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  • Purposeful Living

    15 Bible Verses About Hospitality: Plus Creative Ideas

    March 13, 2025 /

    Most people think of hosting guests for meals or overnight visits when they hear the word hospitality.  Yet hospitality is much more than opening our homes.  We can offer hospitality anywhere by opening our hearts to others.  Today, we’ll look at 15 Bible verses about hospitality. Then, we’ll explore eight creative and low-key ways to extend the gift of hospitality.  Be sure to read to the end of today’s post for a free devotional eBook to help you carry God’s love wherever you go. Let’s start with seeing what God’s Word says about hospitality. 15 Bible Verses About Hospitality Here are 15 Bible verses about being hospitable. Bible Verses About…

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  • Purposeful Living

    The Gift of Hospitality: 5 Skills to Cultivate the Gift

    February 9, 2025 /

    When we think of hospitality, most of us think of welcoming people into our homes and sharing meals.  However, the gift of hospitality extends far beyond good cooking and decorating.  True hospitality is the gift of creating safe spaces where others feel loved and cared for. This can happen in our homes, but it can also happen in our workplaces, communities, and beyond. Today, we’ll begin by discussing the gift of hospitality.  Then, we’ll explore creative ways to offer the gift in unexpected places.  Be sure to read to the end of today’s post for a free resource to help you offer the gift of hospitality without perfection. The Gift…

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    6 Prayers for Loving Others Even When They’re Hard to Love

    May 21, 2025

    5 Steps to Take When You’re Feeling Uninspired

    April 7, 2021

    Honor God With Your Body: 12 Practical Ways

    October 10, 2025
  • Purposeful Living

    15 Tips for Camping With Kids: How to Make Amazing Memories!

    July 10, 2024 /

    Last summer, our family embarked on an 11-day camping road trip.  As we prepare for this summer’s similar road trip, I’ve been reflecting on last year’s journey.  Today, I’m sharing tips for camping with kids as well as a few reflections from last summer’s adventure. (If you’re eager to get to the camping tips, scroll to the bottom of this post!) Tips for Camping With Kids Twenty years ago, I wouldn’t have considered an 11-day road trip across the country an epic adventure.  Throughout my twenties, it was no big deal to drive from my home in Pennsylvania to the Rockies.  One summer, I even made the trek twice. In…

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    15 Back to School Bible Verses for the New Year

    September 10, 2025

    A Glimpse Into Our Family Road Trip to the Rockies

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    Bible Verses About God’s Plan for Us: 15 Scriptures

    March 21, 2018
  • Purposeful Living

    7 Refreshing Bible Verses (and 11 Ways to Be Refreshed)

    April 5, 2023 /

    Yesterday morning, I awoke with a deep desire to go to the woods—to inhale the scent of the creek bottom, decomposing maple leaves, and pungent earth.  As I sat with my Bible, I was reminded that God wanted to renew my mind with his written Word, and I let the following refreshing Bible verses wash over me. 7 Refreshing Bible Verses Do you long for the refreshment that comes from God alone? I invite you to soak in these words today as well.  Be sure to read to the end of today’s post for a free devotional to refresh you when you feel worn and weary. Refreshing Bible Verses for…

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    7 Back-to-School Prayers for the New School Year

    August 12, 2020

    7 Uplifting Prayers of Gratitude to God

    June 19, 2024

    Seeking God’s Wisdom: Are You Praying or Ruminating?

    August 10, 2022
  • Purposeful Living

    My Favorite Prayer Guide of 2022: Hidden Manna on a Country Road

    November 18, 2022 /

    Cinnamon-colored sycamore leaves fall slowly, surrendering to the earth.  I hold one in my hand, and it covers my flesh like a glove.  For an instant, my mind drifts away from the problems of work and home.  Peace cloaks me, and I think about the book that’s been serving as my prayer guide this autumn. In her new book Hidden Manna on a Country Road: Seeing God’s Daily Provision All Around Us, Sarah Geringer writes: “When I feel the overwhelm of a bigger-than-me situation, I know it’s time to hit the gravel road and pray it out, surrendering it so I can experience God’s peace. I also know that whether…

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    How to be Hospitable With Less Stress: 10 Easy Ways

