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 am the same way….many good intentions that never see the light of day.
This would be so helpful for me.
I feel like I am the Queen of good intentions! I am always buying cards that somehow don’t ever seem to get mailed. I would love to read this book, I hope it would help me get organized!
Love to surprise others when they least expect it! Thank you for providing this give-a-way… 🙂
Love these ideas you have shared. Would definitely love to see some more ideas.
What a wonderful title “Everyday Confetti”! A title and book that my Dear Departed Mom would have loved and appreciated. She was a lady that knew how to spin a little magic for the Holidays. She loved everyone of them and passed her Joy in Celebration on to me as such a Blessed Gift. I have learned over the years too to make a little magic for those that I love, especially my now deceased Daughter, and my Son, but hopefully one day for grandchildren. As a Psychiatric Nurse working with abused and battered kids and teens, and with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients, as well as a Trauma – Critical Nurse I am always looking for fresh and new ideas to bring a bit of Joy into my Patients lives, their families lives, and too to the lives of my staff. I think this book would be a helpful solution for when my creative energies are a little bit depleted.
Looks like a great book, Renee! Thank you for sharing it with us :-).
I love to celebrate, but don’t always have the time or money to do what I’d like. I would love to hear how I can keep it simple AND make it special!
In a world where we spend more on screen time than actual face time, this book would be great to help get back to personal relationships. This book could not come at a better time. With raising four small children this book would be dog tailed, highlighted, and carry many post-it notes. Thanks for sharing your ideas on stress free celebration! Sprinkle on!
Hi! Looks so interesting. Would love to find new ways to dote on the people around me (:
And that’s one of my favourite verse you’ve got there. “We love because he first loved us.”
This sounds like a book I could really use a lot! I am so not organized or creative. I have such good intentions to make great memories for my husband and son but I seem to let getting overwhelmed become my norm and than I feel badly about my lack of skills and not having made a huge fuss and celebration for my guys. I would love to surprise them with a creative touch for a change!
Nothing is more priceless than memories and especially of our lived ones! So to be able to find new, creative ways to make their days special,would simply brighten my day and add to my collection of memories!! I would love to win a copy if your book so that I can dive into it for new creations for 2014 for my five precious grandchildren….there is nothing more special….and even more to he able to have God first in those creations!!! Thank you for the opportunity…. Blessings!!!!
I absolutely love all of these ideas. Can’t wait to put them into action!
I LOVE these ideas – so simply yet able to leave quite an impact on someone (or at least it would for me). I just love this idea and enjoy the encouragement from you ladies!
I too want to be organized and not just go Thur the motions of life I want to live it and give and share love and God
I am organized but not creative or artsy…so this would help a lot 🙂
Love these ideas! Every day has something to celebrate!
Thank you for sharing this. I so desperately need ideas and ways to celebrate and encourage others. We have a blended family of 8 children, 4 of whom are still at home. The four children at home are 15, 13, 10 and 7. We also have 1 grandBaby. My husband works long hours and is out of town a lot, which means the everyday chorus, upkeep and running kids places falls on me. There never seems to be enough time and I feel guilty a lot that I’m not doing enough to build special memories for the kids. Time is flying by so fast and before we know it all our children will be out on their own. This book sounds like it would give me real practical ways to create meaningful times together and ways to honor and celebrate others. Thank you so much. This is exactly what we busy moms need. God Bless!
These are wonderful ideas for everyday as well as gift ideas! Thank you for sharing!
I think this is an excellent idea for a book! I am currently leading a women’s Bible Study and we have been talking about how we can share love, hope, encouragement, and joy with others…thinking of ways to bless people we know and people we do not know personally ,but could use a good dose of kindness to show God’s love. We are His hands here on Earth.
I would be thrilled to receive a book and pass it along to the ladies in my study.
Many blessings,
Vivian
I especially appreciated the ideas for the postal worker, firefighters/police officers – what a great way to say thanks! I made crockpot candy before Christmas & gave goodie bags to the neighbors & postman. I pick up small hand creams & lip balms, put them in ‘seasonal’ gift bags & pass them out randomly to people at our church – you should see the way they light up! I’d love to read the book & get more ideas on how to bless others! Thanks much!