Positively (Im)perfect

Congrats to winner Sarah Z.! Thanks to all who entered - if and when a future edition of this sold-out planner becomes available, you will be the first to know! Alrighty friends. Because I'm nice... And because you're awesome... But mostly thanks to another Blessed is She writer who so generously gifted me my own coveted Blessed is She liturgical planner... I decided to buy an extra Blessed is She Planner and give it away to you . Woohooo! Once again, because I'm nice, I'll make this post short and sweet so we can get to what you really care about, which is how to enter already! For those who missed my last post , all the features of this amazing liturgical year planner are below. Also, FYI: the planners are going like hot cakes -- honestly way faster than we projected. As I write this, 75% have already been sold on pre-order. Soooo if you want one and don't want to take any chances on them selling out before you snag one, feel fre

It's been awhile since I've mentioned Blessed is She, so I think it's high time I update you on all the happy things going on! As you may (or may not) know by now, Blessed is She is an incredible--and free!--women's devotional ministry, dedicated to sharing relevant devotions every single day based on daily scripture readings. I have the privilege of being a very small part the Blessed is She team, which is chock full of  astonishingly beautiful and talented volunteer writers, artists, and theologians. It's honestly amazing to see how this ministry has evolved exponentially over the past two years to meet the needs and desires brought to us by women of faith from all over the world. What was once a little Holy Spirit nudge in Jenna (our founder's) direction is now a community of faith-filled women who share in each other's lives, support each other online and in person, and grow together through scripture studies and workshops and even in Blessed is She

Peace begins with us. It is determined by our internal reactions to the world, in our outward response to others, and most organically in the choice to look beyond ourselves and love those most different from us.  Mercy, I know how often and how easily I fall short in this. Let us pray and commit more fervently today than ever to be the ones to accept God's call to love, to restore each other's dignity, to sow love and plant peace in our shattered world.  Will you pray with me now? Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying to self that w

This quarter proves that I am both bibliophile and human. Compared with the six books I read in the first three months of the year, this quarter I've barely squeaked out two! Life, man. Here's the run down: Eyes in the Water Monica Lee Kennedy [website] This is the second book in the Parting Breath Series, preceded by The Land's Whisper  (which I tripped all over myself to tell you about last quarter). Having read a few other authors/books before getting my hands on this sequel as soon as it was released, it's safe to say that this author and series remain cemented at the top of my list for all-time best writing and storytelling. Whether or not fantasy is your usual genre of choice (it's really not mine), these books are just that good and trancend genre in terms of being able to expertly entertain a very broad audience. As Monica herself described it, this novella is a whip of a read, which I was [not surprisingly] immediately sucked into and