I had the pleasure of meeting with Circle of Friends author Elizabeth Ward this week to interview her about her brand new book, Can I Get a Do-Over? The Grace of Second Chances. Liz’s book is the second in the new series of books that Circle of Friends has produced with Barbour Publishing called Women [...]
I find that when God has a lesson for me to learn, it becomes a running theme in my life. Everywhere I turn, I hear the same message – at church, in my Bible study, in my reading, at conferences I attend. He speaks the message so often, through so many venues, that I can’t [...]
I had the most wonderful weekend at the Cornerstone University Women’s Leadership Conference. I can’t wait to share some stories with you AND host another give away. Let’s just say I was floored by a couple of the talks that the main speaker Elisa Morgan gave. She happened to talk in depth about something we’ve [...]
The other day the doorbell rang and I saw a package on the porch with my name on it from DaySpring. I can’t even tell you how much I love packages and cards that come in the mail with that flower-y DaySpring logo. Especially on dreary winter days where nothing seems to be going as [...]
We were sitting at a high school football game a few weeks ago when Kedron stood up and walked over to the fence behind the bleachers. He yelled at a group of middle school boys, “BREAK IT UP!! NOW!!!” The group looked at him shocked, and then looked around as if asking, “Who? Us?” Four [...]
But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15b My childhood home had a doorknocker with this verse from Joshua inscribed on it. I remember asking my parents when we moved into the home if they were going to keep the doorknocker or take it down. They replied that they’d [...]
** This is a book review and give away! I just thought I should make that clear before rumors started circulating the internets that I was pregnant or something! I’m thrilled to offer a copy of Marla Taviano‘s beautiful book Expecting: Praying for your child’s development – body and soul. From the back cover: Just [...]
T-Rex drew the name for the winner of the book Picking Dandelions by Sarah Cunningham, and the winner is Heather! I’ll be sending you an email! Thanks to all of you for participating. Pick up the book if you’re able – here it is on Amazon
Last week at the Festival of Faith & Writing, I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah Cunningham whose spiritual memoir Picking Dandelions:The search for Eden among life’s weeds was recently published by Zondervan. I had stumbled across Sarah’s blog a month ago and left a comment. We exchanged a couple e-mails, and I have her [...]
We’ve had a string of cold, rainy days – I know boo-hoo. The kids were going a bit crazy, so we pulled out our scissors and Kumon workbooks and started having fun. Suddenly, I had a stroke of motherhood genius and realized the pages that Little Miss was cutting apart from the Let’s Cut Paper [...]
Amelia lives in Michigan and has been married to her high school sweetheart Kedron for almost 14 years.
Amelia started pursuing her love of writing after she and her husband moved to Florida and she left her job in marketing to stay home with their firstborn. With family and friends a thousand miles away, she found blogging the daily stories of life to be a great way to stay in touch and recognize how God's story intersects with our daily stories.
The Rhodes recently moved back to Michigan where Amelia stays at home with their two young children, Little Miss Sunshine and T-Rex. She also is a contributor at Our Circle of Friends.
contact Amelia: supergirlamelia (at) gmail (dot) com