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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What an awesome way to sprinkle God’s love to others, thank you for sharing. I would love to win your book to spread God’s love to others in creative ways, to people all around me, sorta like secrect pals at work and a opportunity to give to the comunity
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win. 🙂 God Bless
Great ideas .It is often the “small” things that make our day
I must admit, this is just up my alley! I love to do things like this, my creative side of me comes out. Right now, I am decorating jars…I cannot believe it. I have put ribbons around them and a cross on the front, then I used some of your tags with a Bible verse on them. I filled them with different things…like colored tacks, clips and little sticky notes, even a tiny stapler and staples. Also, I used handkerchiefs inside my jars to bring out the color, it matched my ribbons. I use small soaps, shampoo, finger nail file, etc in another jar.
Just had fun with it.
Another time I decorated with min-canvas on stands and used Bible verses which were on stickers that were clear. I have also decorated with keys…old and new. I went to the store to get there throw away keys to put on the tables. Used ribbon around the old keys. Just some of the ideas I came up with.
I have paid for a Veteran’s lunch, handed out bottles of water to the homeless, given out clothes to the needy, given little children money, and helped the pregnancy center. This year I am helping support children in OKC who need a free lunch. Just love to do things that help others. I don’t have a lot of money so I try to get other ladies to help me and we try to do something really special at least once a year at our annual church brunch.
I have picked 8 women this year to randomly bless throughout the year. I have already done one thing and the next project is to send them 4 packets of seeds to plant some flowers that will grow in their area. I plan on sending out in the coming week to enable them to have a chance to get the seeds to germinate. It would be helpful to find more ideas from your book to be able to celebrate these women. I include a scripture before sending something to them. Usually before I send to them, I pray over each person’s name and unless I get a specific scripture, I use the same one for each. I don’t know if the next project will include all 8 or one individual or just a few as I wait on the Lord for direction. It is exciting to see how God directs my path. So far, nothing has been too costly and that is what I like best since I am on a strict budget and this has to come from my grocery budget – which God provides for as well.
I have five children ages 24, 16, 14, 13, 12 and 3 grandchildren ages 3 and twins that are 1. I work as a 911 dispatch supervisor and I have crazy work schedules. I too want to instill in my children and grandchildren a selfless love for others. I would love to utilize ideas in this book to help me accomplish that goal.
Love this! A great way to share Gods love with others.
I could totally learn to stop, be still and learn to appreciate Gods goodness a bit more!
Looks like a great book with lots of great ideas 🙂
Would love to win!
Would love to win this to continue to share God’s love in more creative fun ways.
I love this!!! I would love to win a copy to learn how I can show God’s love to others in practical ways — with my kids!! 🙂
I used to love to do this, I still do.
Love the simple ideas to encourage or brighten someone’s day!
Thanks!
Jennifer
Hospitality…..that is our goal this year at church. I chair the hospitality committee and want to involve the children’s classes and the ladies’ group. I make bookmarks that my pastor shares, each with a stamped or handwritten Biblical message. I make cards, b’day, get well, sympathy, etc. for my family and friends. I do random acts of kindness. I lost a first cousin (cancer) and a second cousin (heart attack) this morning and plan to take cakes to their services tomorrow night. Instead of buying flowers, I use baskets, arrange a quilt in it, accent with silk flowers and a handmade tag and include a handmade sympathy card. This way the money spent goes to something usable. I would certainly put the book to good use. I hope I win. I hope I have given people good ideas to share God’s love.
Creating memories with our children are so special.
I love he ideas you mentioned. I just thought of someone
who has lost her husband recently. I believe this is a great
Way to show God’s love to others. I would love to give this book to
my friend!
Thanks! Janet
Memories are so important to everyone! What do most people talk about when they get older – their memories of when they were young. This book sounds like it has some great ideas to make such beautiful memories. I’m a grandma to 6 beautiful granchildren in 3 different kids’ families and I pray I am making memories for them!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this book. 🙂
Blessings to you!
Susan
I love those ideas you already shared and want to bless others, sometimes just not sure how to go about it.
This book sounds like jsut what I need. Thanks for the encouraging words!
Thank you for additional idea’s to bring joy into other’s lives. One of my favorite things to do is buy boxes of encouragement cards and mail them to people I know for no reason at all.
Would love to win a copy of this book. We never seem to make the most of opportunities to “bless” others. Am sure everyone can use some ideas. Sounds like a great book with super ideas.
I would so enjoy using Everyday Confetti and sharing the ideas with my children and ladies group! I seem to come up with creative ideas AFTER the opportunity to bless passed 🙁 Owning such a resource would enable me to be on top of making opportunities for myself, and others, to be a blessing. And that is why I would appreciate a copy 🙂