JP Heil 2013 was a murky watered year for a plethora of people. You weren't alone. It's time to welcome in the fresh new year of 2014.

Teressa Schuetz One of Laney’s wishes was to have Christmas carolers come to her house. Almost immediately after this was made known on Facebook, people began to make preparations to make this wish a reality. On December 23, over 8,000 people from the community lifted their voices in song to raise the spirits of one little girl.

Let's look at three widely known YA authors and the way they use sexual scenes: John Green, Meg Cabot, and Patricia McCormick.

We keep holding on in hopes of something and someone who will reciprocally lead us to Christ, and our patience is wearing tissue-thin.

According to a recent study, “Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem,” researchers found that 75% of  young women between the ages of 8-17 feel as if they do not “measure up” and view sex as a means to increase their value.

Christine Saah I’ve learned my limits, and it’s so hard to stop pressing forward so much. I also freak out thinking I have to be home for a whole month in a place that makes my skin crawl.

Carolyn Shields Because it would make sense for us to fall in love, I remember thinking.

Let's talk about indulging.

Latte-for-thought: the greater your income, the greater level of happiness, but there are three variables that trump this one factor.  Take that, Tony Stark.

If we reflect on the most beautiful moments of our lives, we are often blind to the manifested pain that accompanied them because beauty eclipses pain in retrospect. 

Emily Rogers On a mission trip to Alaska, Emily and her team knocked on strangers' doors to invite them to a bible study. Behind one, a woman was seriously contemplating suicide. Emily literally knocked, and the door was opened to her and to a life changing trip.

Carissa Knowd. Loving another is a risk. You risk feeling the sting of sad heart. You risk losing momentary happiness to help another gain eternal happiness; however, while that fleeting sadness you may feel hurts, truly loving one another gives your heart new life.

Sarah Conrad After a four and a half year relationship abruptly ended with a phone call, Sarah was left with a diamond ring and a broken heart. Her only source of solace? The cross.

Jess Dubois Each of us has a wilderness, a desert into which God will call us...and it will happen at the most inconvenient time.

Someone was thinking of us. And that's a beautiful truth, and that white envelope and the contents within its belly is a beautiful proof.

It is time to get angry. Fuel is continuously added to my fire. I am angry that so many women are struggling with their self worth, and destroying their body, health and soul while they cope. I am not mad at the women, but I am mad at Satan for telling these lies over and over again.

Everybody has different standards of modesty, and – wait for it – that’s okay. The Church has never defined what types of clothing are acceptable, and for good reason.

Hit with depression and a sense of living two different lives, Topher Darragh struggled to become a man who was "fully alive," but four years at a Catholic university and a tattoo changed all of that. Read Topher's encouragement to imitate Christ at college...and risk it all for His love.

By Emily Rogers The devil is constantly saying those same words to us to imprison us within the confines of our minds.  He spits in our face the very same foul, seething words, “You think you can, but you can’t!” 

Beth Puleo Her world was rocked when a persistent brain tumor kept fighting against her as a child, but Beth fought harder. Radiation poisoned her, doctors told her she wouldn't live, and she had to quietly watch her father die as her own life seemed to be slipping away.