Carter, Alison: - Alison Carter is an author, blogger, mentor, and speaker, and she is intent on finding the beauty in mundane moments and the blessings in the storms. As a broken woman mended by the love of Jesus, she believes that every experience and lesson learned entwine together to create a story worth telling, and she hopes to encourage women to live out their own redemptive stories. Alison is also the founder of Life on Granite Ridge, an online ministry where she shares honest reflections on her life as a wife, mother, and step-mom, and writes about the challenges of living with an autoimmune disease. She joyfully serves alongside her husband as a marriage mentor, and she is active in a variety of ministries.