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Why To-Do Lists are Overrated and What List You Need Instead

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I once took this amazing course from Elayna Fernandez, The Positive Mom, called Stepping Into Balance. She really challenged me during the course as she pushed me toward a new way of thinking about goal creation, what a balanced life looks like, what my passions and purpose are, and how to deal with anger and frustrations in new ways. And a ...

25+ Advent Scripture Calendars to Help You Focus on Christ

One of the easiest simplest, yet most important ways you can countdown to Christmas, is by doing an advent scripture calendar. Every day for 24 days, your advent calendar with scriptures shares a scripture referencing the Savior, his impending birth, His actual birth, or shares a small part of the nativity story. I shared many of these ...

Why Wearing Modest Clothes Isn’t Making You Modest

It can be so hard to define modesty, as modesty is a virtue but often defined by whether or not something is deemed modesty clothing. Read on to get to the heart of what is modesty. A few years ago, a woman won the Miss Virginia pageant running on a platform of modesty. She said: I'm a firm believer in not just being modest, ...

12 Printable Positive Scripture Affirmations to Memorize in 2019

If you want to memorize positive scriptures in 2019, here are 12 fantastic positive Biblical scriptures you can embed within your heart and mind this year, helping you have a more positive attitude, preparing you for whatever may come ahead. "I'm sorry, what?!" "Did you know you were having twins? Because we would have booked you a longer ...

5 Smart Ways of Memorizing Scripture Yourself & with the Kids

Ever wanted help memorizing scripture? The following tips will help you memorize scripture yourself and then help your kids learn how to memorize scripture too! Have you ever had a moment when the perfect Bible verse popped into your head from memory, just when you needed it most? Maybe it was a word of encouragement or a bit of wisdom ...

Creative Advent Ornaments for Your Advent Calendar

If you are looking for some fun and creative or religious advent ornaments, this post has so many great ideas! From felt advent ornaments and wooden advent calendars with ornaments to Jesse Tree advent ornaments and other religious advent ornaments, this post has an idea for everyone! With Christmas coming closer with each passing day, I'm in ...

40+ Beautiful Nativity Ornaments to Buy Or Make in 2019

Below you will find a fantastic list of religious Christmas nativity ornaments!! Make your own nativity ornament or other homemade religious Christmas ornament to give away to Sunday School teacher, friends, and family or simply browse through the collection of beautiful nativity Christmas ornaments you can purchase! Every year my husband and I ...

12 Scriptures About God Worth Memorizing in 2018 {Free Printables}

Want to memorize scriptures about God this year? Want helpful free scripture printables to go along with them? Then you're in luck! Keep reading for 12 worthwhile scriptures about God to memorize in 2018! Last year, I wrote a post about 12 scriptures worth memorizing in 2017. In that post, I mentioned that I needed a way to up my scripture ...

How To Do Some Anonymous Gifting to Help Feed the Hungry

Interested in doing some anonymous gifting? Want to help a friend or neighbor you know who is struggling a bit to keep food on the table, but want to gift anonymously? Here is a great way to Feed the Hungry and do so in a fun and unknown way! Our second Christmas together, a year after our first anniversary, we were expecting twins. It was ...

The Prayer that Changed My Life

This post is sponsored by Mormon.org. All thoughts and opinions are my own. When I was in high school, one of my friends started making some bad choices, choices she and I both knew were not in line with what we had been taught at church in all of our many years of attending together. And I resented her for it. I couldn't stand to look at ...

Curing My Depression Took More than What Self-Help Books Recommended

This post is sponsored by Mormon.org. All opinions are my own. Last year, for the first time in my life, I felt depressed. I'm not talking about for a day or a week at a time, but persistently. Like most days sucked. I didn't mope, stay in bed all day, or cry endlessly, but I sure was angry. Mad even. Unhappy. And most of my ire was directed at ...

12 Scriptures Worth Your Time to Memorize in 2017 {Printables}

If 2017 is your year to find verses to memorize, the following 12 scriptures to memorize are good ones to learn. I hate to admit it but I need to step up my spiritual game. I lost my way a bit last year. It was a hard year, personally. But I feel like I'm finally back on the path. I just need something fun and exciting to keep me going. I ...