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8 Simple Ideas for a Peaceful Christmas Season
If you pay attention to the noisy media at all, you’ll see hundreds of ways to have the perfect Christmas season. Perfect. Just buy this, do that, wear this, go here, bake these. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought, and I realize how often I have believed the...
Five Christ-Centered Ways to Celebrate Easter
Holy Week is my favorite season of the church year–a sacred stretch of days filled with reverence,...
9 Ways to Invite the Psalms into Your Lent Devotions
In this post, I share a new-to-me practice for Lent: meditating on the seven penitential psalms....
Visual Prayer: A Simple Prayer Practice to Give New Life to Your Prayers
In this post, I share a simple practice that has given new life to my prayers: visual prayer. I...
Why We Should Read Poetry & How to Start
(Updated for 2025.) I love poetry. As a literature student and English teacher, I’ve always loved...
10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
In this post, I’m sharing ten creative ways to celebrate love this Valentine’s Day. Because...
Cozy Books to Read This Winter
Snow is gently falling outside my window as I write this post. Times like these, nothing seems...