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Growing {Colorful} Water Marbles

Remember these fabulous, squishy little things we ‘grew’ a while back? Well, we felt we could knock it up a notch by putting food coloring to good use {rather than, you know, adding neurotoxins to our food) and adding a pop of color to these little gems. Instead of soaking the water beads {I got […]

Crafts and Activities, Family, The Kiddos, Tutorial

The Basics of Healthy Eating {with Printable Encouragement Cards}

We have about 25 women who have joined forces to encourage each other {via a facebook group} as we work to cut refined sugars out of our diets in 2013. And it’s awesome! The journey is always more fun together.  The shared wisdom, chin-lifting & recipe ideas are just beginning to take off and I’m […]

Daily Life, Designs, Food, Frugal Living, Garden, Health, Printables

2013 : The Lost Art of Sacrifice

I realize this renders me a freak of nature, but I really like Mondays.  Less freakish is my adoration of the new year. You see, I love new beginnings. I live for fresh starts. Do-overs rock my socks off. And my muffin-top, if done correctly. My hubby thinks I am a dork {albeit a “cute” […]

Faith, Goals, Grace, Home, Keepin' it Real

Merry & BRIGHT Christmas {Printable}

I love the idea of little gifts for little class mates on special occasions.  And I especially love the idea of not going broke in the process, or dolling out more sweets to an already sugar-charged crew.                          Enter : glow sticks & a printable! I was inspired by this adorable valentine version I’d seen […]

Christmas, Crafts and Activities, Cute Stuff, Printables, School, The Kiddos

Chaos Simplified Women’s {Life} Planners

Well, ladies, the wait is over. The Chaos Simplified Women’s {Life} Planners are printed and ready to be shipped out!  Despite numerous setbacks in the printing process, sweet Corri has buckled down and pressed on to grab ahold of her dream of making the hippest, most practical & efficient life planner on earth. And here […]

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Butternut Squash & Kale Pizza

There is no question about my love affair with squash.  I just dig it.  Summer.  Acorn.  Zucchini.  I could live without the stringy spaghetti variety, in all honesty, but my all time favorite remains Butternut. It just makes my palate happy. I am, on the other hand, trying very hard to get along with kale.  […]

Food, Garden, Health

Happy December {Desktop} Wallpaper

Our tree is finally up, and let me just tell you, frasier fir is the way to go! It was suggested to us last year after we made the mistake of acquiring the “smells distinctly like cat pee” tree.  This one actually smells sweet and piney, as a Christmas tree should, and the fact that […]

Christmas, Designs, Photography

Happy {Homemade} Christmas

It occurred to me last month, as Christmas crept sneakily toward us, that my desire to actually attempt some of the smashing homespun gift ideas I’d been pinning with passion, combined with my astounding ability to procrastinate, were a match made in hades. And then I promptly forgot that profound thought and continued on my […]

Christmas, Designs, Food, Frugal Living, Home, Printables, Tutorial

Butternut Squash & Mushroom Lasagna

You should know, I’ve never actually made “normal” lasagna.  I’ve plopped the stuff into a muffin pan for ‘Cupcake Lasagna’, and now have smooshed butternut squash puree and shrooms between layers of pasta…but the meat & ‘mater based kind, I have yet to try.  A little backwards, am I. Since watching Food Inc. and Forks […]

Food, Garden

How to be a Royally Obnoxious Christian in 15 Easy Steps

A Tongue-in-Cheek Message to {Churchy} Church Folk 1. Talk the Talk : Speak in King James lingo with awkward familiarity, boasting a heavy dose of “Christianese”. Be sure to mention “being washed in the blood of the Lamb”, while dropping words like “sanctified”, “righteousness” and “cleansing” like cheerios in the hands on toddlers. Throw in […]

Faith, Grace, Keepin' it Real

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Hello there! I'm Joy. Speaker, designer, author & coach, and creator of the #weROARproject. Welcome to Simply Bloom Co., where passion & purpose collide.

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May you remember that God is not only the God of d May you remember that God is not only
the God of destinations, but of detours.

