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 like to send cards of encouragement in the mail to family & friends. This book would be great for other ideas of how to bless people.
I’m always looking for ways to show love in a tangible way and Karen Ehman delivers! Can’t wait to see the new book!
I think this is a great idea. I love little Happys! and would like more ideas on how to use them.
I am a teacher asst. and I have 21 little ones that need me to sprinkle them with one everyday…..even when I don’t feel like it.
I would love to have this book to make everyday special. I feel the days are special since God made them but I need to share that with others.
Sometimes we just stop whatever we are doing and have a family dance party. It always makes everyone smile and it is so cute to see my 2 year old’s new dance moves.
Looks like a great book for someone like me who isn’t very creative! 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!
This is just what I need! What great ideas! Love getting the children involved too! Thank You!!
Thanks for sharing all those wonderful ideas – I had just recently made some book marks for people at church and I put verses on them as well, now I can use some of those ideas to hand out even more little everyday notes!
Thanks for the reminder to celebrate every day – some days are so hard with a 7 month old that I need to be reminded to enjoy them 🙂
I have been looking for ways to connect in small ways with the people in my life whom I don’t know very well, including church members and neighbors, in addition to making ordinary days special for my family and friends. I think “Everyday Confetti” could be the answer!
As my own children get older, and now my first grandchild, it becomes even more important to teach them to impact our world.
After recently losing many possessions in a tornado, I realize what I have lost most is my time, which has been spent cleaning, sorting, shopping, fixing, etc. It’s our family time and all those moments that matter more than any possessions and I can’t wait to have more time to devote to our ordinary, everyday moments. The memories we make cannot be taken away by a fire, flood, tornado.
I need ideas to spark up special days. I have been frustrated that those days that should be special simply meld into the ordinary.
First I’d like to thank you for your heart and the wonderful contribution you offer to us through this message. As mothers we tack on so many expectations on ourselves because we strive to do it all and in that we quickly lose focus on what really matters. I have such a hard time reminding myself that I’m broken and that’s okay. It’s just so hard to visualize what living simply looks like and how to maintain it with the very many distractions and set backs. It’s so easy to fall into the guilt mode and before we know it we’ve dug ourselves into a pit. Your ideas seem like the perfect antidote to our over-thinking and high expectations we so often put on ourselves. I’m looking forward to exploring your site and should I be blessed to recieve a copy I will absolutely take it to heart and put it into action. Live it, share it, repeat. God Bless and thank you again.
Great stuff and ideas.
thank you for the wonderful insight. please keep it coming!! God Bless
I could really use some tips. I always have good intentions but fall short when it comes to ideas.
I think this is a wonderful idea and plan to get my Life group in on doing this!
simple things …. it doesn’t have to be complex, just basics—it’s the little things that matter!
Blessing to you!
M