Contagious Joy Blog

This Christmas season finds me at a new phase of my life….a more relaxed phase.  I’m discovering that the more I let go of earthly things, the less stress I have in my life.  As I write this, I am at the end of a wonderful day I spent with my husband having a garage…

The word “Celebrate” always brings up images and memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas for me. No other time of the year gets the anticipation and preparation that these holidays get. What is interesting to me is that the reason I spend so much time anticipating and preparing for these holidays is to bring back the…

Merry Christmas!  I love to celebrate the ultimate gift!  I know many are in the middle of celebrating the Christmas season in ministry!  As if it couldn’t get any busier, there is craziness of additional church activities in addition to establishing and keeping your own family traditions.  This is a huge tight rope for you…

We have many Bibles and Bible studies to giveaway in the month of December. We’ve changed it up.  During this season many of you are too busy to do a lot of posting so if you open the newsletter and click on a link you will be entered to win a new Women’s Study Bible…

It’s a season of thanksgiving and many posted on Facebook what they’re thankful for each day.  I haven’t had the time to sit down and do that every day, but I am pondering this… Does this conscious attempt to be thankful contribute to the general sense of joy we feel through the holidays?  I believe…

I am about to do some confessing to you,Sisters in  Christ. Here it is… I like to be in control. Now, in and of it self, that might not be so bad. The sin comes when I hinder others from doing what they are supposed to do when I take it upon myself to do…

She was born at the end of the depression – at the very end – 1939 to be exact.  Her family farmed land in Texas.  They were dirt poor – meaning that quite literally they had no cash money and were barely able to feed the family from the dirt that they called a farm.  …