June has been spoiling us this week. It’s been sunshine and open windows and seventies with fifties at night, and we’re not even sure what to do with it!!! Some years, MANY years, June twelfth would find the thermometer hot and heavy with one hundred plus temperatures and the promise of combines soon droning through […]
Four Summer Bible Study Suggestions
Summer seems to be a mixture of lazy and busy battered together and set into the sunshine to bake! Long days, schedule change, and water games. High temps, quick sandwiches, and chicken on the grill.Hammock swingin’, flowers and vegetables growin’, and iced tea sippin’.I’ve found, for me, a shorter Bible study, less intense, yet still […]
Pages and Projects: {The Intimate Connection and Why God}
We’re opening pages today on a marriage book and a children’s book! Hooray! And there’s a Bookstack Giveaway going on in my last post to celebrate June and bring on summer! Hop over to enter! The Intimate Connection: Secrets to a Lifelong Romance by Dr. Kevin Lehman I’ve read some of Dr. Kevin Lehman’s other […]
Bring On Summer With a Bookstack Giveaway
Happy, happy June! 21 days until summer is official on the calendar and we have the longest day of the year, the most hours of daylight and sunlight of all the year!!! June is always spelled in my mind as B U S Y. Because H A R V E S T. 🙂 On a […]
Friendship Promises and Company Girl
Friends!!! Today, books about friendship! Both of these books are lovely, lovely gift books for the dear friends, sisters, mothers, daughters, aunts, cousins, women in our lives! They’re a beautiful way to voice our gratefulness to them and for them. In fact, they’d make a great replacement for a card in a gift! The first […]
Wherein I Discover a System For My Podcast Listening Needs
I’m a book girl. Real paper and ink and binding and cover all fashioned together into a book I can hold in my hands. {E-books, if I have to, but my true love is the hard copies!} I tell you this to say, “I like to read.” I love stories and I love to watch […]
Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too Book Giveaway
We have a giveaway for this children’s book today! It’s a beautiful day here in Kansas! Sunshine and perfect temps. My favorite kind of day! I love it when I can wear a hoodie and sandals together! 🙂 Two perfect combos……… A beautiful day + a fun giveaway AND A hoodie + flip-flops! 🙂 🙂 […]
Booksets: From Me To You Journals and Powerful Prayers For Your Son and Daughter
The usually-dry creek bed behind my house is full and overflowing well out of its bounds as I tap these words into this post! Late morning, yesterday, the clouds opened up and dumped out sheets of rain. I don’t even know an official amount, but over four inches. It was a beautiful rain, except for […]
Pages & Projects {Easter is Coming and Mended}
Easter is ComingLook at this board book! It’s absolutely gorgeous and it shares a wonderful message of the hope that “Easter is coming!” The book begins with Creation, shares the birth of Jesus and continues through to His death and the celebration of His resurrection. The artwork, details and colors are amazing. This is a […]
Dwelling, The Next Right Thing and Glorious Weakness
Books today, friends! Of course, it is! Because books are our friends! AND we find friends INSIDE the covers of our books. Sometimes in the characters. Sometimes in the authors. And a really cool thing about our internet age is the ability to virtually connect with our favorite authors and thank them for their words […]
Good News! It’s Easter! Board Book and Giveaway
We get to start the week off with a giveaway for this cute board book. Good News! It’s Easter! Newcomers! Here’s a Fun Fact about me……….I love cute children’s books of all sizes and styles! They’re absolutely so-much-fun! Long-time comrades………..you already are aware of this about me. 🙂 For any and all…….if you aren’t on […]
Covered and GraceFull
I mentioned yesterday morning as gray and rainy. WELL. THIS morning, was definitely all macho-competitive-bring-it about topping yesterday. And it totally did. It whooped. It gailed. It whistled fiercely. It rained and yammered and all-the-terrifically-fierce things. A whole lotta years ago, I wrote this post about WIND and my feelings haven’t changed. LET ME TELL […]
Ten Things I Have To Tell You About The Enneagram
It’s gray and rainy here this morning. The fog and mist has thickened around us all morning. I sent a few Bitmojis to friends and family depicting pouring rain and raining cats and dogs! Ha! I’m longing for spring and open windows and sunshine and birds chirping! Ah, well. It’s coming! Gray weather presents a […]
Pages & Projects {Devotedly}
Happy Wednesday! Happy March! I needed some bright and happy color in my life, so I started knitting a bright orange dishcloth. The color makes me very happy! We have a JORD gift certificate giveaway going on, if you’d like to go over here and enter. I tell you this, to jump into my next […]
Ten New Books I’m Excited About in 2019
Another list of ten books for this Tuesday, book friends! It is COLD in Kansas. “Cold” seems to be the case in many parts of the U.S. What’s the temp where you are? I’m excited about all these titles in 2019! They’ve either been released or are releasing in the next couple of months. I’ve […]
Suffering is Never For Nothing and Even If Not
Is there anyone alive who hasn’t suffered? Brand-new birth and entrance to this world carries a good deal of suffering with it, albeit joy as well. Yet, the suffering precludes the joy of arrival. We enter this world in the throes of pain and suffering, for mama and baby alike. The pains and pangs of […]