Love… One Sip At A Time // A Valentine Tea Party
I started hosting tea parties in an older home propped as pretty as you please on the corner of a quiet street. A family of four in a two-bedroom, one-bath home made for a tight fit, and tea parties felt downright snug, but no one would change a thing. Some teas were scripture-based, and others celebrated holidays, but every time, the room filled with the scent of scones, floral tea, and...
Sharing Life Together…One Sip At A Time
Welcome, friend. I hope you'll pull up a chair and make yourself comfy while I'll pour us a cuppa tea. Imaginary tea, after all, is always special. How was your weekend? We headed to the NC mountains, my favorite place to be. The cottage where we stay transforms to an oasis. The clock goes on strike, the cookies have no calories, the air goes easy on these asthmatic lungs, and I...
Breathing New Life Into Our Time With God
Are you a creature of habit? Confession: I use the same coffee mug for my morning brew (it's 10 years old), enjoy almond butter toast every day by 7:30 a.m. and I use purple pens only for poetry. I also have the propensity to stick with the same routine when it comes to spending time with my Maker. The good thing about habits is that they provide predictability. The bad thing...
Sharing Life Together…One Sip At A Time
Welcome, friend. I hope you'll pull up a chair and make yourself comfy while I'll pour us a cuppa tea. Imaginary tea, after all, is always special. I'm asking God to STIR us, awakening us to His Word that we might allow it to STEEP deeply into our souls. As we take a moment to SIP on one word this week, my prayer is that it will move us to the point of action. So, how was your holiday...
Is “Morning Pages” for You?
OK, I just caught the typo in the above graphic and it sent shivers down my spine but then I realized it's hopefully probably intentional to get the point across that there's no room for perfectionism when doing Morning Pages. In this post a couple weeks back, I issued a challenge of sorts to see who might be interested in giving Morning Pages a try—and then I realized my...
Sharing Life Together, One Sip At A Time
Welcome, friend. I hope you'll pull up a chair and make yourself comfy while I'll pour us a cuppa tea. Imaginary tea, after all, is always special. I'm asking God to STIR us, awakening us to His Word that we might allow it to STEEP deeply into our souls. As we take a moment to SIP on one word this week, my prayer is that it will move us to the point of action. I don't know about you...
Three Sources for Refreshment This Summer
In celebration of all you summer-lovers out there here are three diverse ways to soak up the season for all it's worth. Enjoy! What I appreciate most about Ginger Harrington's recent post, 21 Ways to Refresh Your Spiritual Routine, is how each suggestion is simple, making them both doable and refreshing, especially during busy this season. Here are three of those ways: Declutter your...
Sharing Life Together…One Sip At A Time: Friendships
Welcome! Thanks for stopping by. Pull up a chair, make yourself comfy, and I'll pour us a cuppa tea. I wish we could physically sit across such a table together, but since most of us cannot, I created a summer tea time on Tuesday's just for us. We'll begin by asking God to stir us, awakening us to today's takeaway. My prayer is that He will take today's scripture and steep...
Why Writing from the Senses Makes Sense
You need not consider yourself a poet to appreciate sensory details in writing, whether it's poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc. They engage our minds, memories, and imagination. Drink in the details of this sensory-soaked example I found on the internet. Sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. It's all here: Grandmother Workman lurched over and grabbed the pale skin of Randal's thin...
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