December 2009

12 Pearls of Christmas: Extra Stories

by gidget faith

Here are the remaining stories that I neglected to post due to too much relaxing, eating, giving and receiving gifts and all-around family Christmasy goodness. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them and if any of you commenters from the other posts won the pearls, you’ll be hearing after New Year’s (all comments are now closed). [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Perspective

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. A Soggy, Jolly, Holly Christmas by Melody Carlson One of my most memorable Christmases started out as a natural disaster. But isn’t [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Help & Support

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. Calling Elizabeth … HELP! by Tricia Goyer Mary, the mother of Jesus is one of the most well-known women of all time. [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: God Intervenes

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. The Answer by Susan May Warren Whos, Here, we are Whos here, smaller than the eye can see. Whos here, we are [...]

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Last Minute DIY Gift Idea: Kids’ Coaching Set

by gidget green & natural living

Have a sporty little one in your family? Here’s a gift we made for our nephew last year. All you need is a clipboard (even an old, re-purposed one since it will be covered), acrylic paint, scrapbooking paper, some mod podge, and some printed-out letters (I used font “Varsity Regular”). I painted the clipboard first, [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: He is Always Enough

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. Christmas in a Barn by Mary DeMuth The Christmas of 2006 we were homeless. We didn’t have keys. Not to a car, [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: Faith, Hope & Love

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. The Pearls We Pass Down by Holley Gerth Ten years ago my Grandma Frances went home to heaven in her sleep just [...]

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Announcing The Gracious Basket {Giveaway}

by gidget family

I’m so excited… one of my dearest college friends (pictured above with me in ’06) recently contacted me to tell me about a new business her family started called The Gracious Basket. Today I’m going to tell you a little about it and offer you a chance to win a gift certificate! Have you ever [...]

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12 Pearls of Christmas: God Provides a Way

by gidget faith

This post is part of a blog tour series from LitFuse Publicity and Pearl Girls. Every day I will be featuring daily inspirational stories, from now until Christmas, all written by guest authors. A Long Ago Christmas Memory by Patricia Crisafulli The old farm on a dirt road in the backwoods of northern New York [...]

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Give Water For Christmas

by gidget faith

It’s hard to peek outside our own little bubbles, as we feel frenzied with Christmas stress cheer, to stop and think about how truly blessed we are. To think about the fact that so many moms can’t even provide clean water for their families. I thought about this as I washed my daughter’s hands this [...]

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