“It is not everyday that I get to make a new friend.” Fawn to Lucy, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
Hello new friend. My name is Stacey. I’m so glad you are here. I’ve been thinking about you and praying for you. I know God has you here for a reason. He has me here, too.
If we were sitting across the table from each other, we’d be drinking coffee and eating something way too sweet. I’d say, “Oh I love your shoes!” You might ask, “Where are you from?” I’d tell you about growing up in the smallest of towns in Indiana and we’d find something in common and we would laugh together.
And then it would happen. The thing I love about women would take place. We would connect. We would encourage. We would share. Our time together would end way too soon and we’d promise to do it again soon. You’d leave a part of your story with me. I’d send some of mine with you. On the ride home I would replay every little detail of our meeting. I would smile.
What a grand thought, you and me together over coffee! But you know, our reality is a bit different. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day for chatting over coffee and the women who make me smile. I’m a mama to four very sweet girls. They keep me pretty busy lately. Breaks are rare and cherished when they come.
So what do we have, you and me? We have this place – a gathering of sisters. We have Jesus, and I believe He can knit hearts together over coffee, through Twitter, or during a Freshman dorm Bible Study on a Big Ten Campus. See, He knows our hearts and He delights in bringing new friends in our lives in many different ways.
My heart and passion is to meet you here once each month and talk about the stuff of life that we love. It will be fun to see how Jesus takes His holy thread and makes us sisters. You can be sure that I’ll be here. Will you join me? It is not every day you meet a new friend. I’d love if you’d be mine. And please, say hello in the comments so I can see your sweet smile?
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Hi Stacey,
So glad to be here too! I am looking forward to all the wonderful posts that will come through my email. Have a beautiful day
Janet thanks for being the first to say hi! You just made my day!!
Praying your day is filled with all the things you love!
Hi Stacey! Love your post!
Good morning, ladies! What an excellent way to start my day…so glad to be part of something I know is so special
Hi Stacey! I’ve been following your blog for quite some time and it’s so fun to now follow you here as well.
. I am looking forward to meeting here and gleaning from other women…..
God bless…….
Hey there Patty! How fun to see you here at Sisters! May God bless you girl!
Hey Stacey!
Popping in to this sweet place the Lord led Denise to launch. So cool to see how He works and what He produces, especially in the connecting of women!
Blessings,
Lisa
We are so glad to have you here Lisa! You of all people know about encouraging women. : )
I am so excited about this site…great things will happen due to the willingness of all of you to follow His lead.
Were you at Relevant last October? I think I sat at a meal with you and you found out that were friends with the younger sister of another person at the table…was that you?
Hugs~
Mary
Mary hey there! I was at Relevant – but I can’t recall if that was me or not. Hmmm…I could blame it on my cold medicine from last night!
But even so – we are sisters twice blessed to have shared that weekend and this fun new place which really grew out of that time!
Have an amzing day!
See – the cold medicine is making me crazy!
Amazing. Have an Amazing Day!
Hi new friend! Looking forward to knitting our hearts together over this site and many other things!
What a great way to start out the site!
Blessings,
Christina
Hi Stacy, I’m Bree and it’s a joy to meet you! I’m really looking forward to everything this site has to offer and I’m excited to make new friends here. Have a beautiful blessed day today.
Hi Bree! Are you having a great Thursday? Mine is off and running!
stacey – i love your heart more than words can express, you’re an encourager like no other i’ve known … i look forward to all you have to share here at sisters!
You are one of a kind sweet Tracie!
You are a sweet friend! Enjoyed reading this this morning!
Hi friend! Thanks for stopping by today – I love how God has brought us together!
Hi Stacey,
So excited to be here at this gathering of sisters where we can share and encourage each other. Blessings to you today.
You are an encourager of women. Both online AND in person. Thankful for you, and your presence in my life!
I loved hearing your voice yesterday girl! Praying for you right now!
You shared God’s heart for women connecting in a beautiful way. I am thrilled to get to connect with you!
Oh, and thanks about my shoes! ;o) I love them too!
Well a girl needs to love her shoes…they take her to the most amazing places!
Blessings Kristin!
Stacy,
Thanks for the wonderful welcome. I too grew up in the smallest of small towns (in Kentucky) I’m so excited about this website, and getting to know everyone. God bless you ladies!
Good Morning! I am looking forward to our time together.
Stacey, loved your post. You already know how much I love you and your blog. Looking forward to reading Sisters in Bloom!
To my sweet Sister Stacey! Wonderful words to wake up to! Your welcome makes me feel like we are all in the same gathering place- together. Where it all begins.. Sisterhood!
We can comment too, right?
Hey Stacy, Martha here!
I am so excited to dig into a new blog!!! Yesterday I saw a post from Comfy in the Kitchen about this new blog and just had to check it out! Just a few months ago the Lord lead me to Women Living Well and I am so thankful he did that! I am so excited to see what all of you wonderful ladies have to say and open my heart to let you all minister to me everyday! I have downloaded the e-book and will be getting into that soon I hope! Thanks for being you and nice to meet you!
you wrote it, and i see it. and i love your shoes!
AMEN Stacy! Well said!
WOW Stacey, what a great post!!!!! I would love to sit and have coffee and get to know you. I have read some of your things through following Tracie Johnson’s links to you and have loved them… and then I see you also know Judy Douglass~~what a small world….. I have just recently “met” Tracie, yet there is a long connection in our stories, and I was with CCC with Judy for 20+ years. So if these are 2 of your friends, you must be wonderful!!!
