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August 27, 2015

Prayer Packages

If you’re friends with me, you know that I love sending cards or little gifts in the mail. Going to the Post Office is a favorite pastime of mine. You might agree with me that receiving fun mail is like Christmas morning! We want to share with you a cool company called Prayer Packages.

Prayer Packages is a great way to send love to family or friends. Their mission is to “deliver keepsake gifts and services that encourage and celebrate family and friends.” You can choose to send a box to someone who is going back to school, a sympathy box for person who has had a loss, a get well box to someone dear to your heart, a just because box (this would be a box I would send), or a celebration box.

Something very special about Prayer Packages is that when you purchase a box, they give 10% of the proceeds to a giving partner. So as you bless your friends and family, you bless an amazing charity.

When we received our box, we were blown away with what the box looked like. It was beautiful!

Imagine the look on your friends face as they saw this on their front porch!

When you open the box, you’ll find a beautiful card with a personalized message and two beautifully wrapped gifts. Yes, we used beautiful twice in a sentence. That’s just how we feel about the whole box in general – it’s beautiful.

One of the wrapped gifts was a prayer tin. In it there were with prayer cards with a marker. There was also a little ceramic dish. The other wrapped gift was put in a wooden box. The box was something that I’ve never seen before in my life. A prayer token and wristband were put into the box.

The whole experience of the Prayer Package is really neat. Right when it’s delivered, you know that it’s a very special package. There was a lot of thought and intention when it came to putting the box together. In my family, presentation of the gift is important. I felt that way with this.

The box we received was the “Prayer Box” package (link here —- Prayer Box). Check out their site at http://myprayerpackages.com to see the types of boxes you could send. They have a Starbucks package and SpaFinder package! We have been given a coupon for our readers to use – FREE10. Boxes range from $29.99 to $89.99.

Bless your friends with a Prayer Package. They will feel extremely loved by you.

August 24, 2015

A prayer for The Captivating Woman

There is so much on my heart and the words on my mind are all jumbled, but what I want to say first is:

Lord, let this website be used for Your glory. May my words and the words of The Captivating Woman team be pleasing to Your ear and may we increase the Kingdom as well as strengthen other sisters in Christ. May our mind not focus on numbers but on You and glorifying You with our gifts. Lord, I pray that this passion in our hearts to celebrate women and our Creator will become the passion for many others. Lord, we thank for being women. We thank for giving us the gift of femininity. We thank You for the talent You have placed on our lives and how that talent was created with purpose. Lord, may we understand that our lives have purpose through Your will. May we seek You daily and surrender our hearts to You. May we learn to walk confidently in You so that we may shine. Help us to reflect Your image to others. May we love others well and have more grace. Lord, impress on our hearts that we cannot do everything – we are not perfect women. God, we thank You that we are not perfect and do not have it all together. Because of that truth, it means we have to cling to You daily. Thank You Lord for life, abundant life. May Your glory shine through The Captivating Woman.

We are so thankful you are here. We hope that our site will bless and encourage you. Learn more about our site by checking our “About” page as well as learn about the team behind The Captivating Woman.

August 19, 2015

Life at 27

It’s safe to say, I’m not where I thought I would be at 27. When I graduated high school over 10 years ago, I had hopes and dreams of becoming a teacher or a writer and changing the world. None of which have panned out, none of which involved Jesus.

After finding Jesus and beginning a relationship with Him towards the end of my freshman year of college, my hopes and dreams began to shift focus. I still wanted to be a writer, but wanted to give a voice to people who had none. I was going to be a journalist and actually care for the people I was writing about. This dream looks great, sounds great, and was all about other people. The problem wasn’t that the dream was bad, the problem was that it was still MINE.

I’ve learned in these nine years of serving Jesus that good things, outside the will of God, are no longer good things. Honestly, I’m still learning this everyday.

It is in God’s Will that we find fullness of joy.

It is in His plans that we find peace.

It is in His timing that we succeed.

Not for the glory of ourselves, but for His Name.

Living in a culture where “do what you want” is the norm, it’s hard to step up and do what God is calling you to. Like, really hard. Like, maybe the hardest thing you will ever do. Sorry, no sugar-coating here. It’s going to be challenging. It’s going to take you to places you might never have thought you would go. The only rest in the chaos is the knowledge of Matthew 28:20.

“…and behold I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

So, life at 27. It may look a little different than I thought it would, but it’s ok. God is with me. Always.

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