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  • Vision Boarding with Focus in my Planner

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    Last week I took the vison-boarding concept to my quarterly planner. Typically, at the start of a new journal or planner, I’ll go through magazines to find images words that appeal to me and glue them into the opening spread to remind me where I want my focus to be. I’ve use quotes, words, pictures…

  • Flourishing, calming and remaining… and heading into Week 24 of Bible 180

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    Last week was a hard week. Reading His Word daily kept me going, kept me looking forward in the midst of pain. I hope it did the same for you. As I was reading each day, there was so much I wanted to share, but this morning I struggle in sharing them. I worry that…

  • Week 23 of Bible 180: Asking, Seeking, Knocking….

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    Good morning sweet friends and Happy New Year to you!!! I am so glad you are here and I am so glad you are reading the Bible with me! By the end of this week, we will have read through all 4 of the gospels AND we will have made our way deep into Acts….…

  • Bible 180: Week 22/ 2nd week in New Testament!!!!

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    Happy Monday morning, sweet friends! It’s the last week of the year and yet the second week of a glorious new beginning as we move into the second week of the New Testament! When I first planned this schedule out, I didn’t like that we wouldn’t wrap up our reading by the end of the…

  • Week 21 of Bible 180: Bring on the New Testament!!!

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    Welcome to the New Testament!! Good morning sweet friends!!! Can you believe we are launching into the New Testament today?? I’m sooo excited. And I love God’s timing… that he inspired a schedule that brings us right where we are, right as we are preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ. How cool is that?!…

  • Read the New Testament with me starting tomorrow… & carry Christmas with you beyond the 25th

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    Tomorrow/ Monday, 12-21 we start the New Testament! I’ve been reading the Old Testament with friends on the internet, sweet MomsToolbox readers, for 140 days with Bible 180. Tomorrow we hit day 141 of the entire Bible… and the FIRST DAY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT!!!! Have you ever wanted to read the Bible? Or….. Are…

  • Week 20 of Bible 180– Wrapping up the Old Testament!!!

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    Weekly Update, take 2! Whew! Yesterday morning sure gave me a start when I popped online to work on the reading schedule bookmark, post it for you and then start my day in the Word! I was unable to access anything on any of my Google accounts (business or personal) and, well, that was NOT…

  • Eek!! Google outtage= Bible 180 Grace Day

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    Good morning sweet readers. Unfortunately, when I fired up my laptop this morning, Google was down which meant I couldn’t access our reading schedule to post!! (I keep it on a Google Doc.) We originally had a grace day scheduled for this coming Sunday, after the last scheduled day of reading in the Old Testament.…

  • Bible 180: Week 19… YOWZA

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    OKay, WOW! I’m just gonna put it put there… Did anyone else struggle in reading Ezekiel this week? This book has not been easy for me, AT ALL. So much destruction, so much vengeance… and yet all of the Lords’ actions are 100% justified. I kept thinking going back to my relationship with Christ and…

  • Bible 180: Week 18 & Praying for the Unreached

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    Whew! Last week’s reading was TOUGH! There was so much sadness, so much strife. It made me truly thankful for knowing Jesus Christ, for knowing forgiveness and mercy and grace. Living during that time, or living at any time without knowing Christ would be really, really awful. Can you imagine struggling with such awful times,…

  • Bible 180: Week 17- Return to Him

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    Welcome to week 17! Whew! I don’t know how you felt but, to me, Isaiah was A LOT to read. There was a lot of yuckiness, but one strand that kept it all hopeful for me was the echoing refrain of returning to Him, of redemption. Looking back over my notes for the week, I…

  • Bible 180, Week 16

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    Welcome, dear readers! Whew! Isaiah is not easy reading… at least not for me. I love reading joy, happiness, and wisdom… and this held lots of doom and gloom and struggle. Ouch. It made me so thankful for eternity with Christ, though, that is for sure. I didn’t take many notes as I was reading.…

  • My new virtual wine tasting channel….

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    Anyone up for joining me in some engaging and just plain fun conversations about wine… perhaps while tasting the wine? I’ve got ya covered. You might know of VineSleuth, my startup where we use flavor data to recommend wine and beers through software– like a personal digital sommelier. Well, with all the COVID-19 lock downs,…

  • Week 15 of Bible 180: Y’ALL! We hit Day 100 this week!

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    Oh my goodness, y’all! We have been reading the Bible together every single day for quite some time now. Isn’t it AMAZING that Tuesday will mark 100 days of this? Wow! (I have booked some celebration time for you that day.) I am so grateful to have you reading alongside me. It means so much…

  • Week 14 of Bible 180– So many ways to pray!

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    Hello and welcome to Week 14 of Bible 180. We are more than halfway through this session of reading the Bible cover to cover together. How exciting is that? We are more than knee deep in the Psalms, and this week we will cross over into not only Proverbs but also Ecclesiastes. Whew! One of…