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...
Ready to Create A Travel (with God) Journal?
If you're ready to start your own travel journal, buckle up sister! I've kept many types of journals over the years -- prayer, gratitude, health, etc. -- but when I cracked open my first "Travel Journal" in January, life changed. I first read about a travel journal in Allen Arnold's The Story of With, a book mentioned in a past post, Three Books I'm Reading This Winter. It reads: "Those brave...
Searching for A New Morning Devotional? Win My Favorite Here!
Yep, I gotcha covered! That is if you're not into full-on fluffy, feel-good words that drip thicker than syrup but leave the soul empty, hungry inside. Give me Truth in a relatable way and God will do the rest. Because it matters, right? Devotionals are an investment. Not only do they cost money (unless you win this copy!), they also become a companion of sorts. It's why pages that start...
While You Wait Outside Hospital Doors for a Loved One
It's a helpless feeling, isn't it? Leaving loved ones on the stoop of hospital doors, entrusting healthcare workers to fill in the gaps we want to fill but can't. Lives lost, dream weddings postponed, jobs eliminated, and the inability to enter health facilities with loved ones being admitted, are just some of the situations we find ourselves in these days. Several weeks ago, my stepmom took...
Engaging Our Five Senses this Summer + Starbucks Giveaway!
Afternoon storms, buzzing bumblers, and Ricky the lizard give it away. Summer is rounding the corner. And although this is the season known for relaxation, it can become one of the busiest in no time flat. If I'm not careful, my heart can become a hurried one, drying out quicker than the beach towels sunning on my deck after an afternoon swim. When I hear the edges of my heart begin to...
Ten Ways to Show-Up for Others this Summer!
Because that's what we do, right? As our nation slowly unfolds into a new normality, we're all navigating what it means to go to church, to gather with friends, and to eat out {thanks to Chick-fil-A, I conquered this one early on.} But here's one truth we know: We can help others draw closer to Christ from behind our doors or in person. That's the beauty of the show-up. ...
One Simple Way to Engage with Scripture (& A Color-Me Download!)
Reading Scripture is valuable. Engaging Scripture changes a person. I know because it changed me. A babe in Christ at the age of twenty-seven, I only knew the basic Bible stories: Jesus on the cross, Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and The Ten Commandments, thanks to Charlton Heston. Granted, those basic stories are some of the most beautiful, but God used Precept Ministries and Kay...
Engaging Our Five Senses this Spring!
Never was Spring more welcomed than this past March. Longer lit days, the promise that when one season closes, another will open. I wonder if we'll notice more this spring as we work, play, and do school from home. If the necessary pause in our society will heighten our awareness to God's goodness in ways we all experience -- salvation, biblical community, a baby's birth, nature -- as well as...
One Way to Answer When Wisdom Calls + Journal Giveaway!
Do you hear her? "Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?" (Proverbs 8:1 NIV) Perhaps it's because I followed unwise whispers for my first twenty-seven years (and saw the devastation of those choices) that now, I can't lean in far enough to hear wisdom's voice. God says if we lack wisdom we can ask for it, and He will give it generously and without fault. (James 1:5) He...
Cathy Baker
Join the Creative Pauses Facebook Community
I Recommend Fistbump Media!
