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Weekly Wallpaper // 156 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 156

Prepare the way of the Lord. // Luke 3:4 This week's beautiful wallpaper is from Katrina of Rose Harrington. Download your F R E E wallpapers right here --->>> Phone...
Christmas Cards: Who, What, When, and Why? - Blessed Is She

Christmas Cards: Who, What, When, and Why?

Ah, Christmas! The season when we actually look forward to mail. Well, that is until the credit card bills start pouring in. Envelopes that don’t resemble statements arrive alongside catalogs...
When the Holidays Make Your Grief Bigger - Blessed Is She

When the Holidays Make Your Grief Bigger

Everyone has a story. When I meet people for the first time and express genuine interest in their lives, many respond dismissively. “Oh, my life isn’t that exciting. It’s pretty...
The Serenity Prayer and Letting it Go - Blessed Is She

The Serenity Prayer and Letting it Go

Often, I feel like Queen Elsa in the 2013 Disney film, Frozen, with "let it go" repeating in my head like a scratched record or a warped mix tape warbling...
Celebrating St. Nicholas Day: Unique Ideas - Blessed Is She

Celebrating St. Nicholas Day: Unique Ideas

I’m not going to lie, friends. Prior to writing this post, I did not know much about St. Nicholas. Sure, I knew the familiar Christmas tunes, the heated debates of...
A Great Light // The 2018 Advent Gathering - Blessed Is She

A Great Light // The 2018 Advent Gathering

Every year, in the midst of Advent, we as a sisterhood take pause for a one-day retreat together. Although we're scattered throughout the entire world, we carve out time in...
Advent and Christmas Books for Children - Blessed Is She

Advent and Christmas Books for Children

Sitting down with my children and opening one of our treasured Advent and Christmas picture books has become a dear part of our seasonal family traditions. There is something magical...
A Marriage Blessing - Blessed Is She

A Marriage Blessing

It all started when my grandma came home from Rome a few summers ago. She said, “Oh Honey! There were all these couples in their wedding attire meeting the Pope....
Shepherd + King - Blessed Is She

Shepherd + King

The King of love my shepherd is, whose goodness fails me never; I nothing lack if I am his, and He is mine forever. Where streams of living water flow...
Let's Not Talk the Talk - Blessed Is She

Let's Not Talk the Talk

When I started out in the working world, my older sister gave me some advice about gossip. She said I should never say anything to anyone that I would not...
On Gratitude and Choosing Joy - Blessed Is She

On Gratitude and Choosing Joy

Thanksgiving seemingly always comes out of nowhere. Isn’t that the case every year? Suddenly it is that time of year in which we are running around, making plans, preparing good...
4 Ways to Find Leisure in an Over-Scheduled World - Blessed Is She

4 Ways to Find Leisure in an Over-Scheduled World

I don’t find it coincidental that today we find phrases like Breathe and Slow Down on the front of t-shirts, coffee mugs, and other assorted paraphernalia. Our societal “keep up...