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Tethering Grace & Togetherness

Because I Love Ya! (Book Giveaway)

August 9, 2013 by HappyGoStuckey 22 Comments

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!

We have had quite an eventful week with our little Big girl starting Pre-K and all. Since we will be home for several weekends in a row after traveling so much, we are going to try to tackle a few DIY projects around our home this weekend. We’ve recently realized that we have a LOT of projects in mind and we just need to GET WITH IT, ALREADY!! (I promise to take pictures and share our progress, unless of course we spend the whole weekend in our pj’s watching Downton Abbey re-runs, which is also a possibility.)

But because it’s Friday, (YAY!) I have a fun little book giveaway for you! These are two books I LOVE and if you win the giveaway you can choose the one you would like!  The first, What Women Fear by Angie Smith is an amazing work on Faith and how it can transform even the most fearful woman. She weaves “her own experiences with those of men and women throughout Scripture to help us start dealing more effectively with these true, human emotions.” (Book cover.) This book meant a lot to me and I would love for you to be encouraged by it as well.

The second title, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe by Sarah Mae & Sally Clarkson. I’m currently reading this one and though I’m not yet finished, I am devouring every last word. It’s soothing my soul and encouraging me to keep. going. every. day.  I’m attending a conference in October where Sarah Mae will be one of the main speakers, and OH! Am I Excited or WHAT?!!!

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So, in order to enter to win one of these titles, just leave a comment on this post with the one which you would choose! If you own them both already, then pick which one you would like to give to someone else! Also, earn a second entry by becoming a follower of HappyGoStuckey.com! Whatever way you choose, Blog Lovin’, WP Reader, or there is even an email option on the right sidebar where you can have the posts emailed to you. If you are a follower or you become a follower, just leave a second comment to state that. 

Giveaway Ends Next Thursday Night, August 15. Winner will be announced on Friday, August 16th. 

Dear Other Mothers
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Comments

  1. Kasey says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    I would love either of these!

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  2. Cloggsy says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    Ooh, What Women Fear sounds good. I love that your blog comes to my mailbox each time you post now….how super is that? Keep up the good work chick!

    Reply
  3. Kasey says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    And, I became an email follower! Love your blog, friend!

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  4. Megan Luttrull says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    Both books sound interesting. I think I will check them out! Love your blog!

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  5. Rebecca says

    August 9, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    I would love to read desperate!

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  6. Jessica says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    I wouldn’t mind either but first choice would be “Desperate…” Love your blog!!!

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  7. Janis says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    “What Women Fear”

    Both sound fantastic! Love your blog 🙂 always so real and encouraging! Thank you!

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  8. Jessica says

    August 9, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    And for my second entry, I am now an *official* follower of happygostuckey…because before I was just a stalker.;)

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  9. Nikki says

    August 9, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    That’s a tough one! They both sound fantastic. I think I would like to read What Women Fear first. I have long been away from my church (my father stopped taking me when I was a child after my mother passed away) but I have always been faithful. I would like to venture more into my faith and this book sounds like a good place to start. I’m glad I stumbled across your blog today (my cousin shared one of your posts on Facebook)!

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  10. Christi says

    August 9, 2013 at 11:31 pm

    Officially a follower 🙂 And, I would love either of these books! But since we’re about to take on the craziness of a second child, maybe Desperate would be the most appropriate for me right now! We miss you!

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  11. Alexis says

    August 9, 2013 at 11:39 pm

    Desperate! Our MOPs group is going to read this one this year! I’ve ordered my copy already, but I would love to have one to give away!

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  12. Alexis says

    August 9, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    And now I follow your blog (already did, though, but email made it official)!!!

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  13. Nikki says

    August 10, 2013 at 12:54 am

    I also became a “follower” of your blog today 🙂

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  14. Kelly S says

    August 10, 2013 at 1:49 am

    I am official now too! 🙂

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  15. Cloggsy says

    August 10, 2013 at 3:58 am

    P.S, just realized that angie smith is the woman that made me tear up on the life way devotional cd I have that I listen to in the car. She was talking about going into the deep water with Jesus and not just standing on the sandy beach. After our Plunge mops theme last year, I just got all emotional. Big fan of Angie’s now!!

