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    Favor: Five Minute Fridays Link-Up

    January 24, 2025 - By 

    As part of my goal to write more in 2025, I decided to join back up with Five Minute Fridays Link-Ups as often as I can. Here is my post for this week’s prompt: Time begins now… When I saw today’s prompt of “favor“, I immediately thought of God’s favor and grace in salvation. Because I have been studying I Peter 1 lately, I have been considering God’s goodness in sovereignly sending His Son to die in my place. In I Peter 1, we see that it is also God’s grace that leads us to obedience and holiness. It is…

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    Goals and Intentions for 2025

    January 22, 2025 - By 

    Hello again, readers! Here we are, a few weeks into the new year, and perhaps the shine has already begun to wear off a little for some of you. I know that we are now over a week past what is now dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, the day when most average folks give up those fabulous New Year’s resolutions they made with such high hopes. I am also aware than many people who have slightly more realistic expectations don’t make resolutions but do set some time aside to reflect on ways to improve themselves going forward. In recent years, I have…

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    Knitting (and Crochet) Notes for January 2025

    January 15, 2025 - By 

    Happy Wednesday, readers! I hope this post finds you well. This week I wanted to share a little about my recent fiber crafting pursuits. One of my intentions for this year is to spend more time doing creative things that I enjoy and that beautify my life. I also am trying to move away from fast fashion and overconsumption in my wardrobe and home goods. One of the ways I can do that is knitting and crocheting some of the items I will use, making them with natural fibers that will last for many years. After several years of owning…

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    Reading Report, Vol. 23: My Literary Goals for 2025

    January 8, 2025 - By 

    As I promised in my first post of this new year, I am back this week with an update on my reading life. With all the stress of renovating, selling our house, packing up and moving across the country, and just normal daily life “stuff”, reading became very difficult for me in 2024. I would start books, only to drop them a chapter or two in. I would turn on an audio book only to mentally tune it out while my mind filled with distracted thoughts and to-do lists. In the evenings when I would normally have picked up a…

  • Life in General

    A Fresh Start

    January 1, 2025 - By 

    Dear Reader, I do not quite know how to begin a post here after such a long absence. I can give no eloquent explanation for why I suddenly stopped writing blogs for over a year. I just got busy doing other things, I suppose, and was perhaps feeling a bit uninspired. But lately I have been longing to get back here and write again, so I decided to make writing regular posts (hopefully weekly!) one of my projects for 2025. I have a lot of ideas for topics, but first, I think a general life update is in order! Six…