Win a free Halloween Pail

How cute are these Halloween pails? My good friend Stephanie makes all kinds of cute personalized things and she has these CUTE, CUTE pails perfect for hauling all that candy your kids are sure to end up with! And the fun thing is they can use it year after year!

I'm giving away one free pail! I'll be drawing a winner on Friday afternoon!

And if you don't win - go here - http://ifyousaysewgifts.com/category_11/Trick-or-Treat-Pails.htm and check out all the designs. They are only $19 each and could last for years!!! She also has all kinds of cute fall personalized shirts you should check out!

Just leave me a comment and let me know which design is your favorite!! (How do you pick?)

Lisa Whelchel's Book "Friendship for Grown Ups"

I am SO excited to have FIVE copies of Lisa Whelchel's new book "Friendship for Grown-ups" to give away! I will draw winners on Friday night!

Finding and keeping friends as an adult can be a challenge and I think is a great guide book! Lisa is a wonderful Christian author and speaker! You will be blessed by this book I know!

And if you don't win - you can find it in most local bookstores as well as on-line!

Also - I am getting the chance to interview Lisa on Thursday morning so I'd love for you to come to my regular blog and leave me questions you would love to hear answered!

Just leave a comment on this post and let me know you'd like to win!

Winners of the Sheila Walsh Book

The winners for the Sheila Walsh book are:
45 Lindsey at thirtycanwait.blogspot.com
57 Katy at lifeasmrswright.blogspot.com
123 Catherine - no info - PLEASE contact me
146 - Lina at myheartmeetyours.blogspot.com
175 -Chantal at justmehopingformore.blogspot.com

Beautiful Things Happen When A Woman Trusts God

I've heard blogger comments are messed up today so if you can't leave a comment - come back later this week and do it!

Sheila Walsh is an amazing Christian author and speaker and she has recently written this book. This kind of sums it up for me:

Do you ever question God's ability to catch you when you fall?

Do shame, fear, and brokenness keep you from fully trusting God?

Do you secretly believe your dreams are unreachable?

You are not alone.

Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God is all about trust. How we fight it. How we learn to do it. How it transforms us.

Life is not safe. That reality slips over us as we grow. Our response to the Father in that reality allows us either to swing higher and higher with the trust of a child . . . or fearfully shrink back from the swing set altogether.

As we weigh that choice, God whispers: Trust me.

In a remarkably transparent account, author and speaker Shelia Walsh opens wide her lifelong battle with trust and the moment-by-moment choices she made to follow where God led.

Shelia has lived a life ruled by "hidden places" of insecurity and brokenness and knows the overwhelming beauty of a life wholly handed over to Christ. As you encounter her struggles and triumphs, you also meet ten of the Bible's transformed-Tabitha, David, Paul, and others-who teach us that in spite of overwhelming circumstances, just one trusting encounter with Christ sets beautiful things in motion.

It can resurrect dreams, instill purpose, and ignite hope.

Discover what beautiful things can happen when you trust God.

I'm giving away FIVE copies of this book and I will draw winners on Friday afternoon. Just leave me a comment and let me know you'd like to win.

For His Glory

There is an amazing family that lives in Oklahoma and has 13 children. One was 3 years old and died of cancer 3 years ago. They also have these twin sons who have a CD out that is SO great! It's instrumental music and it's all hymns. Which I love a lot of music but I'm a sucker for Hymns. There is nothing like the old hymns in the hymn book. These two guys are SO talented and their CD would make an amazing soundtrack or gift!

Check them out at : http://www.shekinahspringsstudio.com

And I'm giving away TWO copies! Just leave me a comment telling me your favorite hymn or if you don't have one - just let me know you'd like this CD! You will be blessed by it!!! I'll give it away on Wednesday night of next week!

Plan B

So I said at the beginning of the year that I would not do any more giveaways and I still plan to stick to that except where I have the chance to give something and introduce you to something that I think is inspirational or to help you grow in your walk with Jesus.
I'm excited to tell you about a book that is being released today. It's written by Pete Wilson who is pastor of a church in Nashville (that Angie Smith attends). I first heard about his book through Angie when he did a feature on them after they learned the news of Audrey. The book is Called Plan B. And I think there are SO MANY of you who could relate to this book (including myself). I could have used this book when I was single, when I was struggling with infertility, when Harper's birth didn't go like I thought it would. And I have no doubt there are many days ahead when life won't be picture perfect like I think it should be. Watch this video!

PlanB Promo from Cross Point Church on Vimeo.

In Plan B pastor and author Pete Wilson uses real life stories of disappointments and hurts along with the biblical stories of men and women like David, Joseph, and Ruth to help readers come to grips with the truth that they will face situations that in themselves they are completely unable to handle but that in them God is simply trying to get them to surrender their plans so that they can receive His. He identifies our common responses to difficulties and offers hope, helping us to

• Understand what God might be up to
• See how surrender helps us to receive God's plan
• Embrace the community of believers
• Reconcile a God of love with a life of tragedy and suffering
  

Wilson points readers to the cross as not just the starting line but the centerpiece of our story with God and shares that it is there we turn in our Plan B and find the undeniable relationship between crisis and our hope followed by true spiritual transformation. "God wants to live inside the questions" says Wilson and then reminds us that "the cross is proof that He does not always change the circumstance but that He always has a purpose in every circumstance. He will never let go of us. He will hold us and His cross will be an anchor for you.


It's in bookstores all across the country and on amazon.com. I'm giving away THREE copies HERE. Leave me a comment and I'll draw three winners on Thursday night.

I will Carry You Giveaway!

If you have read my blog for any length of time - you know that I just adore this girl above. Angie Smith and her husband Todd (he sings with the Christian group Selah) are an amazing couple with three girls, one on the way and one sweet baby who is with Jesus, Audrey.

I stumbled upon Angie's blog right after she started it and couldn't quit reading. I was drawn in by her story and prayed for her and for Audrey. I remember reading this post and bawling my eyes out. Angie has a gift for writing.

And she has written a book telling the story of Audrey. I'm not a reader and I read it in less than two days. I couldn't put it down. If you know anyone who has suffered the loss of a child - this would be an amazing book to give them. And Angie talks at the end about how to help those who lose a child. I was so thankful for that because I think at some point in our lives we will probably all know someone, unfortunately, who will go through this and I'm saving her book as a reference.

"I Will Carry You" comes out tomorrow nation wide and you can find it in Barnes and Noble, Books a Million , and Lifeway. I really encourage you to buy a copy. You will love it!

And I'm also giving away THREE COPIES!! All you need to do is leave me a comment and let me know you'd like to win!