Finding Joy in the Presence of God
Carole Leathem “I take time to brew my coffee” is my goto answer when I’m asked the question, How do you find so much joy when your life is such…
Does Your Perspective Need a Polish?
Marlene Houk Like Christopher Robin in a Winnie-the-Pooh episode called “Cleanliness Is Next to Impossible,” I too encountered his evil nemesis, the Crud monster, when spring cleaning my home for…
Heart-to-Heart Video Encouragement from Summer Cover Girl Pam Farrel
Leading Hearts: Heart to Heart With Pam Farrel from Leading Hearts Magazine on Vimeo.
Click on the video above to get some morning encouragement from our Summer Cover Girl Pam Farrel: Discovering Joy in Philippians. To get this issue free text LEADINGHEARTS to 64600 or go to leadinghearts.com.
Summer Issue Sneak Peek: Pam Farrel Shares the Secret to Loving Well
by Pam Farrel @PamFarrel in Leading Hearts Magazine
Philippians is a book about joy — and it is also a book about practices that bring joy to relationships. In my book 7 Simple Skills for Every Woman, I share:
“If your vertical relationship with God is healthy, your horizontal relationships with people will be healthier too.”
To make sure this happens, I spend time with God’s Word in fresh ways so that it washes through me and into all my relationships. In our newest book, Discovering Joy in Philippians: A Creative Bible Study Experience, three authors (Jean E Jones, artist Karla Dornacher and I) offer numerous creative ways to explore and experience God’s Word.
Reclaim Your Happy Space
by Beth Duewel and Rhonda Rhea in Leading Hearts Magazine
Does your happy ever need a reno?
All of us can sometimes put our happy spaces in weird places. People get caught up, for instance, in the thread count of their sheets. Thread count. If it’s not Egyptian cotton in a thread count impressive enough to require a greater number of stacks of cash in the bank than the count of the threads in the sheets, suddenly that bed is just not a happy place. It’s all about the thread count. The math is not uncomplicated.
The two of us, Beth and Rhonda, maintain that everyone is getting a little too caught up in the thread count, when shouldn’t the crumb count be a bigger deal? We were talking about it the other day and discovered that we don’t really like the idea of snacking in bed—mostly because we don’t like the idea of sheets that are too…how can we put it…exfoliat-ey. But then later we decided the fact that we’re not bed-snackers might actually be more about the other fact that neither of our husbands are big into exfoliation either.