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  • Purposeful Living

    5 Creative Ways to Offer Hospitality This Summer

    June 9, 2021 /

    Daylight comes early now.  Hummingbirds suck down our sugary syrup before the slow drip of black coffee has even begun.  Summer is the season of long, lush days that open wide with possibilities.  It’s the season for picnics and bonfires – fireflies and s’mores. Summer is also the perfect season to offer hospitality. You might think of cookouts and sparklers when you think of summer hospitality. However, hospitality involves more than just opening our homes; it’s about opening our hearts.  We can offer hospitality anywhere. We weren’t made to do life alone.  Every time you open your heart and life to someone else, you extend hospitality.  This can happen in a…

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    Managing Holiday Stress: 10 Insights for Peace

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    8 Life-Changing Prayers for Your Kids

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    10 Bible Verses About Serving Others in Hidden Places

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  • Transformation

    15 Bible Verses About Joy and Happiness

    November 25, 2020 /

    We all face difficult times in life.  Even in these times, we can experience the joy of the Lord by standing on his promises.  Today, we’ll explore 15 Bible verses about joy and happiness. I’ll also share a moment when God reminded me of a simple principle for joy in life. I also invite you to read to the end of today’s post for a free devotional eBook to help you live with greater joy in the Lord. Let’s begin with the Word. 15 Bible Verses About Joy and Happiness Here are 15 encouraging Bible verses about joy and happiness Bible Verses About Joy and Happiness 1. Philippians 4:4 (ESV)…

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    Overcoming Hindrances to Spiritual Growth: 11 Obstacles

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    15 Bible Verses About Attitude: Why It Matters

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    Why Is Motherhood So Hard? (Encouragement for Weary Moms)

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  • Purposeful Living

    6 Outdoor Hospitality Ideas for Autumn

    October 16, 2020 /

    There’s a single-file row of foxtail grass bending over the roadside like a line of school children dropping pennies off a bridge.  Oddly enough, seeing them posed over the gravel gets me thinking about gathering with others and embracing autumn’s invitation for offering outdoor hospitality.  It gets me thinking about standing with others to admire the season as it unfolds all around us. A few years ago, I wrote a series of posts on how to offer hospitality that changes lives (Check out the most popular post in this series here: 8 Surprising Ways to Extend Hospitality). The underlying message woven throughout these posts was this: Hospitality is the art…

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    Scripture About God’s Presence: 7 Verses With Applications

    August 25, 2021

    7 Encouraging Bible Verses for Moms Who Feel Weary

    June 30, 2021

    How to Raise Frog Eggs and Have a Blast Doing It

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  • Purposeful Living

    8 Free Family-Friendly Outdoor Activities

    March 27, 2020 /

    Are you looking for family-friendly outdoor activities? Our family has made getting our kids outdoors a high priority, and the results are powerful.  I’m revisiting this post today now that our oldest is a teenager, and I’m grateful that she still loves spending time outdoors. 8 Free Family-Friendly Outdoor Activities If you’re looking for free outdoor activities for your family during this time, you’re in the right place. Here’s our family’s list of fun ways to enjoy the outdoors together. Family-Friendly Outdoor Activities: 1. Wildlife Scavenger Hunts For this activity, I create a list of items we are likely to see in the forest near our home: pinecones, different colored…

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    8 Life-Changing Prayers for Your Daughter

    March 22, 2023

    15 Bible Verses for Mothers and Daughters

    November 27, 2022

    8 Bible Verses About Abundant Life in Christ

    October 13, 2021
  • Overcoming Trials

    10 Bible Verses for Weariness (Plus 5 Tips for Weary Days)

    February 26, 2020 /

    The snow blows past like a horizontal wall of white.  I stare at the thousands of tiny flakes like maybe this is heaven’s way of touching this muddy earth.  I’m running on fumes all over again this morning, and I open my Bible in search of a few Bible verses for weariness. Maybe you can relate. You might be weary from the demands of a career that is wearing you down, children who rely on you day and night, or something else.  Today, we’ll look at ten Bible verses for weariness and explore five tips for tired days. 10 Bible Verses for Weariness I encourage you to soak in these…

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I'm Stacey, and I spend my days exploring wild places with my three kids and writing words in the quiet moments. I've been everything from a high school teacher to a solo backpacker. I've done plenty of running from God, but he has pursued me. He's pursuing you too. This page will help you respond to his pursuit.

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