Today’s post comes from my friend Brenda Yoder who just released a book for parents titled Fledge: LaunchingYour Kids Without Losing Your Mind. It was my pleasure to not only endorse this book, but to also write the foreword for it (a first for me!). As a friend and mom who is a stage ahead of […]
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How to Pray When You’re Stressed Out {plus a giveaway!}
I’m excited to introduce you to my friend Jessie Clemence. I first met Jessie a few years ago at a writers conference. Not long after, we ended up on the planning committee for said conference together. We worked through some nerve-wracking, stressful situations. (Conferences are not easy to plan! Especially when you want to do […]
Homeward Bound – Guest Post and Giveaway
Guest post by Susie Finkbeiner. Be sure to leave a comment on this post to be entered in a drawing for her new novel A Song of Home, third in a trilogy about a young girl named Pearl Spence set in the 1930’s Dustbowl era. When I was a kid my mom often played her […]
Giving Thanks in Hard Times {Giveaway!}
My husband walked around my car, hunched down on his knees, then stood up with a sigh. “You need tires. At least 2. Maybe 4.” He lightly kicked the one in front of him for extra emphasis. On the hour drive home from my grandma’s place that afternoon, the car had sounded unusually loud, and […]
Control Girl – An Interview with Shannon Popkin {Giveaway}
I’m delighted to share this interview with Shannon Popkin, author of the newly released Control Girl Lessons on Surrendering Your Burden of Control from Seven Women in the Bible. Be sure to leave a comment on this post to be entered in a drawing for a giveaway of her book! Also Shannon is doing […]
Ten Reasons Why Families Who Say Grace Are Happier {giveaway}
It was my delight to endorse this beauty of a book – A Spoonful of Grace: Mealtime Blessings in Bite-Sized Pieces by Annette Hubbell. Two minutes is all you need to read these short little mealtime prayers with those who gather around your table. Hubbell included 366 prayers with a series of Sunday Graces […]