Kristin Schell
A text from a friend this week: I ❤ ur 31 days but I hate to cook. 🙁 My reply: then don’t 🙂 {What is it with women and emoji?} 5 Ways to Offer Outrageous Hospitality {without cooking!} All these ideas came from a walk through my neighborhood yesterday. Real people doing their thing. 1. Meet a need. My neighbors installed a…
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Remember way back to last week when I shared I wanted to be like Ludmilla? I wondered if I could place a plaque next to the entrance of our home ~ Embassy of the Kingdom of Heaven? Well, I’m pretty sure that this week, I’m more qualified to slap a bumper sticker on the minivan that reads Queen…
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Last night after supper — frozen taquitos from Whole Foods, by the way — the Littles and I went for a walk in our neighborhood. The long awaited cool front, there’s never really a cold one in Austin, blew in over the weekend the Littles declared an after supper walk a must. “It’s a tradition!” one of them shouted already…
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A couple years ago I attended the Verge Network Conference right here in Austin. The mission of the conference that year was Discipleship. I sat in awe as speaker after speaker filled my cup. One of the speakers, Jo Saxton, left such an impression on me I quote a single line from her speech almost daily. In her talk An…
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It’s early Saturday morning. I woke up around 5:00 am, tried to read a little bit and then promptly fell back to sleep. It felt good. Clearly, I’m tired. Last night was the first Friday night since May that our entire family of six were all in town and at home. No traveling, no sleepovers, no football game, no nothing….
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“We always treat guests as angels, just in case.” Brother Jeremiah, early Christian monk When you say “yes” to God, allowing him to teach you about outrageous hospitality, He doesn’t disappoint. In the span of one week, I’ve learned more than my fair share of what outrageous hospitality can look like. I’ve witnessed a community pulling together to be…
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