“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
What a neat giveaway!
Woo Hoo! Have a graduating daughter this month and pretty much all extra $$ are going toward that wonderful cause! You all are so sweet!
I love this idea. How thoughtful of you to think of others but then that’s what you do best.
Looks blissful! I could use a break. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway. ♥
What a fun giveaway for those who can’t getaway! Truly inspiring and something for SOMEONE to look forward to!!
Fran Tyler
I am blessed to be able to get away next week, but would like to enter my friend, Lynn Gray. Her husband is battling stage 4 cancer and their insurance is refusing to pay. This would be a nice treat to brighten her day. Thanks for all you do and God Bless!! {{Hugs}}
Oooohhhhh, how fun is this?!?!?!? Sunshine and beaches are at the top of the list of God’s greatest creations! Thank you for making us all think of thearapeutic moments 🙂
Selina Bruner
I could use a beach scene right about now. I’ve been caged up at home for the last couple of weeks following a Total hysterectomy/ bilateral salpingo oophorectomy. It’s very nice of you to share a smile with someone else!
This sounds absolutely lovely!!
My summer will consist of entertaining my 4 children and attending swim meets. I am looking at this time as my own tropical paradise 🙂
Awww. . .you all are just too precious and sweet. Thank you so much for thinking of us and sharing a wonderful get-away treat. Instead of getting away somewhere, I am looking forward to having some of my grandchildren come for a visit and enjoying them this summer.
What a great blessing!
It would be TOTALLY AWESOME to win this giveaway 🙂
My name is Mandy Fisher. No summer vacation for me I start back to school next week(after being out for over 10 years!) Wish me luck! Thanks for your blog! It’s great
A chance for a little bit of fun! Thanks. We don’t have any plans specifically, probably a few short trips here and there.
I would love to win any of these!
Yes!! enter me 🙂 Love your summer fun items! I would love to get one of those things…Just recently finished the James study and really appreciated all your hard work that you put into the “going deeper with Melissa”. I really got so much out of that study. I will look forward to your future insight. Thanks for all your inspiration! Have a fabulous summer!!
Paige
I would love to win these lovely things.
Oooh a giveaway! So sorry for you Melissa. I have had the Mexico bug…. and now it literally is called “MEXICO” in our house.
WOW….I would love to have this goody bag!
Jaynie West
Oh what a wonderful, relaxing, and enjoyable gift idea… It’s like the beach is with you in the comfort of your own home… Beach getaway that’s not so far away.
How exciting! I feel like a winner already. Love your blog, alway excited to receive your message. I am enjoying the beach in Destin, FL for a couple of weeks. Lots of reading, studying and reflecting, i am loving it. Thanks, LPM. Love you bunches, nellg
What a fun assortment! I look forward to the Living Proof Ministry blog every day – many blessings on you servants of our Lord and on all whose lives you touch.
YES! YES! YES! Please enter me in the give-away.
This would be so cool since the beach is no where in my near future! Thanks!!
Wow, I would love to win something like what you have shown! And no, we aren’t going away at all this summer. Thanks for such a cute offering!
What a fun idea!! Thanks!!
What a random, encouraging giveaway!! So fun. Thanks for all you ladies do to encourage and lift us up in God’s name!
Thank you; what fun!
What a wonderful treat! Thank you for summer blessings!
Sounds fun! Thank you! 🙂
What a blessing! So glad God brought you into my life!
Alicia Simpson
Do not see a vacation of any kind in my near future and have not been on one for several years. But God is so good to me and he knows I would love any of these tokens.
would love to win this giveaway 🙂
This is wonderful! What a loving heart you have to do this give away. Thankfully, I will have a vacation this year. I pray God Blesses the winner beyond this giftaway and Blesses you for you love for us!
What a blessing it would be to win! Thank you for sending a little Sonshine to who ever wins.
Howdy! Hola! and all that! Thanks for this giveaway! I can’t wait!
Tonia Knight. I would love to win! Too many medical tests going on for the past six months with no answers yet. This would be a great pick me up!
Yeah! I love summer and it looks like a super fun package…think I would have to share with my BFF whose husband is in a coma. I hate being far away from her during this crazy time! We are both pastor’s wives!
Dear Siestas, have a happy summer, ilove you all and so enjoy this Blog xoxo love and prayers
d
Oh this looks wonderful! I will be missing the beach this summer in order to save money for our adoption journey. Please enter me!
Gloria Hunsberger
What a wonderful smile package!!
Oh, how I would love to win the cookbook for my daughter! She has a culinary degree and loves the Test Kitchen cookbooks…however, her job is full-time Mom with two very active little ones, 2 and 7 months. We talked about flying to Colorado together, then cracked up at the thought of wrangling her kiddos on the 5 hour flight it takes from Alaska. Thanks for the thoughtful idea for whomever recieves it!
What a fabulous idea! Happy Summer to all of you.
Becky Ryan
What treats those things would be! Here’s hoping! Barbie Batura
The weather in Ohio has been insanely warm and I was loving the sunshine this weekend. Hope you are feeling better Melissa!
This would be amazing. We can’t afford vacations, or frankly even most of the stuff being given away, for that matter, and it would be so fun to share this stuff with my 13 year old daughter!
I love the sound of waves crashing on the beach. I did not know there was a candle that smelled like the beach. That is awesome!!
Thanks for the info.