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God Wants You to Fail

God's Vision

A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a contributing writer to the Allume blog.  I looked through the list of contributing writers and swallowed hard.

(Eep).

I was more than a little afraid I’d trip all over my prepositional phrases and flat-out fail in front of all the real writers and big-time bloggers.

As I struggled through writing my first post, God kind of hijacked the whole thing and whispered in my ear, “May you fail.”

That is not what I want God to say to me when I write.  But it was exactly what I needed to hear. 

Today, my inaugural post is up.  It’s a little raw and a little real and a little not-what-I’d-planned to write.  It’s about coming to terms with the fact that God wants me to fail.  If you read along, I think you will find that God wants you to fail too.  And it’s okay.  

Won’t you join me?

8 Ways to Eat Healthy

8 Ways to Eat Healthy

And for something completely different, I had the privilege of writing a post for the Fit2B blog yesterday.  I’ve been following Beth’s exercises to help heal my diastasis, so when she asked for some help writing a few posts on nutrition, I jumped at the chance.  I have not been writing much about health and nutrition lately because I’m trying to follow a few blogging rules (focus, focus, focus), but if you know me, you know that nutrition is a passion of mine.

But for most of us, eating healthy is hard. 

In my post for Beth, I offer 8 tips to help you get a handle on healthy eating.  And guess what?  They’re all easy. 

Enjoy the blog hop!  Tomorrow, I’ll be back here with something new.

–Kristen

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Win Handcrafted Soaps and more! 1K Giveaway {7}

This giveaway is now closed!  Thank you all for participating! 

Today’s giveaway prizes have a day of rest in mind.  As moms, it’s hard to find a moment to ourselves, much less a whole day!  These gifts will help you find that quiet moment you need to recharge.

The first giveaway winner will receive a beautiful package of indulgent handcrafted bath and personal care items from Sharon Rowland at Lovin’ the Lather.   Sharon personally designs and creates each item on her website, from soaps to lip balms to personal care products.  She uses real ingredients you can feel good about using and putting on your children.  Plus, they are gorgeous!   I love the variety and creativity of her products.

handcrafted soaps

Tea Rose and Vanilla Shea

Sharon is blessing one winner with a spa package including a Tea Rose and Vanilla Shea soap (pictured above), plus her handcrafted lip balm which comes in a variety of fun flavors!

Lip gloss

Be sure to check out her website and Facebook page for an extra entry!

Next, my bloggy friend Laurie Wallin of Living Power Life Coaching is offering one winner this beautiful journal.

journal

It has almost 200 pages for you to record your thoughts, ramblings, or doodles.  Or, you can sign up for one of Laurie’s powerful online coaching classes and use it to record your growth!

Laurie

This is Laurie

If you haven’t met Laurie yet, she has a passion to help women discover their joy!  When you visit her website, you can even download her free e-book, Embrace the Crazy: Practical Ideas for When Life Seems Impossible!  Boy, we all have days like that, don’t we?

The final prize of the day comes from author Jessie Gunderson.  She has been published in a devotional book humorously titled If I Can Do All Things Through Christ Why Can’t I Find My Car Keys?  It includes a “year’s worth of weekly devotions to help women on-the-go find a moment to spend with God.”  Anyone around here need that?

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Best family picture.  Ever.

If you hop over to Jessie’s blog, you’ll soon see that one of the reasons I love her is because she has a heart for children.  Also, her family wears great hats and takes funny pictures.

She and her family are sacrificially saving and raising money to adopt two children from Ethiopia.  In fact, the proceeds of the book above don’t go to buying the Gunderson’s a new car or a the most fashionable new shoes.  Nope.  They’re using the money to redeem an African brother and sister out of a life of poverty.  That just gets to my heart.  I hope you’ll visit her and let her know you’ll be praying!

How to Enter

1) I like to keep giveaways simple.  All you have to do to be entered for this giveaway is to comment below!  That’s it!  It would be fabulous if you also subscribed to my blog, followed me on Twitter, or liked my Facebook page, but I can’t make that a requirement because of Facebook policies (and it also complicates things and that sort of defeats the whole “simple” thing).

