We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves. — Mary E. DeMuth Frighten Copy Share Image
“Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.” — Mary E. DeMuth Control Copy Share Image
We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness. — Mary E. DeMuth Darkness Copy Share Image
“I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than… — Mary E. DeMuth Abuse Copy Share Image
“It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new… — Mary E. DeMuth Art Copy Share Image
The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is. — Mary E. DeMuth Bigger Copy Share Image
“We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.” — Mary E. DeMuth Enemies Copy Share Image
“Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face… — Mary E. DeMuth Adventure Copy Share Image
“We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary… — Mary E. DeMuth Agenda Copy Share Image
“Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to… — Mary E. DeMuth Freedom Copy Share Image
“The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should… — Mary E. DeMuth Crutch Copy Share Image
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It… — Mary E. DeMuth Anxiety Copy Share Image
A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even… — Mary E. DeMuth Broken Copy Share Image
“We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release.… — Mary E. DeMuth Enslave Copy Share Image
A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us… — Mary E. DeMuth Blue Copy Share Image
“When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.” — Mary E. DeMuth Enough Copy Share Image
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it. — Mary E. DeMuth Heart Copy Share Image
Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts. — Mary E. DeMuth Growth Copy Share Image
Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a… — Mary E. DeMuth Arms Copy Share Image
“To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.” — Mary E. DeMuth Control Copy Share Image
“Your past will either haunt you or it will break you enough to reach for rescue.” — Mary E. DeMuth Haunt Copy Share Image
“I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.” — Mary E. DeMuth Fear Copy Share Image
“The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.” — Mary E. DeMuth Community Copy Share Image
“We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.” — Mary E. DeMuth Affection Copy Share Image
“With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.” — Mary E. DeMuth Attitude Copy Share Image
“When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and… — Mary E. DeMuth Conform Copy Share Image
“Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of… — Mary E. DeMuth Eternity Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out… — Mary E. DeMuth Control Copy Share Image
When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word.… — Mary E. DeMuth Chaos Copy Share Image
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The… — Mary E. DeMuth Breathe Copy Share Image
I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have… — Mary E. DeMuth Backwards Copy Share Image
“It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before… — Mary E. DeMuth Acceptance Copy Share Image
“To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can… — Mary E. DeMuth Abandon Copy Share Image
“My stubborn, self-savvy heart will not reach for the sky if my earth becomes everything I need. If people fill me up… — Mary E. DeMuth Faith Copy Share Image
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and… — Mary E. DeMuth Jesus Copy Share Image
When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives. — Mary E. DeMuth Frustrated Copy Share Image
“When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.” — Mary E. DeMuth Broken Copy Share Image
As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the… — Mary E. DeMuth Community Copy Share Image
We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in… — Mary E. DeMuth Failure Copy Share Image
“I want to live today in anticipation of what you will do next instead of constantly complaining about what isn't pristine in… — Mary E. DeMuth Anticipation Copy Share Image