When life takes you somewhere you never intended to go,
may you recognize that you have not been forgotten.

May you have eyes to see the people in front of you,
hands willing to gather the sticks,
courage to shake off the snakes,
a heart willing to welcome and be welcomed,
and faith to believe that even here,
especially here, God is at work.
What if the place you keep calling a detour is act What if the place you keep calling a detour is actually part of the story?

Paul was headed to Rome. Instead, he ended up shipwrecked on Malta.
It wasn't the destination. But it mattered.

A reminder for all of us: don't waste the waiting,
the detour, or the place you didn't choose.

🎙️ 042 | Make Malta Matter | Finding Purpose in Divine Detours
  The latest Oh, Good Grief Podcast episode is out now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #MakeMaltaMatter #SimplyBloomCo
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What if the years you thought were wasted… weren't What if the years you thought were wasted…
weren't wasted at all?

In Part 2 of my conversation with Leah Harvey,
we go deeper into what it means to trust
God when the outcome is still unknown.

Leah has spent years carrying the ache of infertility,
and she doesn't offer a tidy answer or a spiritual shortcut.

Instead, she talks about restoration.
About eternity.
About choosing Jesus over her preference.
About looking for treasure in the middle of the story.

And about the surprising realization that there
may not have been wasted years after all,
because God was present in every one of them.

He is.
Even here.
Even now.

🎧 Part Two with Leah Harvey is live now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
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What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean bel What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean
believing He will give us everything we ask for?

That's one of the questions my friend Leah Harvey
and I wrestle with in this week's episode.

Leah and her hubby, Jake, have walked through years
of infertility and the kind of unanswered prayer that
doesn't just hurt once—it asks you to keep
trusting God over and over again.

We talk about grief, surrender, the questions we sometimes feel afraid to ask, and what happens when we stop trying to put tidy answers over messy pain.

This is a tender conversation about choosing Jesus over our preferences, embracing the mystery of God, and learning to believe that His goodness doesn't depend on whether He gives us the thing we're asking for.

Part One of my conversation with Leah Harvey is live now
🎧  040 | The Goodness of God in the Waiting

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
Before the world told you who you needed to become Before the world told you who you needed to become...
Before fear taught you how to survive...
Before shame convinced you to hide...
God looked at you and called you His own.

Not because you had healed.
Not because you had figured yourself out.
Not because you had become your best self.
Simply because you were His.

You are still becoming.
And you are already loved.

Keep coming home.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #SimplyBloomCo
What if the goal isn't to become a different type, What if the goal isn't to become a different type,
but to become more fully yourself?

We've spent the last several weeks exploring the Enneagram:
our gifts, wounds, coping strategies, and the stories we
learned to believe in order to survive.

Now it's time to come home.

Episode 039 closes this Summer Series by asking
what happens when self-awareness becomes surrender.

The Enneagram can help us understand our patterns.
But it was never meant to become our identity.

You are not your number.
You are not your trauma.
You are not your coping strategy.

You are a beloved child of God.

🎧 Oh, Good Grief — Episode 039 is available now.
Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, m Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, my Bible and a book of maps in my lap, and the sun on my face, has me thinking about how strange and beautiful life can be.

It’s no small honor to be given the opportunity to preach at our church from time to time. Had you told the broken, shoplifting, lying, giving-her-body-away-for-free teenage girl I once was that one day she’d stand in a pulpit and talk to people about God’s goodness and grace, I would have laughed at you.

But maybe that’s exactly why God delights in using the messy, the unlikely, the misfits. Because these are the stories that make His redemption impossible to miss.

One of my favorite lines from The Chosen, spoken by Mary Magdalene, sums it up perfectly: “I was one way, and now I am completely different. And the thing that happened in between was Him.”

That’s my story, too.
And if I were to hazard a guess, it's yours as well.

It’s one of my greatest joys to dig into God’s Word, share what He’s laid on my heart, offer some encouragement and conviction, confess the uncomfortable things, and ultimately point people back to Jesus.

Because there’s no denying the extraordinary power of redemption when you’ve lived it yourself.
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