Growing Graceful

by Linda

Recipe: Gluten-Free, Cranberry Almond Bread (Sourdough)

If there is one food that speaks of Christmas traditions to me, it would be Candy Cane Cookies. And they’re not even peppermint, right? It’s almond. I love it. I’ve been known to bake out those cookies all year long. . . just roll them into a ball and flatten them. No fancy shapes and […]

by Linda

Treasuring These Days, & Our New Family Photo

Hello friend! Family photos are great. You never know what you are going to get back, and there are always these little tell tales that speak so loudly about this season in life, frozen in time. 🙂 Many thanks to Angela out at Camp Jim for taking our family staff photos and sending me this […]

by Linda

Growing in the Fruit of Faithfulness

~This devotional was used by our women’s group in conjunction with a study from Elizabeth George’s book, A Woman’s Walk With God, Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit.~ George calls her chapter on Faithfulness, “Following Through in Faithfulness”. She has built this picture of how love, joy and peace change hearts. As a result, […]

by Linda

What Happens When Women Pray

Every year or so, there is a theme that God chooses to teach me. One year it was Biblical Womanhood, another it was Gratitude, yet another was Being Established. The past 2 years have been on the topic of Prayer. Have you ever shopped for books written about prayer?? Oh, my goodness, there are SO […]

by Linda

How Putting Up the Christmas Tree Turned into a Teachable Moment

While unplugging and re-plugging light strands, removing and replacing bulbs, and playing with the dimmer switch on these newfangled lights… my kids grasped, for a few moments, how important they are to the Church Body, and to bringing Jesus’ light to the world…. and this teachable moment is one we can refer back to throughout the year, and relive again next Christmas.