My birthday is coming up. January 8th 🙂 I start looking forward to my birthday every year on the 9th – I love it. I make a point to have a good time and set myself up for delight – choosing my clothes, breakfast, and day’s activities in advance to celebrate the fact that God […]
The Urge to Purge: 4 Reasons We Trim the Fat
I’ve been on a big Purge the Excess kick for a while. What started as a weekend project to rid my pokey kitchen of clutter has become an exciting approach to a new lifestyle. A lifestyle that breathes easy, breeds simplicity, and involves a very gradual process of ridding our lives of distraction and noise. […]
Giving Time over STUFF
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s blow by in a hurried hustle. Even outside of the holidays, kids, teens, husbands, and wives are constantly on the go, on the phone, and operating frantically on the fly. While it’s ideal to slow down and savor the moment in the midst of holiday preparations, for some it’s just […]