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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This is an awesome idea!!!! This would help me get ideas for sharing my faith!!
I love looking for creative ways to celebrate others and this book sounds so helpful.
I am looking for creative ways to serve others and be more Christlike in the process. I also want to teach my son to love others as God loves us everyday 🙂
This is exactly what I think multiple times a day!! Thank you!!
I REALLY NEED THIS BOOK BECAUSE I ALWAYS WANT TO MAKE SPECIAL DAYS SPECIAL BUT I JUST CAN NEVER THINK OF HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a great idea. I need ideas. My husband and I have been in ministry for 40 years this coming June. I need new ideas for new ways of reaching out to people. I’m trying to keep up with technology and young people, but feel like I’m going against a rapid river of information and new ideas. I need help. I don’t want to be stuck in the past.
I would love to win this book because I like you have a lot of dates to remember. I also work for a preschool and you never want to forget their birthday or any special day for the family. I sure hope I win one some of these ideas were really great I think I was going to try them
When you have the privilege to bless someone , even in small ways, it be becomes a “life. changer ” you never think the same way again. I love, love what I have seen of your book!
Thank you for this book! It will bless so many people!
This book sounds like just what I need!!!
I would love to have this book for fresh new ideas to celebrate every day.
This book sounds wonderful, thank you!
What a great way to help lift yourself and someone else up! Thank you!
Looks like this book is filled with some fabulous ways to share God’s love with others. I have Karen’s book, “A Life that Says Welcome” and it was fabulous! I imagine this one is packed with wonderful ideas too!
This is a wonderful, thought way to bring joy to others! I am always trying to think of little things like this to do and all to often come up blank. What a awesome resource to have!
My daughters are 20 and 23. One is married and the other one has moved out also. My empty nest reactions are overwhelming to them. I need just simple things I can do to let them know I am thinking of them and love them. Maybe this would put salve on this momma’s heart!
I love this!! I enjoy showing God’s love to others and would love this book to get creative ideas! We moved recently and we are meeting many new people that we could sprinkle God’s love on. 🙂
great ideas
I love this idea. Although we have done things like this before, we need to be more intentional. This book would be a great resource.
This book sounds like it would have some neat ideas to add variety to life. It seems like fun ideas to spread with others. I always (if I even think of them) think of something that would be fun way after the time I need it. I am very plain, boring so this sounds like something that would be different for me.
I would like to start new traditions with my family. My husband and I were blessed with our last child in 2011 ( I was 41 and he was 53). Our other children were both in their late teens and grown. This has been a new beginning for the three of us. Besides having my daughter, we relocated from North Carolina to a small ranching community in Edna, Texas.
Because this is a new chapter in our lives, this is my chance to fulfill the purpose that God has for me, which is to raise my child to know Him (not only about Him). I have read A Confident Heart as an online bible study with Proverbs 31 Ministry with Melissa Taylor and Lyra TerKeurst. I cannot emphasii how your book with the bible study has changed my view on God, my family, and myself. Your book Everyday Confetti will be a great addition to mine and my family’s daily walk with the Lord.