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    • happygostuckey says

      August 11, 2013 at 1:30 am

      I know, Chloe! Angie Smith is amazing!

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  16. Elaine P says

    August 12, 2013 at 1:32 am

    Either, but I could probably use “Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe” right now!

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  17. Jade McEwen says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:53 pm

    They both sound wonderful!

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  18. alymoody says

    August 12, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    DESPERATE!! Yes that would be perfect for me right about now! 🙂 Thanks for doing this!!

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  19. Joanna Tillman says

    August 15, 2013 at 7:46 pm

    Desperate is amazing! I own an e copy but would love to have hard copy to share with my sis in law!

    Reply

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Baking sourdough, watching it bubble and rise and fill our BlueHouse with the scent of a good, long, posture of patience— I absolutely need a second serving of this.
While we wait, and whatever it is that we wait for— may the space between be made sweeter by the knowledge that we never wait alone.
You can’t tell by their joy, but the day I snapp You can’t tell by their joy, but the day I snapped this photo was somewhat of a regular day.

What looks like a winter beach vacation was actually the tail-end of a masked lunch stop in the middle of a pandemic road trip.

This sparkling moment of sun-splashed fun was sandwiched between brutal conversations about regular life, especially the hard parts.

And this is how it is. 
These bits of life that we never see coming, they are enveloped between all that makes us tired, weary, sighing pilgrims in a world that was never really meant to be hospitable in the first place.

This photo reminds me to look again at our year, our season, our circumstances.

To look a second and third time.
To keep looking as long as it takes to see that the joy of our right now isn’t gone, it just might be hiding in the shadow of all that’s hard.

Brokenness is never vague. And we don’t have to search very long to see it both within ourselves and around us.
Sometimes the weight of that fact is crushing.
And then, sometimes it reminds us even more clearly of the light shining in darkness.

Joy is an act of defiance against despair and I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling rather defiant at the moment.✨✨✨✨

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Endurance can feel like standing still. Especially Endurance can feel like standing still. Especially if what we’re called to be about is the same as yesterday and last month. 
It’s difficult to meet each day with the same fervor and joy for what we are called to do, especially when at present, the progress seems small and immeasurable. 
But even then, perhaps especially so — our faithfulness matters.

When we cannot yet see the other side, the light at the end of this particularly long tunnel, we begin again.

Not because we will always wake with fresh energies and bright, sparkling hope for what comes next, friend. But because the God of Endurance (Romans 15:5) dwells within us.

“It is the grace of endurance granted to you by the God of endurance that provides you with everything you need to continue to be what he calls you to be and do what he calls you to do between this moment and the moment when you cross over to the other side. When difficulty exposes the weakness of your resolve and the limits of your strength, you do not have to panic, because He will endure even in this moments when you don’t feel able to do so yourself.” — Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies

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We have learned... The inestimable value of a goo We have learned...

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To hold plans with the loosest hands possible.

To rejoice in things found. Time. Margin. ...and enough toilet paper to share with a neighbor.

To give grace and accept it for ourselves.

The hilarious joy of a group text complete with “have you seen this meme yet?” 

To pivot. And then pivot again.

To find more joy in candlelight closer to home, instead of the bright lights of traveled cities.

To perfect our pizza dough recipe and truly learn to prefer it over dinner out.

To work with yeast and flour again and again— until the message of waiting for something really good dusted our apron fronts and kitchen floors.

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In 525,600 minutes and in all the things, found and lost and found again— there is far and away more to be grateful for.

And we choose joy.

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Not rushing too quickly into a new year over here. Not rushing too quickly into a new year over here. Though the one in our rear view window is one we wouldn’t choose to repeat, still it was one full of God’s nearness.

One day I’ll write it all down.
But for now I’ll just say,
we were not alone. 🕯
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