Every year my calendar gets filled with busy days, holidays, birthdays and lots of ordinary days in-between! And every January, I tell myself… “I want this year to be different. I want us to make more memories, and make a difference together, as a family. Joshua and Andrew are already sixteen and nineteen. I’ve got to get more intentional before they move out!”
Do you ever have conversations like that with yourself, or is it just me?
I have such great intentions of getting more organized and creative, but then, every month it seems my intentions get trumped by the busyness of life! Well, I found us some help! My friends Karen Ehman and Glynnis Whitwer have done the creative planning, organizing and simplifying for us in their new go-to guide, Everyday Confetti!
Today Karen stopped by to be part of my #LetGodLoveYou series! She’s giving us glimpse of the goodness inside Everyday Confetti and share “A Few Simple Ways To Sprinkle God’s LOVE”! PLUS I’ve got a copy of the book to giveaway too!
Simple Ways To Sprinkle God’s LOVE
First, create small tags with Bible verses about God’s love on them. Here are a few to use:
- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1
- And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. 1 John 4:16a
- We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
Attach a tag to any of these ideas to sprinkle God’s love on those around you:
- Purchase coffee house gift cards and attached a tag to each. Go to a hospital waiting room and hand them out to folks who look like they could use a good cup of coffee.
- Take your kids to the grocery store and offer to carry out the groceries for elderly people you see. Hand them a note of kindness with a tag attached.
- Purchase gift cards for local restaurants that deliver and attach tags to them. Take a few to your pastor or church secretary so they can order lunch to be brought in on busy days.
- Place a candy bar or homemade treat with a tag in your mailbox for the mail carrier.
- Have young children {or grandchildren} color pictures or paint some adding glitter and stickers. Write one of the verses above on the picture. Then, take them to the local nursing home and hand them out.
- If you live in an area with lots of snow on the ground, make snowmen outside of the windows of a nursing home or hospital children’s ward. {Be sure to get permission first}
- Hand a tag to the worker at the drive-through window and pay for the person’s order behind you. Ask the worker to give the tag to the person with their food.
- Create a fruit or vegetable tray and attach a tag and a bow on top. Take it to the local police or fire station thanking them for their hard work!
- Take a plate of homemade goodies to your child’s teacher’s lounge at school with a tag attached.
Enter to WIN!
From the back cover~ Got a calendar packed with reasons to celebrate but a brain that lacks ideas? Special people you want to love on but limited time to do it? Relax. We’ve got you covered! Everyday Confetti is your go-to guide to making holidays, birthdays, special events, and even the everyday special. Inside you’ll find more than two hundred ways to make memories with your family, including easy recipes, fun activities, and inexpensive decorating ideas–all simple, doable, and stress-free.
Leave a comment to enter to win! Simply share why you’d like a copy of Everyday Confetti, or share a favorite celebration idea you have.Winners will be announced next week. If you’re reading this via email, click here to go to my blog and ENTER TO WIN!
After you ENTER TO WIN, hop over to the oh-so-fun Everyday Confetti website where you’ll find lots of FREE ideas to sprinkle “special” on every day!
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I have been so blessed by reading your blog. I hope to get the book …I will even buy one
I would like to win this book because this is exactly what I want someone to do for me- show me love. The smallest kindness, expression of love changes my day, my attitude, my love to others. I want to give love away to my family, my co-workers because I think they have their empty cup out for a love donation, just like me.
I love the ideas. It is indeed the simple, thoughtful things that make the best memories. Thanks for the encouragement this ministry gives!
I’d love to win this book to have great ideas to share with others in need of God’s great love for them
Sorry I missed this chance to win but I enjoyed reading the above.
When my girls were younger I would put notes in their lunches and write notes on their mirror. Now that they 18 and 16 they don’t seem to care anymore. Sometimes I feel they are pulling away. I love these ideas and I am going to try some of them. Just need to give my girls little reminders that God is still with them and we will always be with them.
Wow, heard you on WBCL today with Lynn Ford and was blessed by God once again through you. Thank you for an obedient heart Renee!!!! Came to your site over lunch break and am again blown away by how God brings His gifts and encouragement to me. Not sure why I get so surprised but I do. : ) God has soooo impressed upon me that the “busyness of life” is not from Him and is actually preventing me from experiencing His peace, presence, ect in my life. I must remove what drains away my energy, space, and time to be with God and be about His Best Plans for me and through me for my family and others. Thank you God for leading me here to Everyday Confetti. What a gift to help in the area of my ungiftedness hahaha. Happy to use Karen and Glyniss’ giftedness to bring joy to those I love and desire to encourage!!!!! Thanks again so much Renee. May God shower you with His great favor!
Kat T
I would love to have your book. I would love to have new ideas to share with my teenagers. We took Puffs Kleenexes to our members of the church that live in the nursing home this last winter. It was so good for the kids not to mention how much the residents loved it.