Refresh with Summer Joy: 5 Easy Ways to Gather Friends Around the Table

Let’s continue our theme of reaching for refreshment and savoring summer days by cultivating our relationship with God and each other. Today I’m including: 1. Lemonade stand memories, 2. Encouraging words from the apostle Paul, 3. 5 easy ways to gather friends around the table, 4. 2 more summer recipes, and drum roll please … 5. Updates on A Place at His Table, my devotional that releases this August. Let’s start with a glass of cold lemonade. Does that sound like summer refreshment to you?  Lemonade Stand Memories My summer memories include our childhood lemonade stands where sugary liquid pooled…

Reach for Refreshment & Savor Your Summer: Connect with God and Each Other

  How can “Connecting with God and Each Other” refresh us and help us squeeze all the goodness out of summer days? Did you notice the title change in my website banner above? I still plan to brighten your day with encouraging posts based on God’s Word and practical tips, but we’ll focus on relationships and how to strengthen them. As I read Scripture and talk with friends, ideas are splashing onto the page like a waterfall on the river rocks below it. I can’t wait to share posts with you and read your ideas. A challenge Let’s reach for…