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Life and Inspiration category is our answer to the everyday dilemmas we all face and the wisdom we need to rise above the difficulties.
We know you get that every day of your life you make choices.
We’ve learned that the hard way sometimes, and sometimes, well, we get lucky and the stars align and courage swells and life is good.
We want to share all that with you. Our Life and Inspiration blog posts are to encourage ourselves as much as you. I sometimes go back and read what I’ve written and get all like, “Did I write that? Or did some blessed elf come by and write this for me while I wasn’t paying attention?”
Check out this category to read our reminiscing and pondering and sharing our hearts.
Want to know how to regain your sense of smell after Covid? This essential oils training could help you smell the roses again. We don’t usually write about health on our Handmade Stationery website, but when the whole world goes through a pandemic like we faced this past year, health becomes a dominant issue….
Bringing our baby girl home began some of the best months of my life. Kim’s Story, Chapter Four. Now we were the perfect nuclear family of the ’90s. Our family felt complete: 2 sons and now, a daughter. Not only was Kim our first daughter, she was the first daughter in my husband’s whole…
‘Ink Re-Cap 139. Sketches, scribbles and inklings about life. Long awaited products arrive, the search for a new PC continues, and lunch out with my birthday people. There is one thing to celebrate this week besides July 4th at the beginning. It’s the 10th this Saturday, and that means July is almost half over….
God’s Creation Story Day Five:God created the Fish and Birds.Day 5, Day 5, God made birds and fish alive!Children’s Bible Lesson Printable with crafts included. On Day 4 God created the sun to shine brightly during the day. Then, when it gets dark, He made the moon and stars to shine in the night sky….
‘Ink Re-Cap 138.Sketches and inklings of our week:back from vacation (sigh)and catching up with business. What is it about coming home from vacation? While you’re away and enjoying life your mind buzzes with everything you want to do when you get back home. Then you get home, and everything goes flat. You lost the inspiration…
Choose Facts Over Feelings: Your emotions can lie to you. Validate feelings by proving the facts with God’s indelible Truth in His Word. It was getting later and later and all of us were beyond weary. Our five year old was inconsolable. In spite of at least 3 hugs from each his daddy…
‘Ink Re-Cap 137.Sketches and inklings of our week.Vacation! Family Reunion on the farmand back to the desert for real life again. From Friday to Friday we escaped the heat, the rising humidity of coming monsoon season, and its accompanying real feel of higher than the actual number temperature. We packed our bags and flew out…
In times of desperation, the highest form of worship is a Lament of Praise. David was our best example of this. “ You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy. ” Jane Marczewski aka Nightbirde And she knows about hard. Writer Anne Voskamp featured Jane on her…
‘Ink Re-Cap 136. Random inklings of our week. VBS overload. When will summer be over? Trip planning. Gold foiling. Fridge quote of the week. When you live your life as a VBS factory there comes a time when you want all the Bible Story books and cotton balls and Jonah whales and craft sticks…
Teaching Bible School this summer?Here’s some VBS Attendance Chart Ideasto name them one by one, like the song says about blessings. What makes teaching Bible School fun for you? If you teach the youngest students, you probably feel as if you’re babysitting with a Christian theme. Lower Grade students love learning about God, but it…
‘Ink Re-Cap 135. Sketches and inklings of our week. Messy mailings, lost items, changing over to a new phone. Not my favorite 7 days ever. This is what I said last week: We L-O-V-E this time of year! And it’s true, but… not when things go missing, your schedule gets re-manipulated out of control,…
The hardest day of your life. Can you actually learn to celebrate it, and then, with Godly faith in practice, call it good? Find more comfort in hardest times… Postponed Living; A Study of Drusilla of Acts 24 Sticky Words: How To Delete Negative Words Terrible Mistakes Do Happen: How Can We Survive Them?…