I blinked and 30 Days of Thankfulness is here again!
Whoa! I blinked and it’s time for our 30 Days of Thankfulness tradition! New to it? Here’s the mini backstory: I introduced this November drive to my readers almost two decades ago. (That timeline feels crazy, but it’s true!) The idea is to spend the days leading up to Thanksgiving demonstrating our gratitude, rather than simply expressing it. Over the years we’ve supported a range
The A-List is Draining the life out of you. Here’s how to get it back!
Hey friend, I'm meeting myself coming and going on the road right now, but you are never far from my mind. Honest! I'm always asking the Lord for ways to add value to your life, to ease your load, to make you chuckle, but most of all, to help you discover the abundance of Christ Jesus. And not because I think I've arrived. Goodness no,
Laughter, Road Trips, and a Podcast Tutorial for our Times
Happy November to you! I'm smiling as I type those words because the season of gratitude is upon us and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm counting my blessings and naming them one by one. High on my list is the good medicine recommended to us in Proverbs 17:22 -- LAUGHTER! As you've probably heard me say once or ten hundred times if you've
Choosing our Way Forward
Hey friends, thinking aloud and thought I'd share
A Grand Plan for our 30 Days of Thankfulness Drive! Will you join us?
*Just WOW! Y'all are incredible! Please note the update at the bottom of the post, and THANK YOU!* Welcome to our annual 30 Days of Thankfulness Drive. If you've participated in the past you know our goal is to come together as a community to live out our gratitude as we head into the holidays, instead of merely expressing it with memes and quotes. For close to
Grab your new FREEBIE and meet Marisa!
The beloved farmer says a person starts reading at one end of our house, and reads straight through to the other. The man has a point. I do so love words! I told you about a host of free Thanksgiving printables here and I've already heard from so many of you who printed them and are enjoying them. And well, you know that spurs me
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Fourteen, the conclusion
Here we are, at our last day together on this journey to learn how to quit grasping and live grateful lives. I do hope you have found some takeaways that will help you walk into this holy season with your eyes on Christ, that your heart may be full of treasure that no amount of money can buy. Surely, there is no better place to
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Thirteen
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Twelve
We’ve looked at Paul’s example of gratitude and we’re about to look at other of his admonitions for us to be thankful, but first I want to say something about expressing thanksgiving. I wouldn’t dream of making an over-arching ruling here, but I’ll share my opinion and experience on whether or not it is important to voice our prayers, our acknowledgement, our thanksgivings, aloud. While I
Giving Thanks, a Christmas Adventure – Day Eleven
I believe Paul learned that living in ongoing thanksgiving and acknowledgment of what was his through Christ opened him to the contentment available through communion with God— just as we established that the fellowship table of thanksgiving over the sacrifice of Christ nourishes us. Amen? Amen. Let’s examine the gratefulness teachings of Paul. Paul’s two major categories of gratefulness: 1) He was always thanking the Father for