Just a short book review today of a tool that helped me with my mindset toward clutter. Gail Blanke is a life coach who helps people clear out their lives of all sorts of stuff. She wrote this book, Throw Out 50 Things, as a guide to help readers walk through many areas of life […]

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I’m so good at making excuses to keep from disciplining myself. I’m so good that I don’t even realize I’m making excuses until I stop and evaluate what’s keeping me from getting started. As we’ve been healing this year, one thing that has helped me so much is recognizing that habits are created both by […]

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Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about […]

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Book lover confession here. 99.5% of the time I judge a book by its cover. And I have been known to buy a book JUST FOR ITS TITLE. This book makes that list. Actually, several of those books make this series. So…maybe the principle of that saying isn’t so accurate after all. I picked this […]

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One day while perusing the library, I discovered the organization section and the geek in me freaked out a little inside and I nearly checked out the whole row of books. I’ll write about one that I found and loved in a different post, but today I wanted to share the overall principle I’ve learned […]

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Christy Nockels Last Christmas, I discovered a podcast that I loved by the singer/songwriter Christy Nockels. She’s been making music for a long time but I had never heard of her. She was releasing a Christmas album for which she wrote mostly new songs and every song had a sweet story. For one song, she […]

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“Life doesn’t begin when our imperfections end.” Lara Casey I am a reluctant gardener. Growing up gardening was an everlasting chore that kept me away from my books and out in the hot Kansas wind. (Oh, don’t worry, I figured out how to snap beans and read at the same time!) I tried to grow […]

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Podcasts. The not new, new thing. They’ve been on the scene for around 15 years but the general public are just now really getting into them, and new podcasts pop up left and right. I have a dozen I listen to, and a dozen more I’m interested in. Days are long and full of time […]

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Writing about our journey to fruitful living wouldn’t be complete without bringing up some of the music that’s been such a part of our family life lately. My husband, worship pastor at our church, educates me on all the great music in the world, so I can hardly take credit, but I wanted to highlight […]

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My favorite new spiritual tool in 2017 has been my prayer journal from ValMarie Paper. I wanted to highlight it just a bit during this series because it’s been helping me get back to making prayer and gratitude a regular practice in my life. ValMarie has created multiple journals and sells them on her website. […]

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