“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
Love this idea!
What a lovely gift. I think we have lots of the same favorite things 🙂
Absolute summer fun!! Thank you for thinking of this!
The beach!! The absolutely most relaxing place on earth! Even thinking about it–the sounds of the waves and seagulls, the salty (sometimes somewhat fishy) smell, and the warmth of the sunshine–makes me sit back and relax!
Totally fun idea!
Hope to actually SMELL the Bobbi Brown perfume 🙂
Leslee Doyle
I could definitely use a little break with these nice things. Money is very tight so it’s not very often that I can splurge! Please enter me in the drawing. Thank you!!
I, Tricia Garrett, would love to create a day at the beach for myself and friends with all your favorite things:) thanks for the opportunity! Good luck everyone!
Looks like a wonderful prize package. I would especially like to try the tea! 🙂
LOVE THE DOG!! Is he in the package??!! This summer is not looking good for a break…however, rejoicing that in the busyness my family is healthy, finances are being provided for and JESUS still reins! Happy Summer!~Lyn
I could sure use a little sunshine in my life right now. It made me smile to have the chance to enter.
what an awesome treat! whoever wind will be truely blessed!
Have to say this beach combo sounds almost as good as going!
All of it sounds wonderful. Please enter me in the drawing. This blog never fails to make me smile. Love all of you guys!!!
What a wonderful blessing this surprise would be. Thank-you for your thoughtfulness…God bless.
hey
My heart jumped when I heard give away. We do have a planned time to go away,however that is slowing closing as we just dont have the funds. both hubby and I are discouraged as we really need time away.
blessing
debbie
I could really use a “Calgon…take me away” respite. Love everything about the Moore family! Blessings!!
What an adorable idea and I especially love the ” I’ll be making sand castles in my dreams”. I’m praying this can bless someone who can’t afford any of these things. BLess you for this summer pick-me-up!
I love the beach. It’s one of my favorite places.
Oh, how I could use a “getaway”! 🙂 Please enter my name!
Haven’t stayed on the beach overnight since our honeymoon over 20 yrs. ago, but love the ocean waves and squishing warm sand between my toes!
Sarah Thrasher
I am home all summer, working part time and taking care of the kids when they are off of school. I don’t think we are going to be able to get away for a vacation this year, so anything beach/summer fun related would be really neat!
Thanks for doing this Melissa!!!
Pick me!!!
This is beautiful. I need some sun. Here in our mountain town I will stay all summer and the weather is not being nice. Lol.
I sure could use a retreat with those nice treats. Here’s to trying. Love ya.
Could use a mini stay-cation, for sure!
Would LOVE to win this!
Tiffany Barker
Thank you to all of you at Living Proof~
A little Sonshine for the Summer would be greatly
appreciated.
Love all of you,
Bless you Beth and
all of your amazing team.
Cynthia
I will have a working vacation this summer, chaperoning a trip to DC with the patrols kiddos! Praying God’s favor for whoever gets this gift. What an awesome gesture from LPM:)
I could use some fun in the sun! I’m in the process of moving, switching jobs and buying a house! I need something to be purely fun! 🙂
What a very sweet and thoughtful gift. I would love to win 🙂 I’m going to remember your idea because “beach in a box” would make such a thoughtful gift!!
So nice of you! Mother of 3 here (youngest 7 weeks old) so this gesture is very much appreciated! I hope someone is blessed by this giveaway!!!
Thanks Beth, Melissa & Amanda for your all your time & sharing, wouldn’t miss it! Bless y’all,like you would say…
jst another sista, Julie
Would love all this…what a sweet giveaway!!
May the best siesta win!!
Melissa,
What a great idea and blessing!! I just finished ending a very unhealthy marriage after 42 years. The divorce was final in April. The house sold in May–still tired from the cleaning and emotional process of letting it go. There will be no special trip for me this summer, except through the book of James with you and your mom, and my Bible study group. But I need to give God all the glory for the way in which He has provided and guided through this extremely difficult road I have been on. He is SO faithful.
Blessings to all of you at Living Proof, Avayd Ann
What a lovely giveaway!
This is very thoughtful of you! Awesome!
What a treat!
What a wonderful gift! I am also throwing my name in! I love your writing..you are a huge encouragement in my life! Thank you!!!
I grew up near the ocean, and Have lived in the midwest for the last 11 years I miss the beach so much… Yankee Candle has a scented candle called beach walk and I light it when I need that beach smell. Great Idea in the give away.
Jennifer Best
That is a wonderful idea. Thanks so much. I never win anything 🙂
I’m at the opposite swing of the pendulum in regard to a trip to the beach. I did get to sit in the sun for the first time last week for a half hour in the backyard. It was wonderful. I’ve come to realize that trying to schedule a day away isn’t going to happen, but I’m going to spend more time, in small increments, just giving myself a break.
Woo Hoo! My husband is a youth pastor and we are about to celebrate our one year anniversary! As much as we would love to embark to amazing places like Bora Bora (one day !!!) we are in Houston for this time around. I would love to receive a little of summer fun and beach fun- because we all know that the Galveston beach is not a great place to relax =P.
Regardless of who gets this, Thanks for all the things you all do at LIving Proof, your ministry has blessed my life as well as the many women in our church!
PS our puppy is about 85 lbs and we love how he still likes to sit on our lap like he is still small =)
What a lovely beach vacation-in-a-bag. No beach in my future (or other vacation) anytime soon. But I am thankful that despite having no vacation time built up my hubs has a job. 🙂
I would love to enter my name in the drawing for this really neat gift. I know just exactly who I am going to give it to – should I win.
Thanks for everything that ALL of you do for women at Living Proof Ministries.
Blessings!
Susie
Rather than going anywhere this summer, I’ll be helping my basketball-playing son recover from foot surgery. Not that I was going to be able to go anywhere in the first place, the surgery just makes sure that I won’t be. I am truly very grateful anyway. Thank you!!
This “summer get a way in a bag” sounds like heaven. I have my eyes closed and my fingers crossed. Pick me, Pick me, Pick me. Thanks.
I would so love to enter this contest. I just lost my job, but God has supplied me with some temp work, as a dental hygienist. I have been able to work a day here and there. But, my income has dramatically dropped. So, no beach for me! Susan