by lisa rippy | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
There is a color for walls that seems to be growing in popularity and as I talked with a woman in Hobby Lobby recently, it was a color that I just had to share with her. She had mentioned, while on the phone with her friend, that she had used Sherwin Williams Natural...
by lisa rippy | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog
Planning. It’s how I begin each new week and each new morning, and for 2025, I started a whole new approach to planning. (More to come.) But for 3 very simple reasons, planning is paramount in my life. Some reasons are simply because I’m 56 now and I HAVE to write...
by lisa rippy | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog
While I was typing out today’s title, “Design Starts with Purpose” I couldn’t help but think about Proverbs 25:11 – “An idea well-expressed is like a design of gold, set in silver.” (Good News Translation) There is no other...
by lisa rippy | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog, Engaging Family, Growing Spiritually, Improving Health, Inspiration, Inspiring Home
If there was a book titled, “How to Destroy Personal Relationships” I wonder how many people would actually want to read it? Can you imagine such a publication, reading like a manual – giving step-by-step actions that a person can take in order to...
by lisa rippy | Jul 7, 2025 | Blog
Cheerful. That is such a wonderful word to describe a home, isn’t it? . When used in the form of a noun, it means “optimism, happiness and confidence.” An example of cheer as a noun is, “His dad was full of cheer as he watched his son play his...
by lisa rippy | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog
When it comes to the special projects in our home, it had to be creating a dining space that took the most “Rip work!” We wanted the dining space to have a look and invitational feel to it like what you’d experience in an old southern antebellum home...
by lisa rippy | Jan 3, 2024 | Blog
John MacArthur cautioned Christians, back in May 2017, regarding their effort to avoid and eliminate sinful spiritual toxins from their life. He said … “Consider a person who exercises fastidiously and holds to a strict diet but also abuses alcohol and...
by lisa rippy | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog
Nathan Isaac Harris had his baby dedication ceremony at Broadmoor Baptist Church a few weeks ago and it was not only THE sweetest thing…but the family came together to just enjoy being “one” in committing to him and to his parents, as we all...
by lisa rippy | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog
Now that I’m 55 years old, I read a devotional like the one below with such eager spiritual eyes. Now that I’m a grandmother, and with many young wives and mothers now divinely placed in my life, being the ‘older woman’ that Paul instructs is...
by lisa rippy | Dec 12, 2023 | Blog
It was a nice day on October 18, 1994, when I went for a walk while waiting and praying for my first born to come. The due date was long past and the anticipation of holding my baby in my arms was motivating me to do all I could to encourage their coming! And it...
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