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Encouragement for every season of lifeBBQ Coleslaw
It’s grilling season, and what goes better with your charred meat than coleslaw? BBQ coleslaw! This is not the stuff of fried chicken fast food restaurants, it’s thick, chunky, and even a great addition to the top of your burger. Ingredients: 1 small head of red...
The Peony Principles
I love flowers. Each spring I wait expectantly for my perennials to bloom and for my annuals to grow. All summer long, I watch and gather hope and courage from their beauty and hardy existence. When pounding rains come, I find myself hoping that my little flowery...
Five Essential Tips to Engage Volunteers
Leaders resemble vessels. We have a limited capacity (yes, it is true!). Consider a ten-ounce bowl. It is impossible for it to contain eleven ounces of water. Once that bowl reaches capacity, additional water forces some to flow over the edge. The same is true of our...
My Summer Bucket List — Kids Edition
Did you see the grown-up version of a summer bucket list I made to help me have a more intentional summer? Hopefully you got some new ideas and inspiration to write up a list that helps you get focused, too. I also wanted to make up a list of fun ideas we all might...
When You Can’t Forget What Someone Said
Tracing letters on the floor with the tips of my scuffed shoes, I sat in a folding chair, my 7-year-old self waiting patiently for my parents to finish their conversations. The evening meeting at Family Camp had ended, and most people had filtered out of the building...
My Big Floral Couch
I am a thrift store junkie. There’s something about walking the aisles of a store, not knowing what you’ll find buried within its shelves, that just speaks to the inner treasure hunter in me. Recently, I bought my most favorite treasure of all. I wasn’t looking for...
My Summer Bucket List
I've never been much of a planner - I love living with intention, yet organization and planning are not so much my jam. But since I aspire toward more purposeful living, for the first time, I did make a bucket list for the year. I love the intentionality that making a...
Dad, You are Enough
Recently I wrote an article about how moms are enough -- just as they are. Did you think I had forgotten about you, dads? I haven’t. Guess what? The same goes for you! I know you sometimes want to come off like you don’t deal with insecurities attached to this gig...
Frosted Jars
Frosted Jar So, I was making a gift this week and realized some of you may be interested in a little DIY! After making these jars, I have filled them with fresh flowers, branches, candles, colorful Christmas bulbs, autumn leaves, etc. The look is only limited to your...
Why Marriage Works for Us
This past April marked my ninth wedding anniversary. It got me thinking about all the ways I have appreciated my husband in the past decade, all the things I want my daughters to know about their dad when searching for their own spouse. And although I'm rarely sappy...
