
Which Swing Thoughts are Helpful?
Collecting meaningful lessons is a joy for me! And the real delight comes from God producing the fruit through our application.
“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” (Philippians 4:9, KJV)
Did you catch the most important 2-letter word in there?

Decluttering Our Homes and Our Minds
Decluttering is FREEING!
Decluttering our homes and our minds feels fantastic and I think God put that desire in us.

Favorite Easter Activity with Kids
Do you hide Easter baskets for your kids to find? This was one of the traditions I carried forward from my childhood.

7 Spiritual Lessons Learned from Having Covid
Our January unexpectedly turned into one long quarantine as our family got Covid. My husband and I started symptoms at the exact same time...

Rhythms and Why They Matter
Have you ever read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg? I loved listening to the audio version from our library and it spurred some changes in my life. That's also how I enjoyed Atomic Habits.

Feeding Your Family, Part 1
I started to read through Proverbs 31 one morning last week. It has been 5 days and I’m still not finished!
Each time I re-read it, I am learning something new, so I’ve decided to stay in it a little longer.

10 Recommendations for Enjoying Sex More in Marriage
Did you remember what you wanted to do when you were little?
I tossed around the idea of becoming a teacher or pursuing something to do with business . . .
Then I learned you could get paid to listen to people talk about their marriage and try to help them!

Our Valentine’s Day Tradition
Early on in marriage, Mark and I were living in California, each earning $10 an hour, and still committed to maintaining the rhythm of Tuesday night date nights that we implemented only a few weeks into our dating relationship.

15 Questions to Ask on Your Next Date Night
Date night is one of the highlights in my life. It seems luxurious, pours into my most important earthly relationship, feels like a vacation, and proves to be extremely profitable!
If you are reading this right now, I assume you value date night too!

Four Beautiful Ways to Keep Scripture Top of Mind
The two physical things I have access to now that will also be in Heaven are people and God’s Word. Therefore, I want to invest my life into relationships and Scripture because I desire to spend my life on anything that will outlast it!