Kindness comes in many forms. Kindness is quiet at times. Simple. Kindness steals in on silent tiptoes. Kindness cheers loudly sometimes! Kindness smiles bravely. Kindness is found in everyday extras. Kindness is there in kind words, glad smiles, shared tears. Kindness pops up in a text on my phone and an email in […]
Three Journals For Summer Study
It’s Three on Thursday……..Linking up over here with Carole……… I shared these three journals in my Instagram stories on Tuesday and I’m going to share them here! If you’d like a new journal to use for your summer Bible study, here’s three you can check out! Summer is a swirl of busy….of different schedules…of […]
Pages and Projects {365 Trivia Twist Questions and Brave Mom, Brave Kids}
I have three books to share with you today. Can you believe May is almost to leave us? I can’t. As always. 🙂 The months move so quickly and ALWAYS leave me about two months behind. {Oh, and I planned to post this post last week…..you can hop over here and read why I didn’t……..It […]
Marriage is Sharing Life
Marriage is sharing. Marriage is sharing hot drinks, inside jokes and laughter. Marriage is doing little I-love-you things, knowing what makes the other person happy, sharing in a life, creating a life together moment by moment. Marriage is sharing dreams, giving up dreams, making sacrifices. It’s a whole lot of give-and-take. It’s taking walks, taking […]
It Happened Like This
It Happened Like This. I had it planned in my head and a little bit on my planner. I’d written “Pages and Project post” in black ink on my planner page on the column for Wednesday morning. I have a couple of books that are a bit overdue for review. Not really, except for […]
Ten Authors With New Books I’m Excited About in 2018
Here are ten books that have either already released in 2018 or are releasing in 2018! And let me rephrase that. It’s actually ten authors, but more than ten books……… I like to sometimes search and poke around on Amazon and discover new books that will be releasing! Yay for fun finds! I was going […]
On Writing
I used to think that maybe I could only write about something once I had perfected it. I don’t think that anymore. For one thing, I’m never going to aspire to the persona of perfection I long to become. Jesus lives in me, but my human selfishness struggles in me and I won’t entirely escape […]
Mug and Teacup Exchange Spring 2018
It’s Teacup and Mug Exchange Reveal time! Yay!! Last fall I joined in on this teacup exchange for the first time. You can find my post about it right over here. I signed up again for the spring exchange and this time I chose to do the teacup exchange and the mug exchange. That means […]
Pages and Projects {The 4 Wills of God, Great & Small Bible, The Life-Giving Parent}
Whew! I’m taking a deep breath as I sit down and type this. The last couple of weeks and last month have been fun and busy and a flurry of prep and busy and plans and busy and baking and busy and looking forward to and busy and gathering and busy and outside work and […]
Joyous New Day and Celebration
The screen door stands open and the birdsong chatter wafts cheerily inside my walls. It’s a glorious morning. A deer bounds through our thirsty-yet-green field of wheat. The sun edges, edges, then bounds above the horizon in a joyous new-day way. I creak open the screen door and tiptoe across my porch and […]
With Jesus I Shall Meet
I lean my head against the couch and curl up my feet, My Bible lays upon my lap, With Jesus I shall meet. A cozy blanket ’round me wrapped, As I with Him retreat. I lift the cover of His Word, the pages rustle thin, I turn to Proverbs, then to John, Life-giving words […]
Gratitude on Tuesday and Favorite Books Too
Tuesday holds the ordinary, the everyday, and the small. Give us courage to sit on a bench and listen to the secrets small things have to teach us. ~ Emily P. Freeman the • delightful daily details • docket…. {the gratitude list} pink pastels painted across the horizon tips this morning and shimmering in […]
Floating on God’s Grace
I tap the app for YouTube and I type Casting Crowns by the blinking cursor in the search box. I can’t think of the name of their song I’m searching for. I scroll a bit and then, there it is! Thrive. I tap the box and tap the play and in as many seconds the music […]
The Happy List + Thankful Thursday
{the happy list} #thankfulthursday glass glitter • the way a favorite teacup or mug feels in my hands • teacup exchanges • completing a dreaded task • coffee and comfy clothes • What favorite beverage would add happy to your day and happy list today?! {hot or cold} AND spring is coming! It was […]
Cake Pop Moments
Time is sacred because it is God’s gift to us. ~ Amanda Bible Williams Some days, I find myself wishing time away. Willing it move faster. Other moments find me trying to grasp time’s coattails and plant my feet and tug-of-war it into staying still. Some days it sounds so simple to be a […]
Wherein I Think About Dreams and Perspective and Unicorns and Goats
“Dream Big” my Rae Dunn mug tells me as I wrap my fingers around its warmth on this April morning. 23 degrees the thermometer says. The morning sky beckons me to tiptoe onto the porch and capture it as I can. The #SimplyTuesday coloring book, laying open on my coffee table reminds me of this message, “We […]