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Maria Dyck

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Maria Dyck is a blogger, worship leader, and music teacher who is passionate about helping women find healing and wholeness in Jesus Christ. A mother to 3 wonderful kids, and happily married to Jim, the man who fixes everything. When she's not on some crazy adventure with her family, she's happy to be home with a hot cup of tea, her favorite chair, and a good book. You can read more from Maria at her blog When Walls Tumble and on Instagram.

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How To Reconnect With Friends When You’ve Spent a Year in Lockdown

Posted on August 27, 2021August 13, 2021
Maria Dyck

Have you spent the past year and a half thinking about getting together with your friends? Opening up your door to visitors? Dreading the impending expectation of proper hospitality? Lockdown…

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two wedding bands placed over the dictionary definition of marriage | common myths about marriage

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Marriage

3 Surprising Myths About Marriage (And the Amazing Blessings that Replace Them)

Posted on March 29, 2021August 7, 2021
Maria Dyck

We all grow up with different views of marriage and what it means, but how much of what we see is a true picture of what marriage is really like?…

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Friendship & Community

Moving on Gracefully: Navigating the Messy Waters of a Broken Friendship

Posted on October 23, 2020June 19, 2021
Maria Dyck

I saw her from across the room and instantly my stomach tightened. She was surrounded by friends and did not notice my arrival. Or did she? Either way, I decided…

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Homemaking

The Gift of Ugly

Posted on June 30, 2020June 19, 2021
Maria Dyck

It was worse than I thought. But I suppose that’s what you get when you agree to buy a house you didn’t look at beforehand. It had been a frustrating…

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The Day I Forgave My Father| by Maria Dyck | The Joyful Life Magazine

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Loss | Suffering | Grief

The Day I Forgave My Father

Posted on June 12, 2018September 23, 2020
Maria Dyck

“Have you bought Dad a Father’s Day card already?” My sister asks casually as she picks at her kale salad. My head jerks up. I glance around the restaurant trying…

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