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If An Ex Pokes You on Facebook and You Don’t Respond, Did Anything Actually Happen?

February 5, 201681 CommentsMandy Hale

The following is an excerpt from my new book Beautiful Uncertainty, in stores now.

Those of you who are regular readers of my blog have introduced to my long-suffering, on-again, off-again ex, Mr. E. And I’m sure you likely have your own long-suffering, on-again, off-again ex, like Carrie’s “Mr. Big” in Sex & the City. This is what happened when mine reappeared in my life again after two years of silence.

Even though I hesitate to give him … » Read More

A Beautifully Uncertain 31-Day Challenge: Week Three

January 14, 201616 CommentsMandy Hale

Who’s ready to tackle week three?!

To recap: I decided to do things a little differently in 2016 by I’m inviting you to ditch the New Year’s resolutions and instead spend this first month of the year achieving one very simple, attainable goal each day. Since so many of us are in seasons of waiting (waiting for love, waiting for marriage, waiting for babies, waiting for an answer to a prayer, waiting for a cure or a phone … » Read More

A Beautifully Uncertain 31-Day Challenge: Week Two

January 8, 201625 CommentsMandy Hale

I hope everyone enjoyed Week One of the challenge! I have to say…I think I’m even more excited about Week Two!!!!

To recap: I decided to do things a little differently in 2016. This year, I’m inviting you to ditch the resolutions and instead start a New Year’s REVOLUTION with me, in the form of achieving one very simple, attainable goal each day. Since so many of us are in seasons of waiting (waiting for love, waiting for … » Read More

Dash of Sass: Nothing to Prove

January 30, 201522 CommentsMandy Hale

I’ve been on a journey with God in this new year about pride. God showing me my own prideful behaviors and using others as mirrors to reveal to me who I no longer want to be. I don’t want to be that person who uses social media as a scratching post for my wounded ego, as a platform for boasting about myself, or as a medium for convincing other people how great or actualized or … » Read More

Dash of Sass: What’s For You is For You

January 22, 201530 CommentsMandy Hale

I didn’t write this quote, but this could well be my mantra for 2015. RELAX, I just keep hearing God whisper into my spirit. Stop striving. Stop seeking after things that others have. Stop DOING so much and just learn to BE. Because here’s the thing. You can easily scroll through Twitter or Facebook or any other social media stream at any given time on any given day and feel completely lacking and inadequate when … » Read More

That Time Jesus Added Me As a Friend on Facebook

January 24, 201429 CommentsMandy Hale

“An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.” ~John Eldredge

As many of you know, I made it a New Year’s resolution this year to seek God with abandon and to get uncomfortable in my life in … » Read More

Dash of Sass: Are Your Facebook Posts Actually Driving Love Away?

April 23, 20133 CommentsMandy Hale

Quotes of the Day: Desperation and impatience twist our thinking and pull us into error and deception every time. ~Michelle McKinney Hammond There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. ~Maya Angelou While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: The Truth Behind Social Media Shadiness

May 29, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “Love isn’t complicated – people are.” ~Unknown The Single Woman Says: Social media shadiness. Facebook shadiness. Twitter shadiness. Texting/BBM/IM’ing shadiness. We’ve all been a victim of it at one point or another. A guy you’re dating doesn’t approve your friend request. Still another never responds to you in public on Twitter – only through DM’s. And another always manages to … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: The Urge to Purge

January 23, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” ~Oprah The Single Woman Says: Yesterday I tweeted a quote by Patti Stanger about the act of deleting your exes from your phone in order to make room for new love to arrive. After I tweeted it, I went through my phone and deleted about 10-12 … » Read More

Confessions of a Single Woman

July 2, 20102 CommentsMandy Hale

The life of a single woman is a whirlwind of contradictions. One minute you like a guy, the next you don’t; one day you have $2,000 in the bank, the next you’re chasing pennies around the floorboard of your car to afford a McDonald’s cheeseburger for dinner; one week you feel single and fabulous, the next you just feel lonely and mediocre. It happens to the best of us. There is no real safety net … » Read More