Such a delight! I’m absolutely fantabulously pleased to bring you this devotional today, from my friend Jenifer Metzger. Joyful, Patient, Faithful: A 90-Day Devotional for Mom For several years, I’ve collaborated with Jenifer for the Christmas Blessing Giveaway and Summer Blessing Giveaways, if you’ve entered those. Jenifer shares book and Bible giveaways on her blog […]
ESV Ruth Chou Simons Artist Series Journaling Bible From Crossway
Look what we have today! It’s a Bible giveaway.I’ve been privileged to offer several Bible giveaways over the last four years and I’m always delighted for the opportunity. I so enjoy photographing each Bible. This Bible is new at Crossway in a set named Artist Series. Hop over here to see all the cover options […]
His Name Is Holy
Luke 1:46-50 ~ “And Mary said:My soul praises the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, because He has looked with favor on the humble condition of His servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed, because the Mighty One has done great things for me, and […]
Hope Infused Music
Three of my favorite musicians/groups: Andrew PetersonCasting CrownsMercy Me Here’s the commonality they share ~ They sing real. They speak authentic words. They talk about worry and struggles and fears. They tell of doubt, even despair. They acknowledge life, and how it hurts and happens and hurls hard things at our heads. Then they press […]
Of Children and Cookies and Such
As I walked through our snow-powdered woods the other day, I began to muse about a few of my favorites and create a mental list in my head. I’d baked cookies and was thinking of books. Children’s books, in particular. I had to chuckle as I noticed a connecting thread running through it all. Here’s […]
Hope Come to Us
Seeking God. Sitting with Him. Considering the Word made flesh. Wrapped right up in baby form. Hope come to us. Innocent. Needy. Vulnerable. Helpless. Completely reliant on a mother and a father for feedings and changings and bundling and snuggling and singing over. He who sings over us, cooed up at his mama as she […]
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 […]
When Hope Is Long In Coming
There’s a beautiful batch of snowflakes filtering down outside my window this afternoon. They make me unabashedly happy. Big, glorious flakes of snow aren’t entirely common for my part of Kansas. It’s a bit like living in a snowglobe. The snow spells out Christmas, Advent, and cozy all swirled together. As I’m contemplating hope during […]
Hope Everlasting
A tear trickled down her cheek, past her nose, leaving a wet streak from tear duct to chin. The heaviness had been hovering, edging nearer until it draped around her like a dark suffocating blanket. Loneliness mocked and voices of inadequacy sniveled in derisive, biting anger. She shivered despite the stifling weight flung around her […]
Holy Land Illustrated Bible
I’m a homebody much, much, much of the time. I deeply love and appreciate cozy home. Thus, I’m not a world traveler nor have ever aspired to become one. Still, I do have a list of places I’d love to visit and Israel is one of them. On this note, I’m happy to announce……….. ToDaY, […]
Beautiful Word Coloring Bible For Girls
As the calendar counts off the days in November, I’ve been counting gratefulness AND I’ve been anticipating Christmas. As I anticipate, I’ve been contemplating the HOPE Christmastime represents. If I were asked to describe the season in one word, that would be the word right now. Christmas embodies hope.Christmas gives the best gift by offering […]
In Which We Look Inside the Inspire Prayer Bible
Bible study. Beauty. Bible Journaling. Interacting with the text. Coloring. Creativity. Focusing on prayer. Writing out prayers. This beautiful Inspire Prayer Bible brings them all together. I’m so happily delighted to bring us this Bible + a giveaway this week. Tyndale sent me these Bibles to review. There are so many lovely details and features […]
Though the Fig Tree Does Not Bud {Habakkuk Bible Study}
The words were beautiful.They spoke of such hope. Of deep faithfulness. Of choosing gratitude, despite.Perhaps they resonated because of my perchance to wince and complain, grumble and frown. The dishes had stacked up. While my back was turned. I’d only left the kitchen to lay wooden track in place and help my little son arrange […]
In Which I Muse About Assurance
Assurance could look like a signed contract. It might be in the number of place value holders stamped on our bank statement. Assurance may feel like meal plans or lesson plans, vacation plans or run-away-from-Nineveh-plans. Assurance sometimes disdainfully and smugly plants itself in the territory of how-right-I-am. Perhaps assurance comes in the form of a […]
A Simple Tuesday in 2020
On a simple Tuesday morning, in the midst of August, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty… I’m anticipating… • that life will not always be as it is today. In an upheaval and uncertainty of days. In a madness of strong opinions and fears on either end of the pendulum. In […]
Seven Feasts Bible Study
Hey friends! What are you looking forward to this week? I’ve told Matthew several times how strange I find it for this year to feel loooong in some ways, yet at the same time here we are closing July out already! I’m quite delighted to bring you a giveaway today for a new Bible study […]
