“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
Sherri Sams
:)…I’m game!
My name is Lucy E. V.
Thanks a bunch!
What fun!!
Oh yea!
Sorry about your neck Melissa! I know about neck pain. I currently go to the Chiro 3x a week after 2 rear enders in under 3years. Thanks for thinking of us gals 🙂 Blessings to you!!!
April
Melissa,
YOU ARE SUCH A WOMAN OF LOVE,GIVING, AND INTEGRITY!!
Praying that it goes to a person that will smell,see,touch,hear,taste each give-away gift that you are so generously giving! What a wonderful idea!
I think I will join you in the giving!!!
Maybe some front door surprises! 🙂
SONshine blessings from the coast of California,
Kim Safina
Such a great idea! 🙂
Thanks for the fun drawing!
andrea walker
What an amazing looking give-away!!!
Starting Daniel Bible study on Sunday, and I always give away door prizes….how cool would it be for one of these snazzy items to be one from you 🙂
Wow! This sounds great!!!
Angie Gates
Just placed the cookbook on hold at my library. Thank you for the inspiration. I have been having a difficult day today and you reminded me there are better days ahead. Thank you.
This looks like it would add lots of fun to my summer stay-cation at home with my three boys. Girl-time!
Kristin
I long for the beach!!! Hope I get there this summer if even in my mind…
What fun! I love the beach 🙂
What a blessing! Not the stomach bug. Even though Winston was naughty it was because he was missing you…. Summer treats are fun! : )
LOVE….what a great idea!
Thank you for sharing. Have a great summer!
Colleen Ryan
Gosh I could use a real vacation.. I am in nursing school and I am exhausted and run down. BUT, I am so very thankful for the opportunity and I am looking forward to God working great things through me in the future, it’s worth the little sacrifice to have to wait till next summer to enjoy the beach lol.. 🙂
Thanks for the incredible blog, the always encouraging words, the constant inspiration, the real life and the love <3 You ladies all truly are Living Proof!
Y’all are so sweet!
Sarah Spencer
This is so nice and sunny. Would be a welcomed relief. I can smell the ocean!
would love it…moving this summer, so not much vacation
This is great!! What an encouraging idea 🙂
This looks absolutely amazing! Thanks for reminding us that Christian women are allowed to love pink nail polish 🙂
I would love to win this! We can’t get away this year due to caring for my husband’s mother and the kids. Definitely the sandwich thing this year.
Everything in the package looks amazing. What a great idea to minister to those of us who can’t get away from it all this year.
Blessings to all at LPM. Y’all are wonderful.
Vacation – what’s that!?
Yay! How fun!
Adela Just
I love summer and giveaways !
This looks wonderful!
Jeanette Neels
I would love to win this. My vacation this summer consists of moving to another state, leaving my daughter here to finish college and celebrating the marriage of my oldest daughter. so busy
These are great goodies. Would be a great summer pick me up!!! Thanks for sharing!
Submitting my name because I have a couple of friends who could use a pick me up..this summer. If my name is picked I plan to give it to one of them. May His Blessings be upon you.
Thanks so much for the great give-away.
I would surely use those products!!!! Thanks for thinking of us, and I hope you are feeling better.
How fun to see what your favorite things are. Thanks for sharing!
GOD IS TRULY GOOD ALL OF THE TIME!
Love the give away items. Feels like summer!
Thanks so much!
Great idea! One of the reasons I love this blog.
Wish me luck!!
Awesome!! What great favorite things!
Thank you so much for doing this!
This is a great idea, and I know the perfect person to whom I would give this to if I were to win it!
Oh me I can almost smell the beach.
How fun! Thank you! 🙂
Not going anywhere 🙁 unless you count Colorado Springs for LPL…. which is pretty sweet.
What a lovely give-away!
Melana 🙂
I’m having a baby girl due July 5th, so there will be no vacationing for me this summer! Though there will be lots of snuggling 🙂
Jenna Hansen
How thoughtful! This is a great idea!