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DIY Summertime Iced Coffee!
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DIY Summertime Iced Coffee!

Each Friday our #LoveYourLifeFriday team shares fabulous DIY projects, recipes, money-saving strategies, decorating ideas, holiday activities and even spiritual growth tools that will help you to live your priorities and love your life. My favorite summertime drink is iced coffee….

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Summertime Grilling Shortcuts for #LoveYourLifeFriday
Love Your Life Friday

Summertime Grilling Shortcuts for #LoveYourLifeFriday

Got a hungry family and an outdoor grill? The combo can be a set up for a delicious dinner with an added bonus—not heating up the already toasty house! Make summertime (or anytime) grilling easier with these few simple shortcuts below….

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Bedroom Bookshelf Makeover with Dollar Store Finds for #LoveYourLifeFriday
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Bedroom Bookshelf Makeover with Dollar Store Finds for #LoveYourLifeFriday

One thing I’m always looking to do is organize my kids’ bedrooms on a budget. We have six kids and my four boys share a room so organization and minimalization are key for me. My sister-in-law always makes over dollar…

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Clean Eating Taco Salad with a Baked Taco Bowl Shell for #LoveYourLifeFriday
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Clean Eating Taco Salad with a Baked Taco Bowl Shell for #LoveYourLifeFriday

This Clean Eating Taco Salad with a Baked Taco Bowl Shell is the perfect go-to quick and easy lunch or dinner! With just a few simple ingredients and about 10 minutes, you can have a delicious salad with a beautiful…

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Tomato and Basil Bruschetta (Summer Side Dish) for #LoveYourLifeFriday
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Tomato and Basil Bruschetta (Summer Side Dish) for #LoveYourLifeFriday

For most of us, summer closes its doors soon and fall will be ushered in shortly. I am surrounded by fall decor when at the craft store. My local coffee shop already promoted dates when pumpkin-flavored drinks make an appearance!…

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Heavenly Salted Caramel Sauce for #LoveYourLifeFriday
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Heavenly Salted Caramel Sauce for #LoveYourLifeFriday

One of life’s simplest pleasures is salted caramel. In my humble opinion, there is not much in this world that salted caramel cannot make better. For a season, I was obsessed with making homemade ice cream every chance I could…

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✨Welcome to those of you who have joined us here ✨Welcome to those of you who have joined us here after reading my @Proverbs31org devotion entitled You Don’t Have to Crush It. As promised in the devotion, here is a…

🎉🎉GIVEAWAY!!🎉🎉

3️⃣ people will each win a copy of my book 📖Make Their Day 🌸 along with $15 (through Cash App, Paypal, or Venmo) to take someone out for a cup of coffee or tea.☕️💕

As I said in my devotion, rather than trying to crush it— thinking our worth is in how much we accomplish at work or at home—let’s place our focus instead on looking for those who are crushed in spirit, and do something to cheer, support, or encourage them with the faithful love of Jesus.

➡️ TO ENTER TO WIN: Like this post and tag a friend who you would like to share coffee or tea with. ☕️ OR… you can share your favorite way to show kindness to others or tag a friend who is great at being thoughtful. 👩🏻👩🏾‍🦱👱🏻‍♀️🧑🏽👩🏼‍🦰

✨For a bonus entry, share this post to your story.✨

**Winners will be chosen on Friday, May 20, 2022**

(This giveaway is in no way endorsed or sponsored by Instagram. US and Canadian addresses only, please.)
Happy birthday to our Mackenzie Leith Ehman 🎂💕🎉 (aka Kenna, Half-pint, Kenna-Bob, Kenzie-doodle, and Kenz)

It’s been a few decades since your scary and shaky entrance into the world. 😬I hope your celebration today is even better than the birthday party you insisted on having when you turned six, which is pictured. You wanted an angel party and on the menu you asked for heavenly hash, both angel food AND devil’s food cake and Grandma Margaret’s deviled eggs. And of course, we all pitched in and made it happen. 🎂

And now, you are the “make it happen” one. Always cheering others on. Always making opportunities for people. Building a business and your sweet family. (See, I told you that best friend of yours would make an excellent husband, just like your dad!) 

