If, fifteen months ago my fairy godmother would have appeared in a swirl of glitter and twinkle lights and announced to me that this March I would find myself in Bluefield, West Virginia in the company of a beautiful group of writers and creators at Hopewords Conference, I could not have been more incredulous, amazed, […]
Keep At It
To all the creators and dreamers and makers and vulnerable people showing up to share their work, words, music. {and this is all of us, anyone breathing, because we all create in some way, all made to produce art of a myriad of types by our Creator} • A Word For You • Keep at […]
SRT Bible, Faithful Book & CD, Bible Tabs Giveaway
Nisi Dominus Frusta=Latin for: Without the Lord, Frustration.My Bible doesn’t promise a pain-free, problem-free, pressure-free life.But Jesus does give peace that passes understanding, a pouring out of hearts in prayer and protection walking through the valley..He offers faith to face the fear.Forgiveness for our folly.Friendship when forsaken.Contented fulfillment to combat creeping frustrations.Soothing frayed nerves in […]
Little Mole’s Christmas Gift
This Thursday brings us a super sweet book with a great big lesson in generosity and kindness. Little Mole’s Christmas Gift.Little Mole has found the absolutely perfect Christmas gift for his dear mama. But as he makes his journey home, he encounters his woodland friends who need a helping hand until his gift for mama […]
Listen + Light
As I ponder and praise Jesus’ coming as a baby, the coming of Christmas this year, and His return at the end of the age, here are a few ways, words, melodies, and moments lighting my life with hope and peace and gratefulness and reflection during December and Advent. 1. Lighting a candle on my kitchen island […]
The Hope of Further Up! Further In!
We awoke to the most gorgeous blanket of snow we’ve seen on our Kansas plains in a long while. Cedar branches powdered, porch posts piled, and my round outside table blanketed. I gazed in awestruck admiration out my front window. Venturing to the basement door, I flung it open for a few frosty pictures. Retreating […]
Christmas Under the Stars and Behold by Lauren Daigle
As November ends and December turns up on our calendars, I’m anticipating the Christmas season and HOPE! Hope is my focus word for this Advent season. Christmas and Jesus, the baby in the manger, is hope come to earth. What a gift! I have a playlist mix of Christmas songs and hymns on my iPod. […]
Advent Books and Reading
For several years, I’ve chosen a specific book {or books} to read for Advent and the Christmas season. When I had younger kiddos, we had a set of children’s books for Advent we delighted in reading. This year I have a small stack of reading I’ve been anticipating. Honestly, it’s probably too large. But I’m […]
Pages & Projects {Felt Party Hats and Little Mole’s Christmas Gift}
Happy October!We’ve been utterly and completely blessed with GOING-ON-THREE-WEEKS of absolutely gorgeous autumn weather. There’s been little wind, cool nights, and seventy to eighty degree days. It’s warmed right up several afternoons, but if I’ve closed the house up it stays cool enough and then I throw the front door and windows back open as […]
Savoring Christmas and a Christmas Blessing Cash Giveaway
A few ways I’m choosing to savor the Christmas season this year…..• I did some decorating in November and started listening to a Christmas playlist I have on my “ancient” iPod Nano. December becomes hectic enough with family get-togethers and travel, and I’ve learned I enjoy the Christmas season much more if I begin early. […]
Ten Ingredients For a Hello Kitty Doll Teaparty
If you’re interested in teaparties and dolls and fun snacks and love you some Hello Kitty, I have a party idea for you! 🙂 Here’s a list of ten ingredients, give or take, you’ll want when throwing your teaparty! Many of the ingredients are quite adaptable to your preferences, tastes, and people! NO. 1 ~ […]
The Glory of the Plan of God
Dear, dear Father, Thank you for all your good, good gifts. Help us, Lord, in your strength to fully live into today, this moment, pulling all the joy and happiness from it and seeing it in the people you have blessed us with. May we comprehend a tiny bit more the total unexplainable gift of […]
Ten Book Pairs For Gifting
A friend of a friend asked me about book suggestion gift ideas for our mutual friend and that’s all I needed to do some pairing! 🙂 I thought it would be fun to bring you some favorite book pair ideas of mine for your consideration! Add them to your personal library or use them for […]
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 […]
In Which I Think About Special Days and Friendship
I do not claim to understand life. The living and breathing and moving of it. The heart of it and soul in it and soul in us. Mystery this. How we live in the moments and the clock tick-tocks them away faster than we can say hickory-dickory-dock and wraps them up into memory packages for […]
We Never Outgrow the Blessing of an Act of Kindness
I looked forward to my birthday every summer with great anticipation. We’d choose our favorite foods or menu or meal. And we’d choose chocolate or white or yellow cake. Because as Julia Child says, “A party without a cake is just a meeting. My mother would bake up the cake in a 9×13 Pyrex and […]
Celebrating with a Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory Giveaway
It’s our last giveaway for July and it’s a very, very fun and happy one! Sew a Fine Seam is joining us today and giving away this pillow! Thank-you, thank-you Jill! Yay! {To new friends around here who may not know, Jill is my sister and she makes handcrafted and stitched pillows! She’s shared some […]
