Having a weekly family meeting is an idea that I stole from my friend (and someone who is well known to my readers!) Jennifer Grant. We’ve been having family meetings, off and on, for about a year, and their importance and value has increased to us over time. Now, if we skip the meeting for […]
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For a few years I’ve been offering gratitude challenge calendars. Sometimes they’ve been free, other times for sale on the Etsy store. This year I’m splitting the difference. This year’s calendar (click to download) is free for personal use, but if you’d like to distribute it to your entire church or school community, I’m politely
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Spend just 2 minutes a day (or less) with each of these gratitude prompts either on your own or with someone in your family or church. Feel free to distribute on your church website or social media or to your families! Gratitude for November! Available as a PDF here. How have you done gratitude challenges
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Walking through Target and the grocery store this week, I’ve noticed something: Thanksgiving seems to be missing from the shelf. Pumpkins and ghost napkins are 50% off, and the empty space that’s left is being filled with stockings and gingerbread. Out with goblins and pumpkins, in with Santa and stockings. On the one hand, this
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Today’s Prompt: Write about one ordinary moment that happened yesterday. I looked up from my computer when Elias came into the room. “I found your other shoe,” he said.”It was in the shoe basket.” “Makes sense.” “I’ll put it here, with the other one by the front door, so you’ll have them in the morning.” I
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I often hear people who are suffering or struggling say some variation of “It could be worse.” We say it to ourselves: I shouldn’t complain, at least I don’t have [some illness worse than the one we’re discussing] My problems are small compared to all of the suffering in the world. At least my child is
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