Each day during The PURSE-onality Challenge: "A Holiday-Ready Heart" in October, Untangling Christmas by Karen Ehman and LeAnn Rice, will be our give-away prize! 
Day 14: TRUST (+ How Each PURSE-onality Can Get Day Overwhelmed)
Day 15: PATIENT (+ Practicing Now for Patience Then)
Day 16: NO RECORD (+ How to Have Grudge-Free Holidays)
Day 17: TRUTH (Each PURSE-onality's Take on Truth)
Day 18: PERSEVERE (+2 Cures for Procrastination)
Day 19: BLESS (Your Feelings Can Help You Choose)
Day 20: BUILDING (20+ Ways to Build with Words)
Day 21: HOLD (Hold Back, Let Go, and Step Up)
Day 22: FRUIT (I Didn't Think...I Was a People-Pleaser!)
Day 23: CLEANSE (A Holiday-Ready Home)
Day 24: REJOICE (We Share the Same Heart Rate)
Day 15: PATIENT (+ Practicing Now for Patience Then)
Day 16: NO RECORD (+ How to Have Grudge-Free Holidays)
Day 17: TRUTH (Each PURSE-onality's Take on Truth)
Day 18: PERSEVERE (+2 Cures for Procrastination)
Day 19: BLESS (Your Feelings Can Help You Choose)
Day 20: BUILDING (20+ Ways to Build with Words)
Day 21: HOLD (Hold Back, Let Go, and Step Up)
Day 22: FRUIT (I Didn't Think...I Was a People-Pleaser!)
Day 23: CLEANSE (A Holiday-Ready Home)
Day 24: REJOICE (We Share the Same Heart Rate)
Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for Mary DeMuth’s new book Everything!
Here's the trailer for Everything (you might recognize at least one face!):
(Can't see video? Click here to view Everything trailer via YouTube!)
(Can't see video? Click here to view Everything trailer via YouTube!)
I’ve invited other members of the Everything Launch Team to share their blog posts in the Link-Up before the Rafflecopter. I hope you’ll be as blessed as I’ve been by visiting their blogs and hearing their hearts!
And if you’d like to enter to win a KitchenAid stand mixer in “Everything blue,” check out Mary’s Pin It and Win It contest!
Here are the blogs I wrote as I read Everything in September:
And here are a few thoughts for today:
During the holy-days, I want to focus on thanks-giving.
I want to focus on Christ-mas.
I want to focus on Christ-mas.
But I get caught up in “everything else” so easily:
- the chatter in my head
- circumstances outside of me and my control
- events that trigger an impulsive, “Why, God?”
- that ever-present, oh-so-personal bully: perfectionism
- busy-ness that back-burners my time with Him
- a copped attitude I wanna keep just a little longer
- seeing the storm rather than the storm-stiller
- the bogs of I want, I wish, and I have to
Let your gentleness be evident to all.
The Lord is near.
Philippians 4:5 (NIV)
The Lord is near.
He gave up everything
to be my everything
so I can become everything
He created me to be.
Emmanuel: God With Us!
(For “everything else” there’s…)
Your Turn:
- What "everything else" are you planning now to not get caught up in then?
- What does Emmanuel -- God with us -- mean to you today?
- Anything else on your heart!
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