Welcome to Marilyn Nutter, my friend and today’s guest blogger. I know you’ll gain valuable ideas for blessing the graduate and others in your life with her ideas for practical gifts of influence, inspiration, and legacy. Marilyn co-authored Destination Hope: A Travel Companion When Life Falls Apart with April White. This book offers hope in the life alterations and detours we all face. It’s a book I’ll read again and again. Marilyn’s complete bio and a book link are below the post. You’ll love her website. Graduates: Practical Gifts of Influence, Inspiration, and Legacy I’ve witnessed graduations from kindergarten to…
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God Used a Silent Mockingbird to Teach Me Six Biblical Speech Lessons
God used a mockingbird who didn’t sing to teach me a gentle lesson about wise speech. The bird flew from a neighbor’s yard and perched on our holly bush. Wrens, cardinals, and sparrows serenaded the day, but the mockingbird turned her head from side to side as if listening intently then flew away. A few moments later she returned, perched on a hydrangea bush, and trilled her song as if she had an important message to convey. How like this wise bird I want to be—not chirping and squawking constantly as soon as I arrive on a scene. I want…
Two Easter Treasures to Tuck into Your Heart
Our two youngest granddaughters make Easter egg hunts a year-round sport. Whether the calendar reads July, December, or April, as soon as they enter our home, they make their plea, “Gigi, let’s hunt Easter eggs.” Bad weather? Indoors works, too. No matter what other fun we plan, the hunt for empty, plastic Easter eggs is the priority. (Of course, when Poppy helps, the girls sometimes find coins in the eggs.) “Okay, Gigi,” the girls say after they’ve hunted. “Now we’ll hide them, and you find them.” I wonder why they’re intrigued by the repetitious activity of finding normally empty plastic…
Trusting God for Wants and Needs
When my husband and I visited a mall with a friend, our five-year-old daughter, Tyler Marie, instantly spied a stuffed deer in the toy shop window. She led me by the hand into the store, picked up the cute animal with huge eyes and soft brown fur, and asked us to buy it. “I really need this deer, Mommy, because I don’t have a deer.” “But you have lots of stuffed animals,” I responded. “But I don’t have a deer. I’ve never had a deer in my whole life. Can we please buy him? Pleeease?” My husband reminded our little…
Learning to Trust by Guest Blogger, Lori Hatcher
Welcome to Lori Hatcher, today’s guest blogger. Reader friend, you’re in for a treat with Lori’s devotion AND an opportunity to win A FREE COPY of her new devotional book. We all know Bible reading and prayer are vital parts of our faith, but what happens when our prayer lives become stagnant and our quiet times grow stale? We need something more than just familiar verses and the command to pray. In Refresh Your Prayers, Uncommon Devotions to Unlock Power and Praise, Lori Hatcher shares five-minute story-driven devotions that spotlight unusual prayer verses in the Bible. Lori, one of my…