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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Cant wait to get this book. Hoping it will give me that spark back to have fun with holidays and everyday!
These acts of kindness seem to be such a blessing and they seem so easy and stress free what an awesome idea. Thanks for sharing these ideas to bless someone else. I usaully use post it and leave message of encouragement. Hope to win this book. Blessing
Really exciting to celebrate birthdays.. but true we tend to forget them being held up with so much other works… Glad to have copy of Everyday Confetti so as to have a blessed time with loved ones…
I love doing something for someone just because. It doesn’t have to be a special occasion, just any day of the week to bless someone. Thank you for sharing all of the wonderful ways to bless someone! I am going to give a few of yours a try!
How exiting! Sounds fantastic and would love to win a copy to give to my son and daughter-in-law.
This is such a refresher/reminder to me. I use to do this kind of thing when my children were young now that they have married and left for college I have let this idea go too. I would love to see some of the other ideas in this book to get more Ideas to maybe do this long distance or every day occurance to express the Love of Christ with the every day ideas called confetti love the name as well.
I would love to read this for more practical ideas on how to bless others.
Love to listen to them!
I would love to win a copy. I love to celebrate and show love to others and it appears this book would have some wonderful ideas!
I would love a chance to win this book! Thanks so much! I appreciate the Proverbs 31 team!!
This would be great. Can’t do much but always looking for ways to bless others. Found a fun pattern for crotched sugar cookies which I made for my mother & two dear older friends who are widows. Their appreciation really blessed me!
Sounds like a great book! I’d love to win it- sometimes you just need help with ideas 🙂
I have been watching for the release of this book! I would love to have a copy of it! I need ideas of how to bless others in different ways. Thank you.
I would love to have a copy of this. I am a Pastors wife and I constantly am looking for ways to encourage people. Ministry is my compassion as well as my calling. God is good.
Great ideas, love the title. Would love to read this book. In a world of texting…. I often send random text with scripture to my teen son, early adult niece and nephews. Funny because when my son was small I would leave random notes in his lunch box- he always enjoyed it. Now he appreciates the text. I also have bought certain daily devotional books and given them to people during challenging times. If you know someone with cancer about to go into treatments, research some items that could help them through it (blankets, boomerang pillow, books, magazines, a new water bottle, even personal items like tissues, nausea pops, lotions, lip balms). You can get your kids to help you pick the items out which will help encourage compassion. Thanks for the giveaway !!! Karen
I would love a copy of this! It’s just what I need for a jump start.
Would live to win a copy and incorporate ideas like these into my family and church family to reach our community!
The name alone makes me smile 🙂 “Everyday Confetti”. Makes me think of the times I buy little hearts, snowflakes etc…and put them inside greeting cards I send so that when the recipient opens the card little confetti blessings spill over. I think we all need a little confetti everyday 🙂
Blessings,
Joy
Holidays are so stressful for me and I seem to tell myself every year I will give myself more time so I am not so rushed when the holiday comes!!! I think your book would have great ideas and be a blessing to me and I will share this book with my friends!!!! So it can bless someone else!!!
A lot of cool ideas ! This book will come in very handy!