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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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
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!