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Mary A. HornerAuthor · Spiritual Strategist
Author · Spiritual Strategist · Founder

Rediscovering the purpose you were already given.

Mary A. Horner writes for people who sense there is more waiting for them than the life they have been managing. After twenty-five years in corporate America, she followed a different calling — and now writes and guides others toward healing, restoration and transformation.

Two published books Founder of SpiritUsLord and Edify You Speaking · book clubs · interviews
Hope
Clarity
Healing
Restoration
Identity
Purpose
Legacy
Beyond the page

The work continues off the page.

Mary is the founder of two efforts that carry the same purpose as the books.

SpiritUsLord

Founded by Mary to nurture hearts and deepen identity — faith and vision brought together in one place.

Edify You

Built to help people live with intention, purpose and love: the practical side of what the books describe.

In progress · The Spirit Led Companion Series

The Seven Formation Movements.

The shape of the companion series Mary is writing now. They are movements rather than steps, and they run in order — each one makes room for the next.

MOVEMENT 01

Hope awakens the heart

We begin to believe that God is present and something new is possible.

MOVEMENT 02

Clarity reveals the path

We learn to see ourselves, our stories, and our circumstances in the light of God's truth.

MOVEMENT 03

Healing restores the wounded heart

We bring pain, fear, shame, and false beliefs into God's compassionate presence.

MOVEMENT 04

Restoration renews the whole person

We begin rebuilding our thoughts, habits, relationships, boundaries, and ways of living.

MOVEMENT 05

Identity reveals who we are becoming in Christ

We learn to live from God's truth rather than old wounds, labels, or expectations.

MOVEMENT 06

Purpose becomes faithful living

We offer God what is already in our hands and respond to the work entrusted to us in this season.

MOVEMENT 07

Legacy carries God's love forward

The fruit of our companionship with God becomes a gift to our families, communities, and future generations.

Recent work

Two books, one journey.

Both are written to be walked through rather than simply read — less like homework, more like a quiet conversation.

Cover of Spirit Led: A Healing Journey through Spiritual Growth by Mary A. Horner
Spirit Led — A Healing Journey through Spiritual Growth. An invitation to intentional introspection — uncovering the gifts already placed in you, and the purpose they were given for. Published by Covenant Books · ISBN 9798886443264. Available at Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play and Barnes & Noble.
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Cover of Spiritual Edification: A Powerful Journey to Personal Growth by Mary A. Horner
Spiritual Edification — A Powerful Journey to Personal Growth. Healing, restoring and transforming you — a practical companion for the work of becoming whole. ISBN 9798314507186. Available at Amazon and major booksellers.
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Her story

Twenty-five years in, she went a different way.

“I write not as someone who has arrived, but as a fellow traveler who has known seasons of clarity and confusion, healing and waiting, purpose and rest. These words were lived before they were written.”

Mary grew up in Philadelphia with an appetite for adventure and travel that never quite left her. Her working life was built in rooms that reward precision — clinical research, management, human resources — across more than two decades in corporate America.

Then she followed a calling out of it, toward a simpler and more deliberate life, and toward the work of guiding other people through healing, alignment and spiritual renewal.

What she brings to that work is unusual. The instincts are pastoral, but the training is analytical: someone who spent a career on process, evidence and people, now writing about purpose. It is why the books read as roadmaps rather than sentiment.

“As Christians, God has placed within each of us unique gifts, divine seeds of purpose waiting to bloom. This book is an invitation to that awakening, a guide to rediscovering your purpose.” — Mary A. Horner

Bring Mary to your group, church or event.

For speaking, book club visits, interviews or a conversation about the work — reach out and Mary will get back to you personally.

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