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beat the blahs

Love Your Ordinary: Backyard Beauty

February 27, 2014 by Amelia

Congratulations to Ibelisse who won the copy of Carols Kent’s new book Unquenchable! You still have time to enter the giveaway for Susie Finkbeiner’s new novel My Mother’s Chamomile. Enter on this post! A walk through our local botanical gardens was just what my winter-weary soul needed a couple weekends ago. As we traipsed the […]

Filed Under: beat the blahs, Doing Life Together, Family, winter Tagged With: beat the blues, family, nature, ordinary

Learning contentment in the cold

February 13, 2014 by Amelia

I rub my hands together hoping the friction will warm them. The thermostat blinks 70, but I’m freezing.The teakettle heats on a red burner. I wait for the whistle to call me over for a cup of tea. Or hot chocolate. Or maybe just to fill a mug with nothing but hot water. More than […]

Filed Under: beat the blahs, faith in action Tagged With: contentment, encouragement, faith, winter

What’s filling your mind?

March 11, 2013 by Amelia

Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Philippians 4:8 MSG Anyone else have spring fever? Ready for spring break? Hitting that low […]

Filed Under: beat the blahs, faith in action, running Tagged With: beat the blues, encouragement, faith, running, seasonal affective disorder, winter

The valley

May 6, 2012 by Amelia

Somehow, I had forgotten that the valley always follows the mountain. Seasoned writers and friends warned me. I thought I was prepared. Yet, I find myself skidding down a rocky slope after turning in the book manuscript. After a few days of telling Kedron, “I just don’t know what’s wrong with me! I guess I’m […]

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Blessed & Loved & a giveaway

February 16, 2012 by Amelia

The other day the doorbell rang and I saw a package on the porch with my name on it from DaySpring. I can’t even tell you how much I love packages and cards that come in the mail with that flower-y DaySpring logo. Especially on dreary winter days where nothing seems to be going as […]

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Staying Steady: Run 1,000

January 15, 2012 by Amelia

Last week, I posted at Circle of Friends about how one of my goals for 2012 was to stay more consistently disciplined in all areas of my life, with new daily habits of discipline as opposed to catch-up habits. I have a pattern, as I do when I drive, to hit the gas, then coast, […]

Filed Under: beat the blahs, running, Story Girl, winter Tagged With: discipline, running

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