Original watercolor designs create beautiful notecards you can send as inspirational messages and keepsakes of faith. The cards – printed on heavy, uncoated stock – are suitable for framing or gifts. Appropriate for many occasions, these colorful, faith-filled cards are blank inside so you can write a personal message. These printed cards are created from…
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Ideas on celebrating faith in everyday moments, ways to incorporate faith into family time, and shares from the good, true, and beautiful.
A Prayer Notebook, Truly I Tell You
Reposting the Prayer Notebook post! We recently reprinted for 2022. Note: With this version, you can expect the same format as our first print of the prayer notebook, but with updated artwork, new cover, and an added pocket in the back. Prayer notebooks are undated, so you don’t have to wait until January to begin…
Tips on writing a prayer journal
Did Lent sneak up on you too? If you’re looking for a new way to make this Lent meaningful, maybe writing a prayer journal is the perfect solution. And if journaling becomes a habit? That’s awesome! Sometimes we struggle to slow our thoughts down and put pen to paper. Our biggest learning to share? Try…
Imagination in Prayer – How to get started
I once went to a Lenten workshop where Cheryl Fournier, Ph.D. taught a faith formation course on how to use your imagination to pray. Imaginative prayer…a concept I found interesting and inspiring. We are honored to bring you the following article on using imagination in prayer, written by Dr. Fournier! — — — We meet…
Amazing Faith: Where a Prayer Journal Leads
A chance conversation in January 2020 with a friend was only a brief encounter, however, she planted a thought that left me curiously inspired. My friend was retiring from a full-time job at a financial firm because she felt her next task was too important to split time. “Oh, what’s that?” I asked, assuming she…
Kid-Friendly Lenten Activities: Quiet time with the saints
Finding kid-friendly Lenten activities is a challenge for me. During their toddler years, we didn’t push Lenten concepts with our children. Honestly, it never occurred to me to add much beyond the family CRS Rice Bowl offerings, Stations of the Cross, and regular Mass. This year, I stumbled upon a great activity we plan to…
Amazing Brenda: Warms Your Heart
The doorbell rings. On the step stands Brenda, holding out frosted cinnamon rolls with the sweet aroma of home-baked bread wafting toward you. They’re gigantic – and still warm! Mmmmm! A woman of amazing generosity Like a special angel, Brenda often appears to someone who is in need with just what brightens a day. Her…
Advent Traditions: Family Activities for Advent
If the Christmas season stresses you out and sounds expensive, consider this: can you start a family tradition? Advent is our favorite time of year – a time filled with hope, love, prayer, and family togetherness. Below you’ll find some of our favorite Advent traditions – family activities for Advent we have on our list…
Amazing Peggy Whitson: Iowa Farm Girl Is Record-Breaking Astronaut
If ever one’s career inspires young Iowans to root…and bloom…it would be astronaut Peggy Whitson. But nine-year-old Whitson didn’t know what her future held as she watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon in 1969 and kindled her space aspirations. “The future holds unlimited possibilities for everyone,” Dr. Whitson recently told a…
Amazing Grace: Lisa Schmidt inspires, quenches others’ thirst with The Well
God is still writing the plan for your life… did you just take His pen? Figuratively, many of us do just that. We can’t help our impatience, wanting to be in charge of our own future. We are so inspired by Lisa Schmidt, founder of The Well, who has returned the pen to God and…