Chantel 2 Minute Read I believe that gratitude can change your life. When I was ten years old, I picked up a little notebook and began a habit that has affected my life ever since. I called it my joy journal. In it I chronicled the bits and pieces of my ordinary days that made me smile, and reminded…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read When we spend more time search for assurance than we do acting out of belief, we are chasing God. –Angie Smith in Chasing God If pinning organizational ideas on Pinterest was all that is required, my house would be perfectly organized. If outlining a weekly to-do list that included dusting and cleaning the bathroom was…
Callie Mitchell 6 Minute Read I am in Carthage, at the turn of the third century AD, and she has just become beautiful. At least, she has just discovered that she is beautiful. As her ornatrix adorns her with braids and jewels, I learn that she is Vibia Perpetua, the daughter of a Roman Senator, a woman of great wealth,…
Danielle Carey 17 Minute Read Some things get to be so much a part of one’s identity that it is impossible to trace the thread of memory back to the beginning, back to the initial taste of an entirely new experience. I wish I could remember when books first entered my world, but I cannot. Like the seemingly infinite existence…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I don’t know anyone who would say that their life has been a bed of roses. There are good times and there are hard times and they come to each of us. As bibliophiles, we go to books in the hard times just as we do in the happy times. Several members of our writing…
Jenni Marie 3 Minute Read Reading had become a chore. As odd as it sounds, that’s what happened. I had spent the majority of my childhood identifying “reading” as my foremost hobby, I had voraciously devoured multiple books a week, and had routinely won the local library’s summer reading program. Somewhere along the way, my default leisure activity switched to…
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read E-readers will never take the place of real books in my heart. A new book (preferably a very old “new” book) sends little tingles of excitement through me in a way that a Kindle cover just can’t. But in this season of life, I’m grateful for another, generally more accessible way to read. And once…
Kindred Grace Team 5 Minute Read Bittersweet actually sat in a stack of books on my bedroom floor for almost a year before I dug out the decadent looking blue cover. But once I opened its pages, I couldn’t put it down.
Guest Author 5 Minute Read I love books. When I start reading I become so absorbed that I may not even hear you calling my name.
It used to be a lot worse. I was a real book addict! I read so much I almost lived in my books and stories.
Katie 3 Minute Read I couldn’t believe my eyes! I gasped aloud at the incredulity of it. Someone was backing into my car — as I stood there and watched! Completely oblivious to the fact that I was watching, the man didn’t even get out of his car to check the damage. My blood pressure soared – what was he…
Chantel 3 Minute Read Do you love to read? What are some of the reasons you love books? This year, some of us here on Kindred Grace got together and shared a few reasons why we love books–and why we’re excited that March is finally here! (Click here to view the video if you can’t see the embedded version.) I…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read When I turn the last page of a good book, it’s always with the hope that I won’t forget the experience, that I’ll be able to keep living the pages long after I’ve closed the cover. This feeling is especially true with Tsh Oxenreider’s Notes from a Blue Bike. As we gear up for the busy…
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