Prep Time.
A lesson in preparation & the six things I can’t live without when painting. Seven pm, almost on the dot, my leg neuropathy kicks into...
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Amie Beth
Mar 18, 20224 min read
Let the SUNSHINE in.
These plants, sitting in these windows, on this beautiful day… They are healthy. They are growing. They are happy here. Or at least I...
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Amie Beth
Oct 21, 20203 min read
This Ampersand Life
“I’ve gone through a divorce and I still believe in marriage. I was a single parent, and I still got most things done. I was in a career...
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Amie Beth
Oct 14, 20203 min read
A Beautiful Hope from the Raining Ashes
The mountains in California, and cities surrounding them, are ablaze. Some of those fires are in the mountains not far from our home. Ash...
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Amie Beth
Sep 14, 20204 min read
Hope Floats & Hope Dealers.
Right now, I’m in the proverbial ninth month of birthing a book baby and it feels very much like waiting to birth a real baby. It’s part mis
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Amie Beth
Aug 5, 20205 min read
Breathing Room, a Landing Place, and Hope Fully (hopefully soon).
BOOK UPDATE: Jesus had been tugging at my heart to write this book for YEARS. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but I never started...
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Amie Beth
Jul 31, 20205 min read
Run. Hide. Fight.
I was sitting at work one day this week providing training to a new hire and going over our store Active Shooter Plan. The fact that we...
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Amie Beth
Jul 23, 20205 min read
Empty Places
This week my house is empty. The kids are off at our church camp (except this year it’s not beach camp). They are at a mountain resort,...
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Amie Beth
Jul 14, 20203 min read
Bound to be Bound by Something.
I learned something I never knew about words this week. Maybe you've heard of it, but I had not! Contronym. A single word with two...
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Amie Beth
Jul 7, 20206 min read
Pretty Things. A Pretty Life. And Some Pretty Words.
If you walk up to my front porch you’ll already get a glimpse of my quirky, decorator's heart. There’s a set of rocking chairs with seat...
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Amie Beth
Jun 30, 20204 min read
Mickey Mouse, Grandpa Frank, a child, & HOPE
Six years have passed since he passed. It is summer. Way past hot. The walls wear beads of sweat from the swamp cooler trying to do its...
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Amie Beth
Jun 23, 20203 min read
Corn Pasta and Jesus
The minivan pulls up at the end of my front walkway about the same time I get the text message announcing its arrival. I’m already one...
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Amie Beth
Jun 15, 20204 min read
Hope isn't lonely. Be a Hope Dealer.
I’ve discovered something about finding hope in the middle of a mess that I didn’t expect. Hope isn't lonely. Meet fellow #hopedealer Sami!
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Amie Beth
Jun 9, 20204 min read
For Goodness Sake
I want to tell you, whatever side you fall on, that you are loved. You are seen. You are heard.
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Amie Beth
Jun 2, 20203 min read
Put on your mask & stay six feet from Jesus
As I sit here more than two months into quarantine, I'm asking myself not how I'll cope in the lock down life, but how will I press in
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Amie Beth
May 26, 20204 min read
Jesus Before Tacos, and a note to my NOT single-parent friends.
Jesus Before Tacos (Even on Tuesdays). That's our family motto. I've created us a logo. I've secured the Instagram account name,...
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Amie Beth
May 22, 20202 min read
Flowers and Friendship
Several times in the last couple of months flowers have show up on my doorstep for no other reason than a friend who loves me wanted me...
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Amie Beth
May 15, 20204 min read
Start at the very beginning.
I hope as I open up our messy, downright beautiful life to you that you will see some of yourself in us, see hope in the hard things, and f
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