Check Out My New Blog!

I hope you're all having a wonderful summer so far! I wanted to let you know why things have been a little quiet on Grace to Abide for a while. I've been busy starting up a new blog, and I'd love for you to go and check it out. It's called Living Green Faith and you can find it at www.livinggreenfaith.com.

It's a magazine-style blog with four main sections: 

1) Environment Care, where I discuss ideas on why we, as Christians, should be looking after the environment and how we might take small steps to do that.

2) Celebrating Creation, which is as it sounds: a chance to marvel at the wonders in our beautiful world, and an encouragement to take time out of our busy lives to appreciate them and find God's fingerprints in the natural world.

3) Mind, Body and Spirit, where I look at ideas on how to take care of ourselves, as a valuable part of God's creation, so that we can fully be the people that God has created us to be.

4) Food Matters, which is a place for recipes for healthy eating, ideas on how to make wise decisions when it comes to our meals, and discussions on how our eating habits can affect not just ourselves but our world around us.

When you subscribe to the blog you'll receive a free e-book, and you can also connect with Living Green Faith through facebook, twitter and pinterest.

I'm really excited about my new blog, but I'm not quite ready to let Grace to Abide go yet, so I plan to continue posting here from time to time too, particularly about issues to do with homeschooling.

Oh, and if you hurry over to Living Green Faith now, it's not too late to download my free printable bookmark, which will help you meditate through a book of the Bible during the month of August!

Hope to see you there!

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Blog at Home Mom - Book Review

When Christin Slade asked if anyone would like a free copy of her new ebook Blog at Home Mom: Balancing Blogging and Motherhoodin return for reviewing it on their blog, I jumped at the chance. Not only because it was a subject that really interested me, but also because I know Christin a little already from her blog Joyful Mothering, and I love her writing. I know that she has lots of experience and wisdom to offer.

Her new ebook didn't disappoint. She writes in her introduction: "Pursuing our passions doesn’t mean you sacrifice less as a wife or mother, it simply means you focus more on all the different facets."

In the ensuing chapters she covers topics such as setting goals and having a plan, organising your days, prioritising, and how to avoid sloppy days. And these aren't just ways to organise your writing and blogging. In each chapter Christin discusses how to set goals for your blog and for your children; how to organise your blogging schedule and how to organise your children's time. Throughout the book she weaves a careful balance between our responsibilities to our families and our homes and our desire to spend time on our computers developing our calling and gifting as writers. The final two chapters focus on caring for your marriage and caring for your spiritual walk, which are so important if we want to live a happy, balanced, intentional life.

Christin is well-connected in the blogging world, and I love that each chapter ends with some words of wisdom and insight from fellow bloggers on each topic.

If you're a Blog at Home Mom then I encourage you to buy this book, and as a bonus, all the profits from sales of the book go towards the Slade's Adoption Fund, as they try to raise $2500 to bring their two daughters home from Ghana.

Abide in Him!

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