Author: Chara Donahue As a child I often wove through tales of great heroes. Aligned in sequence they greeted me in a procession of freedom fighters, redemption seekers, and ruckus rumblers. Box after box they lured me into worlds built around different rules and unique powers that surpass the things of dreams. There in the…
Hope in Nursing School
Author: Krissa Dorfner Balancing the roles of wife, mother, student, employee, friend, family member and church member has been the most challenging thing I have ever done. The last three years have been far from easy, and yet, have also been the most rewarding in many ways; rewarding because God was ever present in my…
Hope on Mother’s Day
Author: Chara Donahue It was 12:30 AM Mother’s Day 2005, our first as husband and wife, and we were in the ER. I was bleeding; I was pregnant, but they were telling me I wouldn’t be for much longer. There was no heartbeat. I stared at the wall, and my husband prayed. It felt like…
Hope at the Finish Line
Author: Karly Grant Sometimes, life isn’t easy. Sometimes God allows messy, difficult things to happen in our lives. Sometimes, we find ourselves caught in the middle of scary, chaotic, seemingly hopeless storms. God tells us this. We hear others talk about “storms”, but sometimes it takes actually experiencing one to really understand. Just over a year ago, a…
Hope for Writers
Faith and Culture Writers’ Conference Reflection Author: Chara Donahue In my stocking this past Christmas was a gift from my husband. A small little piece of torn notebook paper with “one writer’s weekend” scrawled across it. My husband had asked me what I wanted, and I told him a weekend of quiet to focus on…
Hope at Nap Time
Author: Chara Donahue I was putting my four year old down for a nap, and she thought this was a horrible idea. I began to fluff her covers and nestle her in, and she kept flipping around and thrashing like I was tying straps instead of tucking sheets. Then suddenly she freezes, stares at me…
Hope in Being Single
Author: Sarah Dohman It makes me a little nervous to write about my relationship status (or lack thereof). It’s personal, and frankly my philosophy for sharing my being single has been on a need-to-know basis only. It’s for me to know, and you to find out. I think it keeps the mystery alive. However, in…
Hope in the Temporary Home
Author: Holly Hawes Have you ever lived somewhere that you knew would be temporary? The 3-month or yearlong in-between place? It’s interesting, when I know a place is going to be temporary, I just kind of find myself in angst the entire time. No reason to put things on the walls. I might leave half…
Hope for the Hard Journey
Author: Chara Donahue There is this running theme found in every work of creation – literature, poetry, and movies: the life you see before you is all there is. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Life is a journey, not a destination.” While a beautiful thought with a thread of truth worth contemplating, there IS a destination….
Who We Are and Why We are Here
Welcome to Anchored Voices, a place for women to use their words and creativity to point each other to the God who anchors the soul. Conceived to foster an online community where we can remind one another that when the waves hit—in Jesus, the soul is safe. “We have this as a sure and steadfast…
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