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!
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!
I don’t often get around to celebrating events and people because I get too caught op trying to come up with the perfect ideas. Some shared ideas would be a help.
I am trying to be more intentional about my days…. Making ordinary days special sounds like a good place to start. You can’t ever have too much love in your life. Thank you for the giveaway. Janita
I often struggle with feeling like I didn’t do enough, or the kids birthday party wasn’t special enough…or I get wrapped up in something trying to make it memorable and then end up missing another opportunity to love on someone, minister to them or just flat out enjoy the moment. I would love some encouragement in how to balance this out and stop feeling so guilty for not being enough! I know that I am enough…but these struggles get the best of me more times than not. In turn, I would love to be able to share this with the women in my small group in hopes to make us all a little less stressed and more effective in the ways God intended!
I love some of the ideas about sharing gods word. I may try the message on a candy bar and leaving it in the mail box. Love it.
Love these ladies and how they speak Truth. I imagine their book will be fabulous!
Simply feeling a little lost right at the moment. This might just lift me while lifting others. Blessings to you!
I can’t even begin to tell you how needed that book is in my life. I have so many great intentions and not one creative bone in my body. 🙂
I would love to win this book because as a mama three girls, 18, 15, and 12, it would give me ideas to help them grow into adult years. I’m reading your devotional book of sixty days now on Confident Heart, which I absolute adore.
This is so amazing in always looking for ways to give back with my girls!
I enjoy you sharing gods word.. Really like to see this book.
This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it! — Ps. 118:24
Love this book…hope to WIN it! Blessings and Shalom peace (yep, that is double Peace).
What a wonderful book to help spread Gods love to everyone we come in contact with. I would LOVE to read and own this book. Everyone I come in contact with would benifit from this book. May you be blessed as you are a blessing to so many. ~smiles & blessings, Robin 🙂
I think that this book would be a great way to help me as I start a new chapter in a new state and town. It would help me to find ways to maybe make new friends and share God’s love.
I’d love to win!
Our home is full of boys constantly! Between our 3 sons and the fact that we live across the street from their high school, our home seems to be THE place to hang out. My hubby & I are glad because we feel it is our current ministry to help these young men see/understand what a HOME is. My goal is to celebrate little things and Everyday Confetti could help!!!
I am very interested in this book! I belong to a group of ladies titled “WinGS” (women in God’s service) and we are always looking for ways to “serve”. I feel this may inspire us to do even more for the Lord!
I would love to have this book. I am not great a coming up with ideas. Just the few ideas mentioned sound wonderful. I already have a few people in mind that I would like to bless with some of the ideas mentioned. I know my grandkids would learn from this book too.
Renee, You are truly an inspiration. I enjoy your messages. The guests you highlight are awesome! I think you have out done yourself with Everyday Confetti. I am so excited to get started with Letting God Love (others) through me. I am going to give a love gift to the man who delivers the local paper at my office on Wednesdays. Thanks again for the inspiration. In His Love, Holli
Recently, the Lord has been putting it upon my heart to build memories with my children (now 10, 8, & 5). It would be a blessing to have a book to reference. God bless you and all that you do! Your ministry has truly helped me.
I love her books!
Hello Renee, I discovered you through a women’s ministry at my local church, I receive your emails and thoroughly enjoy them. I am on baby steps back to finding the joy in my life after losing my only son, I am slowly trying to give back to those that were so good to my family and I and to continue on the caring, loving and giving spirit that my son had. He would do anything for complete strangers who were in need. I would also like to lead by example for his five year old daughter, who even at her young age is so much like him. This book offers some great ideas to do just that. Thank you!
I would LOVE a copy of Everyday Confetti ……to help me with my FAMILY celebrations and every day life also….
Would love to win a copy of this book for new ways to celebrate the every day life.
What a great idea! I would love go-to ideas to bless others.
Would love to win a copy!
This books looks amazing! It would be a blessing to be able to have more ways to bless others! I would love to get new ideas and it would be great to have them in one place!
I love the idea of this book! I am all the time trying to think of new ideas to “sprinkle” happiness onto others.
One of my ideas: I sell Scentsy; I’m blessed to have a very friendly UPS driver who delivers my products to me each month. Every so often I’ll leave a “thank you” note attached to one of my products made for the vehicle. He loves it!
So many great ideas that I can use with my teens also! It goes too fast! 🙂
Looks like an awesome book packed full of wonderful ways to spread God’s Love through simple gift of kindness. #kindnessmatters
I would love to read it and use it to LOVE on others!
So Thankful for all of you at Proverbs 31!
I need a reason to slow down and bring out the good china these days. I always tend to celebrate, but time to prepare slips away. My youngest will leave the nest before I know it. Sigh. Tonight, my older is coming for dinner, I’m cooking liver, something we all enjoy, bu h isn’t ready to tackle yet. The candles and good china can one out, but how do you elebrate the everyday? I hunk your book will help me,karen