Some of the most beautiful things in life are the things we can’t hold in our hands. Things like beauty and laughter and amazement and memories and golden days and the gift of time and kisses and adventures and successes and awe and accomplished tasks and salvation and wonder and delight and kind deeds and […]
Pages and Projects {The Storm Tossed Family and The Seven Deadly Friendships}
Here are a couple of books I’ve recently received to review. I’ve definitely enjoyed things about both of them. First up is The Storm-Tossed Family. Family and relationships. We all have them. And they mean a great deal to us. As I’ve said, over and over and over and over……………. 😉 I really like reading […]
Happiness Begets Gratefulness and Gratefulness Begets Happiness
I find happiness in gratefulness. This isn’t to say I’m always happy. Or always grateful. I’m not. I’m neither ALL the time nor even close to acquiring these attributes as I’d really like to. Yet. Gratefulness begets Happiness. And. Happiness begets gratefulness. They grow together casting a sweet fragrance in the pathway of everything they […]
In This House
In This House………. …there are quite often crumbs on the floors and dust in the corners. …you will find at least a few dirty dishes piled in the sink……..and sometimes a whole teetering stack! …items rest quietly on the counter waiting their return to rightful homes. …there is always dirty laundry. …often, a basket of […]
The GraceLaced Planner
Let’s look inside this planner today! It’s the GraceLaced Planner and it has some really fun features! Browse through….. Do you have a favorite planner? I was excited to see GraceLaced launch this planner! Its neutral colortones are lovely and soothing and it has handlettered verses before each month and Ruth’s beautiful floral artwork along the […]
Holy Roar CD Giveaway
A very fun thing for this Friday, friends! Holy Roar arrives filled with music and passion and praise. It’s a brand-new CD from Chris Tomlin and not only is it available wherever music is sold, we have a giveaway for a CD today! A description I received about HOLY ROAR: the freedom, the experience, the […]
Indivisible Movie and Giveaway
This new movie arrives in theaters ToMoRRoW!!! AND we have a giveaway beginning ToDaY for 2 Fandango ticket codes to use to go and watch this film! WootWoot! {tickets only good for this particular movie} Indivisible Here’s a synopsis of the movie shared with me ~ “INDIVISIBLE is based on the extraordinary true story of […]
Wherein I Remind Myself Of No Guarantees and Every Good Day
Back in June, Father’s Day finds us in our favorite place. Home. We aren’t all-out celebrators of holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and Valentine’s Day and on the list goes. Sometimes we notice and we do something a bit celebratory. Other times we nod at the day and blow it a well-wish of […]
Looking For a Planner?
Are you thinking about a new planner or looking for one? Or are you like me and love to check out new planners, read about them and look at them? 🙂 IF so, this is a post for YOU!!! I love trying out a variety of planners. Now, I’m not the planner-perfect-person. I doubt I’ve […]
Hooray For A Photo Canvas Giveaway
Making me happy right now…………this shelf of color and artwork and a photo canvas and memories and favorites! You know I love books and pictures and bright, happy colors and creativity and this shelf is holding it all at the moment! Yay! 🙂 The stack of books are Thornton W. Burgess’ books weaving tales about […]
Make the Memories Because We Can
In the rhythms and routines of life, The day-to-day, The simple tasks. The have-tos and must-be-dones. Along the edges and cracks. We find ourselves creating. Creating though we do not see it forming at the time. We mold memories. Traditions arise and unfold in the threads and edges. Unplanned, really. One day we tell. We […]
Wherein I Muse About Hay Bales and Gleaning and Ruth
I sat in the back of my Yukon last Wednesday evening, feet on the bumper, as my good farmer man wrestled with a baler and a belt. . I gazed across the field and breathed in deep the scent of mown feed that the baler had been hungrily ingesting and compressing into round bales, before […]
Ten Super Simple Ways to Be a Pleasant Person
I think about the character I desire to have and the type of person I want to be. I miss the mark a lot, but it inspires me and does me good to think about the attributes I want in my life. This year my focus words have been a combination and intertwining of […]
Reminded of My Freedom
{pumpkins available from Sew a Fine Seam} Galatians 5:1 ~ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. . May bondage be broken, Words of life spoken. Oppression removed. Forever live loved. Dwelling in You! […]
Review and Giveaway for the Devotional Bible From (In)Courage
I found a package on my porch last Friday and guess what was inside?! I was pretty confident I knew what it was going to be, as I’d been anticipating its arrival AND the little detail of a brown box tightly taped with packaging tape bearing the words (in)courage Devotional Bible across it! 🙂 […]
Pages and Projects {ThoughtFull and A Fearless Leader}
Yesterday was the release day for this beautiful storybook about Deborah. I love the painting type illustrations and the vibrant colors in these books. This is a third in the series from Called and Courageous Girls. The other two are A Brave Big Sister about Miriam and An Extraordinary Teacher about Priscilla. You’ll find pictures […]
Thank-You Lord For Listening
Here I am, Lord ~ me ~ and the page and my pen and my heart and my words to pour out to You — thank-you, Lord, that I never have to wait for You to show up. I just must show up and You’re ready to settle in with me and listen. Thank […]
