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 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!