Don’t forget that Tuesday at 3 pm is your deadline if you want to write up something on the topic of “The Beauty of Hope” for The Carnival of Beauty next week. If you’re new to my site and you don’t know what I’m talking about, this is a weekly gathering of posts from Christian women bloggers. You can read the guidelines here. It was started by Sallie of Two Talent Living, but she’s taking a break right now, so different people have stepped in to host it. This week, Ellen of MzEllen & Co. is the hostess. So, go to her site, get her email address, then send her your link and a brief description.

Here’s a great excuse to write something you’ll want to keep. Most of the time I blog, I just link around to other interesting things — but this Carnival gives me an excuse to really think about something, and write it. I tell my kids it’s like I have homework too.

Now the topic of hope — this is very important! How can we go through a day of life without hope? There’s nothing dearer to our faith. What brings you hope? What memories do you have that are full of hope — or what future dreams can you share with us? What are your favorite verses that offer you hope?

It would be great if Ellen gets 50 submissions this week — if you’re busy, write something short. One paragraph even! Let’s make this a true Garden of Hope that we can all capture the link to and return to visit when we need a dose of hope.

Ellen writes of this week’s Carnival:

Here are a couple of suggestions that we’re finding make things a little easier for the hostesses:
– send links to both your blog and the individual post.
– send a short description of your post (to have it in third person really helps!)

I’m discovering a lot of new blogs to read daily – I’m having to weed out my bookmarks. I’m also very glad I have firefox with the “open in tabs” feature!

Thank you all for participating!

Set your timer and write something!