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Steady To Slow And Savor Our King

by Kirstin Ricketts | Dec 18, 2019 | Faith Matters, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

My sister came over to pick up gingerbread houses. As we discussed if we had enough candy for the kids to decorate and why we didn’t buy the preassembled village, I watched my ten-year-old niece’s fingers glide over the figures in the manger scene piece by...

If You Set An Empty Plate This Year

by Kirstin Ricketts | Dec 13, 2019 | All The Things, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

If you set an empty plate this year, God sees you in your pain and your grief. He sees you going to all of the celebrations without the person you love and trying to keep it together, trying to maintain normal for your people. He sees the hole in your heart that you...

The Best Advent Book

by Kirstin Ricketts | Dec 4, 2019 | Faith Matters, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

What is the best advent book to read with your kids this Christmas season? My mother used to whisper rather than yell and that’s when my sisters and I knew it was about to get real. Let me whisper to you, “You will be the best Advent book your kids could ever read.” ...

Place Yourself

by Kirstin Ricketts | Nov 27, 2019 | Faith Matters, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

Okay, here’s the deal. You have everything you need to make it through tomorrow, but it’s not pacing yourself that is going to make the difference, it’s placing yourself…placing yourself in the hands of your God, asking Him to carry you. Close your eyes and...

Be Your Best Self, Have A Better Holiday

by Kirstin Ricketts | Nov 18, 2019 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog

The deer on our acreage are getting lazy. Earlier in the fall, when my three-year-old son would yell from the windows, they would look and scatter, jumping the fences and running into the forest. Now, as I ride the tractor towards them, they look up at me and go back...

Be Kind To Yourself

by Kirstin Ricketts | Nov 15, 2019 | All The Things, Home Sweet Home, The Blog

Do you have that spot where you can breathe? In the hurried, busy, loud and distracting pace of our days, let’s consider a place where we can reconnect, breathe, and get some stillness. If we let our hearts get still, I believe we will be able to hear our God better....