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Knowing Our Neighbors: A response to the Austin Bombings

I’m sitting at my kitchen desk, watching through the window as a FedEx truck pulls up to my neighbor’s house. Normally I wouldn’t give pause to a package being left in plain sight on their doorstep, but today is different. Today, the serial bomber in Austin, Texas is dead. The terror of deadly packages and unsuspecting tripwire, however, still looms…
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Living Prepared, Not Perfect: Hospitality

Oh Hey 2018! I see you there with all your promise and possibility. Shiny new journals and healthy new habits and bold resolutions. You temptress, you. I’m not ready. Nope. And, I’m not going to fight it either. As my friend Lara Casey says, “There’s nothing magical about January 1.” I have a celebration chaos hangover. Maybe you feel this…
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Queso and God

I really wanted my 2018 Word to be queso. I’ve long contended the answer to world peace must lie in a bowl of queso and salty tortilla chips. Living out a year of queso wouldn’t be easy, but I was fully prepared to surrendered myself to the job. #bodybyqueso Can I get an amen? Despite the potential for world peace,…
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One Simple Act Changed Our Family Dinner

“Take every opportunity to open your life and home to others.” Romans 12:13 (The Voice) I lead a ministry based on hospitality and bring people together at The Turquoise Table Community. Our key verse is Romans 12:13, in which Paul invites us to take every opportunity to open up our life and home to others. And yet, my own family’s…
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Gather Small & Love Deep

Ordinary Moments Matter I started using the phrase “gather small and love deep” long before I fully realized what it meant. Intuitively I knew the Turquoise Table was perfectly designed for four to six people—small gatherings. And being at the table, facing each other and sitting side by side, would allow an intimacy to listen and have real conversations. What…
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Loving Your Neighbor When Disaster Strikes

Hurricane Harvey Dares to Mess with Texas Our neighbors to the south — all 6.5 million of them — are suffering the wrath of Hurricane Harvey. The Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph made landfall on Friday near Corpus Christi ravaging the coastline. Since then, Houston and surrounding areas have been devastated by an unprecedented amount of rain…
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Quick trip to our happy place. #estespark #rockymo Quick trip to our happy place. #estespark #rockymountains
Happy Easter! 🐣🐇 ✝️ Happy Easter! 🐣🐇 ✝️
My little Valentine turns 18!! 🥰💕❄️ Happ My little Valentine turns 18!! 🥰💕❄️ Happy birthday @ellieeschell We love you so much!
Looks like we’ll be snowed in this Valentine’s Looks like we’ll be snowed in this Valentine’s Day! Between quarantine and ice our 💕 plans will feel a bit different this year! 

That won’t keep us from celebrating our #1 Valentine who turns 18 on Sunday! And since I’m feeling nostalgic I’ve rounded up some of our recipes from celebrations past! I bet you find something to make your Valentine’s Day sweet. (Link to recipes in profile)

If you’re in the mood for some serious 💗 inspiration I’d like to introduce you to some extra special and super creative friends! 

@teresa.swanstrom.anderson 
@orangegrovecorner 
@eryn_whalen_online 
@linenandcake 

I’ll be sharing their valentine inspiration in stories through the day! 

In the meantime, I’m grateful for:

grocery store tulips 🌷 
take out 🍱 
upside down pineapple 🍍 birthday cake
homemade valentines 💌
neighbors who bring sweet treats 🍰 

What does your Valentine weekend look like?

#celebratehome #valentinesday #birthday #valentines #chocolatecake #milkshake #celebrate
Have you ever had pashka? A sweet friend from chur Have you ever had pashka? A sweet friend from church — who I haven’t seen in person in ONE solid year— just delivered this traditional Russian dessert. She said she hasn’t hosted a gathering in so long she decided to pull out all her heart molds and make a favorite dessert to surprise her friends.

💕🍰

What a special way to offer hospitality during Covid. I feel sooooo loved and my family will go nuts! 

Now I’m thinking of what I miss making for guests that I can whip up and deliver this weekend. 🚐💌 

What do you miss making? What if we all dropped off some sweet love to someone we miss this Valentine’s Day?!? 💗🥰
💕 Sunday funday making Valentine cards for heal 💕 Sunday funday making Valentine cards for healthcare workers in our community. Our church is collecting Love Letters to send to one of our local hospitals. Such a great idea, right? 

🥰 💌

There’s plenty of time to make some cards and let people in your neighborhood know they are loved! 

#valentines #frontlineworkers #healthcareworkers #love #neighbors #community
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