2) Now, I know some of you are over-achievers and want to do more to increase your chances of winning.  Okay. Here you go: you  may earn extra entries by visiting and commenting on our sponsors’ blogs, Facebook, or Twitter pages.  Why not subscribe, like, or follow them while you’re there?  Come back here and leave a separate comment to let me know you went a-visiting so I can enter your name twice.

3) Share any story from Five in Tow that has impacted you.  You can even share the giveaway!  Comment below (in a separate comment from any of the above) with the title of the post you shared and you’ll earn a third entry.

4) This giveaway will remain open for three days.  I will draw two winners on February 5 at 4 pm PST and notify the winners.  Prizes will be delivered by the sponsors within 4-6 weeks.

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Win Norwex Cloths and more! 1K Giveaway {Day 6}

This giveaway is now closed!  Congratulations to winners Renee and Kelly!

I can’t believe we’ve gotten to Day 6 of the giveaway!  Monday and Tuesday’s giveaways are closed, but you still have time to enter the others!

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Today, I am happy to give away some of my favorite products: Norwex!  Norwex is a company committed to truly green cleaning.  They have developed a high-quality microfiber fiber that is imbedded with silver threads.  The microfiber is so powerful, you can clean anything with nothing but water.  Plus, Silver is naturally antibacterial, so after cleaning, all you have to do is rinse out and hang the cloths and they will self-purify in time for the next cleaning.

Norwex

*Actual prize package will include several different products, including a body cloth, pictured above.

My friend Andrea is the one who introduced me to Norwex by sending me a box full of stuff.  I had no idea what to do with half of it, and now I can’t live without it!  She is giving away a body care package to one winner!  This includes a body cloth, a face cloth, and Norwex’s luxurious chapstick.  If you want to know more about these great cloths, read the review I did about them for another giveaway, or visit Andrea’s website and earn a second entry!

My second prize for the day comes from another West Coast Christian Blogger-buddy, Vicki Lucas.  She is a Christian fiction writer–a Christian fantasy writer, to be exact.  She wrote the book Toxic for the young adult audience (but since when should the teenagers have all the fun?).

Toxic

Now, I am a big fan of the fiction genre, and it is my belief that Christians should be more involved in the creative arts, including Christian fiction.  I am always a little (a lot) disappointed that the majority of Christian fiction is romance.  HOWEVER…I won’t talk about that now.

Instead, let’s take a look into Vicki’s imagination:

“Toxic is the first in a series set in Eltiria where Kai, Taryn, and Lizzy have to purify the toxic water before anyone else dies. If they don’t, evil may rule the world forever. A Winged Horse sets them on the search to locate the source of the poison, escape from the monsters, and to find their faith while battling to see the truth in a world of chaos and destruction.”

Don’t worry if you get hooked on it–she’s writing a sequel!  Check out her Facebook page to keep informed of her progress!

How to Enter

1) I like to keep giveaways simple.  All you have to do to be entered for this giveaway is to comment below!  That’s it!  It would be fabulous if you also subscribed to my blog, followed me on Twitter, or liked my Facebook page, but I can’t make that a requirement because of Facebook policies (and it also complicates things and that sort of defeats the whole “simple” thing).

2) Now, I know some of you are over-achievers and want to do more to increase your chances of winning.  Okay. Here you go: you  may earn extra entries by visiting and commenting on our sponsors’ blogs, Facebook, or Twitter pages.  Why not subscribe, like, or follow them while you’re there?  Come back here and leave a separate comment to let me know you went a-visiting so I can enter your name twice.

3) Share any story from Five in Tow that has impacted you.  You can even share the giveaway!  Comment below (in a separate comment from any of the above) with the title of the post you shared and you’ll earn a third entry.

4) This giveaway will remain open for three days.  I will draw two winners on February 4 at 4 pm PST and notify the winners.  Prizes will be delivered by the sponsors within 4-6 weeks.

5) Don’t forget!  You still have two days to enter yesterday’s giveaway if you have not already done so, along with the previous two days of giveaways!  Wednesday’s giveaway closes today at 4 pm PST.  Don’t miss it!   Come back tomorrow for two more great prizes!  You can see the complete list here.

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