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BlissDom: Your Bliss • Your Blog • Your Conference
At the end of this month I will attend my third BlissDom Conference in Nashville. Last year's conference was wonderful. I got to meet some of my blog buddies in real life for the first time, like Marsha, and reconnect with others, like Heather and Melissa. Several of...
31 Days of Encouragement: Hospitality {Day 6}
Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. ~1 Peter 4:9-10 Hospitality is an area where I struggle. An "everything has to be perfect"...
31 Days of Encouragement: Bearing One Another’s Burdens {Day 5}
[Do you need community in your life? Read my family's story today at (in)courage about Building Community in an Unexpected Place!] Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. ~Galatians 6:2 The Lord tells us that when we serve one another, we serve...
31 Days of Encouragement: First Fruits {Day 4}
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. ~Proverbs 3:9-10 Honoring the Lord with your first fruits is easier for me in some areas than...
iHeartFaces: Best Face Photo of 2010
This week's theme at iHeartFaces is "Best Face Photo of 2010." If I had to choose a photo from 2010 that is most compelling to me, it would be this one of my youngest daughter at a Braves' game this summer. We were on the very top row of the stadium, safely tucked...
31 Days of Encouragement: Love Your Enemies {Day 3}
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil...
31 Days of Encouragement: Fear {Day 2}
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. ~2 Timothy 1:7 "I rock at karaoke," I wrote on the piece of paper, smiling at the audacity of my "false fact" in a guessing game at a recent Christmas party. The truth is, it...
31 Days of Encouragement: Biblical Resolutions {Day 1}
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest...
31 Days of Encouragement
Are you familiar with the "31 Days" blog series? It started with ProBlogger's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. In October, the Nester organized a group of women who put together another fabulous 31 Days series. In the month of January I am participating in 31 Days of...
Ending the Year with a Flurry of Activity
Today is the first day in a week that I'll spend a relatively quiet day at home, as quiet as a house that now contains nine people and a continual Just Dance 2 wii party can be. Here's what's we've been doing: Last Wednesday my oldest daughter and I went to Annie's...
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