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!
I would love to win this book… who couldn’t use more ideas for sharing LOVE with those around you! Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
I would love to be an encouragement to others, and there are so many great ideas to do it in this book!
I would love a copy so I can share ideas with my Daughter who is my best friend and has been strugkng the lady voud of years to have true Joy in her life!
I would like a copy because I would like ideas to bless my friends in mission work in Haiti and the Haitian women they work with at the medical clinic. Thank you Be blessed
This book sounds like it has so many fun and special ideas! I would love to win a copy!!
I know that one thing that will help me out of this slump of depression is to do kind things for others. A list of practical ways to do so, rather than just good intentions, i believe would be helpful.
I really need to start celebrating the everyday. Life is short, celebrate.
I would love to win a copy because it isn’t available to buy yet in the UK :-))
Our boys have moved away from home, but when they do come home I like to make it an extra special event. This book would provide some great ideas!
I would love to win! Any ideas for fun, creative and inexpensive ways to celebrate with family, friends and everyone are always welcome by me! It’s just what I need to help create lasting memories and special times for people!
Everyday Confetti is so appropriate. I put confetti in all the cards I send to people to lift their spirits. I am always trying to think of ways to bring a little joy into someone’s life so this book would give me the ideas I need. I began putting confetti in cards when my daughter left home right after high school, at 17, to join the Air Force. I then began putting it in all the other cards I sent and send to others. I am known for the confetti I enclose in my cards. I am Director of Senior Adult Sunday School and I am always looking for ideas to bless them and add a little JOY to their lives. We should have a confetti celebration everyday in our lives…..
What a great idea for a book. I have 3 children 11, 8, and 4 and would love to have simple ideas to use to show them not only how to spread kindness but share Jesus as well. We have done a few things for nursing homes, etc…. But this less than creative mommy would love fresh ideas! 🙂
What a great book chocked full of ideas! Would love to take and implement some of them with others.
I would love to have this book for more inspiring ideas! I already feel uplifted just from reading Renee’s blog entry and this little part of the book! I want to share God’s love in different ways than I may have thought of. Thank you for all that you do!!
#Giveaway added to Pinterest at BOOK’D Board
Would luv to win to learn new ways and opps to ‘Celebrate’ =)
{ TY for hosting the intro and giveaway }
What a wonderful way to share the word of GOD and the Love I
of JESUS .
Thank you for such awesome ideas.
You are such a blessing to us 🙂
Love these RAK ideas !
one that I luv to do in my apartment building – write notes of encouragement in pretty cards and slip under the doors of the elderly…
Also, pinning the book to my PINTEREST BOARD
thanks for the intro and giveaway generosity !
After going back to work full time, I feel stretched to make quality time with my family. I want my husband and boys know that I love them in small, encouraging ways. I also would love ideas because there are so many people in my sphere that could use a pick-me-up or a thank you and to know that God loves them.
I love to make people smile by sharing God’s gifts to me! Everyday is a reason to smile & share with others! But I need done new ideas, please.
I would love to win a copy!! the examples you shared are great ideas-we’re moving out of the country with the military and I would love to be able to bless new people as well as send special surprises back home to our family!! Thanks for the ideas and opportunity to win!!
I would love to win this! I love giving to others and I love that this book gives ideas how to give to others everyday in fun, creative ways! What an awesome way to demonstrate God’s love!
Would love to win a copy of the book!
I would love to win a copy of this book because, like you said in your post, I’ve got a calendar packed with reasons to celebrate but a brain that lacks ideas. My one word for this year is Intentional. I don’t think I’ve been very good about living so far and maybe this book can give me some ideas to do just that. I have a wonderful husband of almost 19 years and four great kids still at home (ages 15, 14, 10 & 8) that I’d love to try out these ideas on.
I love getting new ideas to show our Lords love to others! Thanks for all you do
Every day should have a reason to celebrate!
Its nice to show Gods love in different ways because people receive his love differently . I would love this book to get ideas on sharing Gods love with people.
What a wonderful to share God’s love with others! Looks like simple ways to bless others.
I would love to win a copy of this book as I would love to learn to be more creative with celebrating those I love!
I used to love to decorate and entertain, but over three last the years have had to take on a much more stressful job. I am also the women’s ministry director at my church, and do out seems like my own house and family are the last to be decorated or celebrated. I, like Renee, am watching the days fly of the calendar and realize my girls will soon be gone. I would love to have help in c re atjng everyday celebrations to show my family how much I love and appreciate them. Additionally, I think this would be a great theme to share with my women’s group!
I do not have a creative bone in my body. Seriously, it is the hardest thing for me to come up with neat ideas but I love to copy the creative juices of someone with that gift. I would love Karen and Glynnis’ new book!
Thanks for the chance!
I’d love to win this book for more ideas on random acts of kindness and other things. Thanks and God bless!!
I’d love to win a copy of Everyday Confetti!! I’m in need of some new recipes to try out for family gatherings. Thanks so much for an awesome giveaway!!
Would love to have this. I need some good ideals for celebrating!
I love to put a little sparkle into our everyday. My mother-in-law has taught me that everyday is a day to celebrate.
I would love to win this book because I don’t have a bone of hospitality in my body. That verse that says to practice it? Yes, that’s what my poor guests endure–my practicing.
Thanks for the awesome ideas! I’d love to win!
I would love this book! Loved Karen’s Let It Go! I have 4 kids – the oldest is a senior & I’m trying to make every minute count! Busy schedules (pediatrician husband, marching band, sports practices & games & music lessons….& then there’s church activities that we love, too!) make being intentional a challenge so I would love the great advice this book would give! I think this book was written “for such a time as this!” Can’t wait to read it!!!
Your writing has been a huge blessing to me. May the LORD bless you richly!
I thought maybe I was the only one who for years, every January, made it a part of my New Year’s resolutions, to make holidays, birthdays, etc. more special. Like Renee mentioned, the busyness of life always takes over and by the end of the year, I feel defeated because all my good intentions never amounted to anything. Now, my kids are 29 and 25. Even though they are older and out of the house, I would still like to have some creative ideas as I do not have a crafty or creative bone in my body! I do have 4 precious grandchildren and I would like to start making some wonderful memories for them as well.
I’d love to be able to teach my 8 year old daughter trtuer meanings of celebrating
This is so out of my comfort zone that I would definitely have to have the prodding of this book to push me to do so.
Oh my goodness, I have wanted this book for some time!! I don’t always know where to begin with putting together a way to celebrate someone! This book would be such a blessing!!
Looking forward to your new book.
Love Random Acts of a Kindness and sharing the love of Jesus through food. I would love some great ideas and this book looks like it has plenty!
This book sounds amazing! I would love to win a copy! What a blessing it will be to someone special. 🙂 with one grown and their own family, one a senior and then our little princess from China, I too desire to be and do more but tend to get caught in the day to day. I love the ideas you shared. Thank you for being a blessing to us all.
Love spending time this morning reading all of your comments. Grab the confetti & enjoy your time with your loved ones!!!!
Oh my!! I just love this!!! I want to love on folks, I just lack the imagination to make it happen like this… This, this is wonderful!!! If I don’t win this book, I’m going to buy it. I may just buy it anyway and if I win it, I’ll gift it to someone… God Bless All of You Renee…
I love these! I could use this resource to help me obtain my lifelong goal to be a better Christian and to share His love to others!! Thank you for these inspirations!
Loved reading the great tag ideas…..would be great to have the book and see what other wonderful ideas you have for us!!
What a wonderful way to do something that may turn someone’s day around. To be a noticer!