Giveaway Winners Part 2 & A Bonus Winner!

 "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb."
Psalm 19:7-10

If you haven't read this post, this one may not make sense! So, you may want to go back and do that now before reading on.😃

Giveaway Winners!

 "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
Proverbs 16:24

~Giveaway Winners~

I didn't forget—I promise! The names were drawn yesterday for our notecard giveaway, but I haven't been able to confirm that one of them was a legitimate entry. The other four winners have been notified, but I didn't want to keep the rest of you waiting any longer. So, for now, I will announce four of the five winners. Drumroll, please......

My 2025 Word of the Year & A Giveaway!

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A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you! I pray that your holidays were exceedingly blessed and that this greeting finds you in good health and much encouraged in your walk with Jesus! It is hard to imagine that we are now in 2025, and I don't recall living through a faster-moving year than 2024. It just felt like it flew by, and as hard as I tried to grasp onto the moments, they slipped through my hands like grains of sand. Time onward flows, and here we are, already 11 days into the new year, still pressing on, keeping the faith, and doing our utmost to follow Jesus as closely as we can. 

An Exciting Announcement!

When I began this blog on October 1, 2011, our son, Zach, was 10 years old. Through these years of blogging, you have read many stories about my husband, Kevin, Zach, and me. I've shared smiles and victories, and I've also told you about a small portion of some of the trials and heartaches we have encountered over the past 13 years.

We Have a Winner!

Hello, dear friends!

This morning, Kevin drew a random name from our little bowl of giveaway entrants to our special Autumn giveaway.

And the name he drew was..........

The Bearing of Burdens

 

As Christians, I'm sure we have all experienced both sides of the instruction in this verse - having our burdens borne by another and being the one who is bearing another's burdens. Either way, the burden is shared, and the overall load of the burden is cut in half.

God's Waiting Room & GIVEAWAY Reminder!

God's waiting room—one of the hardest, most challenging places to find ourselves on this Christian journey. One of the most difficult things about His waiting room is that we don't know the duration. Every trial has a beginning and an end, but God doesn't give us those details. He just says, "Wait." It can feel like the waiting will never end and satan's lies can convince us that God has abandoned us there and that nothing will ever change.