You are fierce. Kind. Innovative. Opinionated. Industrious. Generous. And strongly stubborn. And I wouldn’t change a thing about you. 💕

Oh, and for fun I tucked in a picture of you with your great grandma Lucille Leith Rankin Ehman, after whom you were named and from whose family line I suspect you may have gotten a lot of your spunk from. (Related to Jeanette Rankin, first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was a Republican from Montana who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916.) Great grandma Ehman was almost 86 when you were born and almost 96 when she took her last breath. May you live even longer.🌸

Since we can’t be there, I’ll have Naomi and Ethan give you hugs and kisses from us. 💕 Here’s hoping today is as fabulous as you are. 😉
Am I seeking unity or my own way? . . *This quote Am I seeking unity or my own way?
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*This quote is taken from my Bible Study What Matters Most.  check it out by tapping the link in my Instagram bio ➡️ @karenehman ⬅️ and scrolling until you see the book’s cover.
Listen and love anyway. . . *This quote is taken f Listen and love anyway.
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*This quote is taken from my book Listen, Love, Repeat. If want more ideas on how to show love to others, check it out by tapping the link in my Instagram bio ➡️ @karenehman ⬅️ and scrolling until you see the book’s cover.

#ListenLoveRepeat #ListenLoveRepeatBook
Join me and my friend @annswindell this Thursday L Join me and my friend @annswindell this Thursday LIVE at 11:30 am ET here on Instagram! We will be discussing her new book A Path to Peace: Experiencing God's Comfort When You Are Overwhelmed. Join us for a great discussion and a giveaway!
Trust God to provide the calm that you need. . . * Trust God to provide the calm that you need.
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*This quote is taken from my new devotional with @ruthschwenk Trusting God in All the Things. Check it out by tapping the link in my Instagram bio ➡️ @karenehman ⬅️ and scrolling until you see the book’s cover.

#TrustingGodinAlltheThings
Visited my mother’s grave today to place some da Visited my mother’s grave today to place some daisies on it, one of her favorite flowers. 🌼 It appears some squirrels have been having a picnic on her bench. They left behind some cracked-open walnut shells with all the nut meats missing. My mom loved to feed the squirrels so I’m sure it would have made her smile. 🐿🐾
This was one of the last pictures I snapped when m This was one of the last pictures I snapped when my mother was alive. I took it one afternoon as we finished up lunch at a local diner. 

My mom loved coffee. And she especially loved it when served in a brown stoneware vintage mug, just like the one in this picture. It was the same type of mug we had in our house growing up. The same kind my father had in his restaurant when I was in high school and college.

I inherited one mug that had been my father‘s when he passed away. My mom liked to use it when she came to my house because she loved the feel of it in her hand. Then, when she passed away, I inherited one she still had in her cupboard, so now I have a matching pair. 

Grief is an uninvited guest who shows up whenever they want. The days I think I will grieve the most— like Mother’s Day, or my mom’s birthday— I usually don’t. Instead, it’s those random weekday afternoons when I go to grab a mug from the mismatched collection in my cupboard, and out comes one of those brown diner mugs. It is then that the grief slaps my soul, reminding me I can’t share a cup of coffee with her ever again.

This weekend is Mother’s Day. There will be brunches and homemade cards from children; backyard cookouts where moms will open bottles of perfume or pedicure certificates. But for others, your heart will be split open with grief. 

Perhaps it is because you are missing your own mother. Or maybe it’s because you desperately want to be a mother but aren’t. For others it will be because you have lost a child or spouse.

Whatever the case, if Mother’s Day is hard for you this year, will you leave a comment so I can whisper a prayer for you? And be encouraged with this thought: God sees you. He loves you. Jesus understands suffering and grief. Let grief do the work of making you more compassionate toward others; more grateful for your blessings. Suffering stings, but it can also help us grow.

“…we glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” 
Romans 5:3-5
Trust God to provide all that you need. . . *This Trust God to provide all that you need.
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*This quote is taken from my new devotional with @ruthschwenk Trusting God in All the Things. Check it out by tapping the link in my Instagram bio ➡️ @karenehman ⬅️ and scrolling until you see the book’s cover.

#TrustingGodinAlltheThings
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