“My husband is in Afghanistan and a few ‘favorite things’ would brighten my day!”
How about that, Sisters?!? OK, Edie, please contact Living Proof Ministries at toll free (888) 700-1999 and give us an address. Please ask for Kimberly or Susan. Knowing what we now know, all of us here would want so much to send you to the beach…but, instead, we’re sending the beach to you. ENJOY!!!
PROCEED WITH CAUTION: this post will embody most everything you anticipate and perhaps even despise about women’s ministry. There will even be pink nail polish. As the great Professor Thornbury said a few weeks ago on the Twitterverse “something is not a stumbling block if you can see it coming.” So, consider yourself warned.
Colin and I just returned from a week at the beach in Mexico. It was crazy fantastic. I slept. I read classic literature. I also swam with a dolphin named Duey. And on the day I returned home I was greeted abrasively by a stomach bug and a crick in my neck so bad I could barely move my head. Oh, and then my 100 lb puppy Winston ate my over-priced prescription eye-glasses. But how can I really be frustrated with this bad boy?
Anyway, since this weekend was the Memorial Day holiday I scrolled through numerous tweets from people who were somewhere fabulous while I was at home with a bag of frozen corn under my neck. And I began to weep for the serenity of the ocean and my dolphin Duey.
But enough about me.
I want to talk about you.
I got to thinking that there may be some of you who won’t get a break this summer. While nearly everyone you know is off to some fabulous island, you won’t get a moment’s rest. For whatever reason, you won’t be able to retreat to the beach or the mountains or to wherever else makes your heart happy. We want to send a little fun and lots of love your direction so we’re doing a random give-away. And it will not include commentaries, concordances, or anything super useful or meaningful.
This giveaway is simply full of some of my personal favorite summer things including: Bobbi Brown Beach parfum (seriously smells exactly like the beach!), classic Ray-Ban aviators, Votivo Candle in White Ocean Sands, a pair of bright yellow Moleskine notebooks, Tea Forte’ Pomegranate Blackberry Iced Tea, and America’s Test Kitchen Best Summer Dessert recipes. See the contents below:
There are really no conditions for this giveaway. My hope, of course, is that this gift makes it into the hands of someone who simply can’t get a break this year and not someone who is heading to the Maldives or Bora Bora next week to stay in one of those little huts with glass floors sprawled across sparkling turquoise waters. But truly, if this gift brings a big smile to a single one of your faces that is quite enough for me.
So, please enter your name in the comments section if you could use a little sunshine in your world. We’ll do a random drawing and announce the winner at noon on this Thursday the 31st.
You are loved.
Melissa
This is all so much un 😉 love everything! Thanks for sharing the goodies.
Please, please, please!!!!
I’m single & need/want a vacation. Vacationing alone isn’t fun. But winning something that looks or smells like a vacation would be an awesome!
Thanks!
Denise Rosenbalm
Such fun. Thanks Melissa.
You are so thoughtful! I would like to enter not for me but for my mom who works way too hard & won’t have a vacation this summer.
Well, OF COURSE, I’d love this givaway. Who wouldn’t?! Actually, if I get it, I think I’ll split it among some of my besties 🙂
Would love this mini get a way!
The sweet ess of this post brought a lots sunshine to my very cloudy day (and gave me some ideas of new things to try, the tea perhaps)! Fingers crossed you’ll pick me…. Dana FROM
GA
Beaches, sunshine, pink nail polish, reading books…AH, summer at its finest! If only I could get those all into mine. Thanks for the day dream. xo Siesta!
Just reading this e-mail provided a breath of refreshment! Oh to live centered in His will this summer…where ever it is! Happy Summer
Boy could I use a beach these days, I’d settle for the gift though:)
Christy
There are things that make a day a little brighter. This ministry is one of them! 🙂
I AM building sandcastles in my dreams with my 5 little children and Pastor Husband! We’ll vacation in our backyard this summer!
Can’t get anywhere tropical, nor have I ever been, would love this :). Would love to be entered, thank you.
Nightingale
Thanks Melissa! What a fun prize!
How sweet of you to think of the Siestas! My husband and I just took a full time, voluntary position as youth/children’s pastors at a small church…no vacation for us this year! I would be grateful for the scent of the beach!
I could soooo use a vacation…even if it is a virtual one. In my mind I am already there.
I would love to win this. Thank you for the opportunity, Debbie Foster
I am not heading to any fancy holiday. Instead I am in the process of moving into a very small condo. It’s called downsizing and it’s hard. I am on summer break though from teaching Pre-K 3 in a private school. You got me with the Bobbi Brown Beach. When it first came out years ago, I was able to purchase a bottle and loved it. Nothing like smelling like the beach when you live in the desert of Phoenix.
Blessings and love,
Debbie
What a wonderful gift! Thank you,
God Bless you,
Kellie Lindstrom
This is a perfect summer give away! Thanks! 🙂
Gretchen Miller–What a great giveaway!!
How fun! What a nice surprise for someone. Sometimes a staycation versus a vacation is equally exciting.
I am not able to have a vacation this year. I have been seeing pictures of the beach and have been fighting a little jealousy. I know I am right where God wants me but sure would like to have a time to rest in God’s nature. Thank you for realizing some of us cannot go away!!
Thanks for thinking of those of us who won’t be able to make it to the beach this summer. Looks like a lots of fun goodies to bring a little “sunshine” and pleasant reminders of a place I love to go!
Drawing for a fun basket of Beachness….Im in!! BTW – I dont have any cool vacations planned 🙂 Just fun with the kiddos.
Bring on the sunshine!
Fun, fun, fun!
What a fun gift. No beaches for me this summer, so this could be a great make believe time.
What fun! Terri Geis, Overland Park, KS
Thank you for thinking of us. You goodies are sure to cheer up anyone’s day! Blessings!
Thank you for putting this bag of goodies together. Praying that it will go to the one who would be encouraged the most. Blessings to you!!
Cassie Black 🙂
Sounds wonderful! A getaway in a giveaway! What a gift!
Great selection of gifts!
Cari Reed
I will be home caring for a special needs grandchild. This will be a wonderful prize to win. God bless you. I am currently doing DAVID and loving all the homework assignments.
Melissa, No beach for us this year since we just moved to Texas(San Antonio)after my husband retired from the Air Force(21 years). WE are still trying to get settled into civilian life and his new job has him traveling every other week. You are so sweet to think of others with this care package. May the person who needs it most receive it.
In HIM,
Jeanne
Just started a new job after 5 months of unemployment. So I’m looking forward to staycations this year!
Perefect beach bag!
I’m a 1st grade teacher teaching summer school all summer 🙂 A little beach would be lovely right about now!
How fun!! thanks so much!!
No beach for me and I only live an hour away from one..that’s torture in itself knowing it’s so close and I still can’t get there 🙂
I could use some Son shine for sure!
I want it, it looks so good! Thanks for sharing Melissa. I don’t get to go on vacation this summer but I so much want to go on a mission’s trip to El Salvador. Pray for provision for me please.
I would enjoy any one of these great gifts. Thanks.
Pick me! Pick me! Oh please!
Bless you Melissa!
Cindy Strong
Tracy Harwood – How Fun!!!
WOW…. what a neat gift to give to us who are “homebound” Even if my name is not picked I say thank you for the thought!
What an amazing idea! You are too sweet! Mandy Ballard
Too, too, too sweet! How much fun! I smiled just reading this post! Thank you Melissa 🙂