken daughter of God and a work in progress. I am passionate about encouraging women to embrace God's grace and faithfulness as I discover and share His faithfulness, grace and even joy in the messiness of my journey as a recently widowed, homeschooling mom with a missionary's heart. I am in awe of how God fills me up and carries me through each day as a new widow and accident survivor. My Heavenly Father leads me as I continue to parent and homeschool our two recovering and very active boys; and encourage my beautiful teenage step-daughter (long distance) as she graduates from high school without her Daddy. In every moment I see incredible evidence of God's healing love, grace and faithfulness. I am so blessed to be the creator, manager, and lead author of Unwrapping His Grace as I lean on my Savior to lead us in this special web-ministry.
Latest posts
- A.C.T.S.– A Call to Serve with Adventures in Odyssey! — May 18, 2013
- New Beginnings…Our Daughter Graduates from High School — May 14, 2013
- Living God’s Call to be a Missionary in “Ordinary Life” — May 4, 2013
- Why Conform when God wants to Transform Us? — April 28, 2013
- What is our Calling? — April 27, 2013
Author's posts listings
{I wrote this post partnering with Adventures in Odyssey and Tyndale. I received Adventures in Odyssey Our Favorites in exchange for sharing their A.C.T.S.– A Call to Serve Summer Program and Contest as part of a Blog Tour. This is not a sponsored review and all views and opinions are of my own and were …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/05/18/a-c-t-s-a-call-to-serve-with-adventures-in-odyssey/
In July 2009, I had the incredible blessing of meeting the young lady who would become the daughter of my heart the following April. The photo above captures the instant love that happened between future big sister and her baby brother. Annie was getting ready to turn fourteen and Michael was just fourteen months old. …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/05/14/new-beginnings-our-daughter-graduates-from-high-school/
It is so hard to believe that May is already here. This past week, we had weather in the 80s and the boys even snuck out the sprinkler and made a mud slide in our backyard. The next day the temperatures dropped to the 40s. Tonight it is in the 30s with very, cold rain …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/05/04/living-gods-call-to-be-a-missionary-in-ordinary-life/
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:2 NLT I love how the NLT puts this verse…conforming means to …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/04/28/why-conform-when-god-wants-to-transform-us/
What is our calling? Are we called to do something for God? Many times we can get frustrated and exhaust ourselves trying to figure out the answer to that question…what are called to be? I was in a Bible Study a few weeks back and I heard the heart ache in a woman who was …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/04/27/what-is-our-calling/
Parenting isn’t easy. Parenting after living through a horrific accident and in a few moments of time becoming a widowed mother is even harder than I imagined some days. There are days when I struggle…when I struggle a lot. There are days that are filled with beautiful times. But over the past several weeks, our …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/04/24/parenting-isnt-easy-but-we-dont-do-it-alone/
Me Easter Sunday 1969 when I was two years old. This past week has been pretty much like a roller coaster of parenting and pretty intense. So after reflecting about what to write about for tonight’s blog post, I decided to do something different. After all, in the past several months there have been …
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Permanent link to this article: http://www.surrenderedlivingnow.com/2013/04/21/time-to-answer-your-questions/
