July memories – 2025 (and preorder announcement!!)

Hello, friends!✨

Man, July was a month for the books! And speaking of books…

Beauty Even Here is now available for preorder!!!

Scurry on over to Amazon if you’d like to order a copy. I am SO excited to finally share this book with you!!✨

Anyway. On to the regular content…

O LORD God of hosts,
Who is mighty like You, O LORD?
Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
You rule the raging of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

psalm 89:8-9

Things worth remembering…

• coffee and crocheting with my mom
• dabbling in songwriting again
• watching fireworks from my brother’s pickup
• not completely missing my cousin’s bridal shower due to traffic…🫠
• completing my twenty-third trip around the sun
• enjoying the malt wagon and the county fair with siblings
• TRAILER RACES
• book club with sisters and friends
• lotsss of music practice
• playing country music over a football game (SO much more fun than listening to the announcer, hehe!)
• my cousin’s wedding🥹🫶🏼
• Getting ARCs of Beauty Even Here sent out (!!!)
• riding a school bus for the very first time in my life (#homeschooled)
• An Anne Wilson concert with my sister😍

Let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

1 Peter 4:9

What I’ve been reading…

The Words We Lost – Nicole Deese

I’m not a fan of the romance genre, but I did so enjoy reading through this book with a book club!! Nicole Deese’s characters and prose were absolutely delightful…and the conversations and elephant pits that sprang up around it were certainly a highlight of the summer.

And honestly, that’s about all…there was so much life this July, I didn’t read too much. XD

Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints!
There is no want to those who fear Him.
The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Psalm 34:9-10

From the journal…

May we be utterly surrendered to You and Your leading. Let our brokenness gentle us to hear Your voice and to joyfully heed.

I know that in making a way, You must clear out a good deal of brush…make our hearts and lives surrendered to Your purpose-filled demolition so You may build beauty here.

Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom
Lead Thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home;
Lead Thou me on;
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see the distant scene,
One step enough for me.

John Henry Newman

❤ Laurel

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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