Overcoming the Post-Holiday Blues

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills As we bid farewell to the holiday season, we treasure cherished memories, sweet experiences, laughter, an unexpected gift, and some moments best forgotten. Many of us feel a sense of melancholy, the anticipation of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day are replaced by the ho-hum of the months ahead. The post-holiday blues are depressing but take …

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills In this season of celebration, may love, joy, peace, and hope wrap you in a warm embrace. Praying you see the light of God in unexpected places and hear His whispers of wisdom guiding your every step. With anticipation in our hearts for the new year, trust in the God who fills our lives with purpose. …

God Still Does Impossible Things

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest post by: Kristen Hogrefe Parnell @Kristen Hogrefe Parnell One of my favorite Bible verses as a teenager that remains close to my heart as a thirty-something is Luke 1:37. “For with God nothing will be impossible” (NKJV). Read through the stories of the Old and New Testament, and you can’t help but see impossible situations become possible. …

Dear Friend, Christmas wasn’t Created for Stress

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills DiAnn Mills Friend, please don’t open the unwanted Christmas gift of stress. The black paper and black bow with an attaching-grabbing tag, Open Me First will spoil your celebration. You’ll recognize the items inside: Friend, cut short any family or friend events. You have too much work to do. Friend, stress is your friend. If you …

National Day of Giving

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is National Day of Giving for many charities in the USA and the world. Perhaps you refer to the day as Giving Hope Day, Celebrate Generosity Day, or Day of Giving. In the USA, we’ve just celebrated a feast of thankfulness for God’s blessings. We pray for God to smile on us …

Unplug This Thanksgiving

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Thanksgiving is a time to enjoy family and friends, to put people first, and celebrate the blessings God has given us. The best advice I can give is to unplug—That means turning off the busyness of the outside world by silencing our phones and other electronic devices. Determine to participate in old-fashioned, face-to-face conversation. I hear …

Does Our Writing Encourage Others?

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills We writers thrive on our projects entering a theater of encouragement, an area in which readers react and respond to what we’ve written. And we hope positively. In the true sense of the word, a theater uses a stage to present a real or fictionalized event to those who crave an emotional experience. Thus, our characters …

Room to Breathe

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post by Linda Lyle Do you ever find yourself going down the anxiety rabbit hole? Like many businesses, writing is a feast or famine. I am either waiting to hear back from editors, agents, and publishers, or I am overwhelmed by deadlines and details. Either way I feel anxious as I wonder how it will all …

Autumn Quotes to Refresh Our Hearts

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Special quotes use emotion and creativity to express how we feel. A twist of a phrase or a unique word speaks a fresh meaning into our lives and shape us to become better people with optimism and joy. The following quotes about autumn, harvest, and Thanksgiving fill me with fresh enthusiasm for the fall season. “I …

Has Your Daily Routine Become a Substitute for Jesus?

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Our lives can easily slip into a routine that substitutes Jesus-driven devotion for performance-driven actions. We don’t intend for worldly concerns to take our Lord’s place. Priorities hammer our schedules, and we slip into what others expect of us. We go through our quiet times and church activities as before, but our mindset changes. The transition …