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Friday Favorite: Bedtime Prayers

Posted on June 28, 2013June 28, 2013 by Katie Ganshert

If you’re friends with me on Facebook, then you know my 4-year old son is constantly saying funny things.

One of my favorites?

His bedtime prayers.

Like this one, just last night…

Dear God, I love you. You are stronger than Spinosaurus. And you can walk on water. I can’t walk on water so I’m not God. I would drown. But I can walk on my tiptoes in the swimming pool. Thank you for being God. And thank you for mommy and daddy. I love them. Amen.

Let’s Talk: Any cute kids-say-the-darndest-things stories?

The Christy Awards!

Posted on June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 by Katie Ganshert

Hello from St. Louis!

Tonight, I’ll be hanging out with authors, editors, and agents at the Christy Awards Banquet.

My debut novel, Wildflowers from Winter, is a finalist in the contemporary romance category, alongside Kristin Heitzmann and Irene Hannon.

If you’d like to follow along online, you can! Just click on this link for more details.

Wildflowers from Winter was also a Christian Retailing’s Best finalist. I about choked on my coffee when I saw my name tagging along after Karen Kingsbury and Dee Henderson. Still makes me chuckle, in fact. Winners will be announced at the International Christian Retail Show tomorrow morning. I won’t be able to make it, though, since I’ll be on the road, headed back to my two boys.

I’m beyond humbled and honored to be nominated for both of these awards. Truly.

If you want to check out pictures, I’ll be posting them on my Facebook page!

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. ~James 1:17

Friday Favorite: A Letter to the North American Church

Posted on June 21, 2013June 20, 2013 by Katie Ganshert

This post from Ann Voskamp. That is my favorite from the week.

Her beautiful words and this beautiful truth and those beautiful pictures.

Yes, this….

“You don’t wait until you have more before you give to God – you give now so you get to become more in God. The children are all smiling and singing and there’s all this light coming like dappled deliverance through the leaves.”

And this…

“It’s not having much that makes you rich — it’s the giving much that makes you rich. Give and you are the rich.”

And this…

“I am standing in Africa and there’s a whole Esther Generation and it is us who want hard and holy things because we want more than hollow lives. There’s a whole Esther Generation and it is us who want our children to know the More Life, a life more than self-focus and cell phones, more than iPhones, iTunes, iPads and iLove, who want them to know the More Life of loving the least, the lonely and the lost and tasting the joy of God.”

Let’s Talk: What is your favorite from the week?