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...
HOPE: 30 Days of Wonder Challenge
DAY 4: HOPE Nothing awakens wonder inside us like breathing hope into the hopeless. This morning ask God to awaken you to someone who others have given up on. Prayerfully consider how God may want to use you to impart hope and encouragement in this person's life. As you drive down the block, consider each neighbor. As you pass through a downtown area, consider every person hustling to and...
Poetic Pause: Goldenrod, Mary Oliver
Goldenrod On roadsides, in fall fields, in rumpy bunches, saffron and orange and pale gold, in little towers, soft as mash, sneeze-bringers and seed-bearers, full of bees sand yellow beads and perfect...
Time: The Wonder of God Challenge
DAY 2: TIME Reflect on the wondrous gift of time. Pull out a calendar or day planner and spend fifteen minutes considering all that's on your schedule for the upcoming two weeks. Consider marking which activities fill up your time versus those that fill you with life and provide opportunities to awaken to the wonder of God all around. Prayerfully consider what changes—including cuts and...
Thirty Days of Wonder Challenge
"Ask God to awaken your ability to see and savor His sweet presence and recognize His divine handiwork. Then live eyes wide open to the ways God answers." - Margaret Feinburg, Wonderstruck Since learning of our community study Wonderstruck, Awaken to the Nearness of God, (which begins TONIGHT!) some of you have asked if I'd share tidbits from the study here on the blog—but I'm going to do one...
Summer Read: Your Creative Writing Masterclass
Searching for a great summer read? Back cover: From Robert Louis Stevenson to Mary Shelley, Alice Munro to Stephen King, Your Creative Writing Masterclass guides you through: finding your style generating story ideas creating vivid characters constructing powerful plots crafting your ideal writer's life This resource is packed with insight from the masters but what I most appreciate,...
Poetic Pause: A Celebration of DEpendence
Our country celebrates its independence once a year. Christ followers have the privilege of celebrating our DEpendence on Him with every intake of breath. Sweet Desperation Of all the gifts I know our loving Father brings The answered prayers, Protection from all things unseen, The peace within your heart, The small, simplistic things. That cry from deep within your soul Will bring the...
Awaken the Wonder of God Within
Experiencing the wonder of God isn't about landing a crazy story to tell our friends or experiencing pimply goose bumps. The wonder awakens us to dive even deeper in our relationship with God. - Margaret Feinberg, Wonderstruck, Awaken to the Nearness of God In preparing to facilitate Wonderstruck next week, I consider Revelation 2:4 ESV: But I have this against you, that you...
Poetic Pause: Mountain Mornings
(View from back deck @ The Blackberry Cottage, Saluda NC) Mountain air snaps all creative senses to attention. What place or space serves as your catalyst for...
Cathy Baker
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