A Guest Post This is the story of one woman responding to a need she saw. Thinking she didn’t have a lot to give, she did what she could with what she had and God did the rest. I am so inspired by her example, by her story. The shelter she is speaking of has continue reading »
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Year Without Shopping – It’s Over . . . or is it???
One month post-shopping fast and I have been reflecting on what I learned, how I’ve changed and what I want to do differently in the future. I made my first purchase just a few days ago. Initially I thought on January 1st I would be rushing out to buy something, anything after all that time continue reading »
Year Without Shopping December – Merry Christmas!!
I am in the last month of my shopping fast! I can hardly believe it. For the most part it seems to have gone by fast, but there have been times when it feels like it has been an eternity since I could walk into a store and just buy something I wanted. Some of continue reading »
Year Without Shopping – November
I am in the 11th month of my shopping fast. It has been such a positive experience for me. That’s not to say there haven’t been things I’ve missed buying! There certainly have been, and I have chronicled those things here in this this blog. Socks, right now I am wishing for new socks! continue reading »
Year Without Shopping October
Month #10 of my shopping fast! Fall is my favorite season. The smells, the colors of the trees. The way it’s cool in the morning and evening but warm during the day. I love the foods that emerge this time of year too – soups and stews, hot chocolate and although I am no fan continue reading »
Year Without Shopping September
I am now in the ninth month of my buy-nothing adventure. Some things feel easier, some harder. For the most part I have gotten used to not buying things and so in that sense I think I have begun to be reconditioned away from a buy-first approach to my life. On the other hand, there continue reading »
Year Without Shopping August
I am in month 8 of this no new stuff, no shopping, fasting of things thing. In some ways it has been far easier than I thought it would be. I have never been a real shopper so I have not missed it for its own sake. I have a ton more stuff than I continue reading »
i am who you say i am
The other day this moving worship song came on in the car. The words spoke powerfully to me: Who am I that the highest King Would welcome me? I was lost but He brought me in Oh His love for me Oh His love for me Who the Son sets free Oh is free indeed continue reading »
Year Without Shopping July
I have passed the halfway point in my yearlong shopping fast. My family has completed theirs (they signed on to join me for the 1st six months). So as we reached the end of their fast (for which they had a countdown) I asked my girls, who are 8 and 12 respectively, what they thought continue reading »
Year Without Shopping June Update
On Waste and wasting: Today is trash day on my street. I look at the heaps of waste we all push to the edge of our yards for the trucks to haul away next to blue boxes piled high with recycling and I think about how very much we throw away. How much I have continue reading »