I look forward to hearing more of your heart.
be blessed today,
Carolyn
Oh Erin that is the best! I love that she invited you….and gave you a place to share your heart!
Love. Love. Love it!
Carolyn how nice to meet you! I can’t believe we haven’t met already? Sounds like we have already have more than one connection. How neat is that to find someone in this online world who can say “Oh, you too?”
See, God has already been at work weaving our stories together!
I look forward to getting to know you too!
Hi Stacey! I’ve hardly been online at all this week, but I just had to pop over here today. What a wonderful, beautiful post you wrote! And you’re right–it’s amazing what God does in the hearts of women. Aren’t we all blessed to be part of this amazing sisterhood? SiB founder, editors, contributors, readers–God will knit all our hearts together in ways that only He can imagine.
This post is a perfect reflection of how you are in real life. I wish we lived closer so those chats with coffee could happen. Thank you for all your encouragement to me and to other women. You are a sweetheart.
I’m so looking forward to coming here and visiting each day for inspiration and encouragement. Thank you to Denise and all the others for following your heart and the Lord’s leading. May you be blessed richly as I know we will.
Thank you Suzanne, we are thrilled to have you here as well, and pray God’s blessings on this endeavor.
Good morning, I am so happy to be a part of this group. The message today warmed my heart! Where did you grow up in Indiana, we are in Carmel.
I grew up in North Vernon! Love Carmel and have dear friends there! I’ll bet you are having fun this week with all the attention on Indy!
So excited about this site. I grew up in and am living in the smallest of small towns in Indiana. Love how God makes connections!
See – we already have something in common! Being from a small town is stamped on my heart forever! So nice to meet you Lissa!
Hi Stacey! I am so excited to “meet” you and your words were a blessing to my day!
Hello, I am glad to found have this site and to be part of it from the beginning. With where I live and work, I have found myself isolated with no friends that I talk with regulary. I have prayed for a way to make some new connections/friendships and felt lead to say hello. Thank you for this.
So glad you are here Sandra and really glad you said hello – waving back!
So nice to meet you Stacey. I’ll look forward to connecting with you each month.
Hello Stacey
What a lovely, warm welcome! You seem like a very sweet person. I look forward to reading more and getting to know you. Thank you for sharing your heart!
Hi
. I’m Miranda and if we were having coffee I would probably tell you about my love for chocolate, Jesus and hockey 
.
Hi
I am drinking my pumpkin spice coffee….can you hand me a brownie! lol Weather is wonderful here in SE Missouri!
Kristy that is so funny because I actually bought 2 brownie mixes today at the store!
I will bake some up tomorrow! Wish you were here to share!
Hey Stace… love the post… I also love the connection us women thrive on with new and old friends. Love ya! Judy
Judy don’t you know I am counting the days till Chicago when we can drink coffee, eat (of course) laugh hysterically and build more memories! I was just thinking the other day about your cab ride in Cancun…..
love you dear dear friend who knows my stories!
You’re such a doll! What a sweet welcome, Stacey! I’m so thrilled to minister alongside you and the other amazing women here.
I’m pumped about meeting sisters in Christ all over the place through this amazing site! He has wonderful plans for ALL of us.
I will join you! Love the site!
Hi Stacey,
looking forward to connecting with others whose hearts share something in common ~ Our Saviour, Jesus Christ. I’ve shared the Sisters in Bloom button on my blog. So excited about this new friendship gained.
Thank you Karen for sharing our site by putting up our button – so kind of you.
Hi, Stacey,
Your post was so relevant to my experience today. A friend from church saw me in the hall of my sons’ preschool and asked how I was doing. Before I could respond, she invited me to join her for coffee (or Diet Pepsi, in my case) and we just talked and talked and talked, sharing the deepest of secrets, knowing that they would be kept in confidence, and creating a bond which now cannot be broken. I’m so glad to meet you and look forward to reading your posts and sharing our love of the Lord together.
Blessings,
Erin
So happy to see this encouraging post in my email today. Love the red shoes. I’m looking forward to seeing what God has in store for this site as we all connect through His love.
Why, hello!
And those shoes? Awesome.
Why thank you ….Payless, BOGO
The past two days have been full of such warm welcomes from everyone that really makes me feel like I am at a meeting place with the girls to have coffee and fellowship as sister!
“Hi!” and Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Hi Stacey,
What a lovely welcoming post! I’m Lyn and I live way up north in Canada! I’m really looking forward to seeing what God unpacks through Sisters in Bloom. I love your shoes!
ooooooooooooooh, and I DO LOVE those shoes! You are beautiful inside and out !!! <3 Thank you for walking in the Spirit, and being open to share and learn from other women!
Love,
Traci
Hi Stacey, so nice to “meet and connect” with you here. I’m very excited about Sisters In Bloom. My name is Rosann and my blog is ChristianSuperMom. I’m just a regular gal on a journey to glorify God as I navigate the sometimes choppy waters of motherhood. I’m also a newly published {okay…self-published} author of the book UnEMPLOYED Faith, which was a book I felt God really pushing me to write. It’s a book about my and my husband’s 3yr journey of recession related unemployment and all the emotional struggles that went with it. I also share the many ways I coped with those emotions so other women who are experiencing the same frustrations in their home can be encouraged and find fruitful ways to overcome the sometimes destructive feelings. Of course, our story ended in God’s blessings as my hubby was hired only days after my book publishing and we just celebrated our 10yr wedding anniversary. This kind of community is exactly the place I want to hang out for regular inspiration and encouragement.
Looking forward to getting to know you more!
Blessings,
~Rosann
Rosann thanks for sharing part of your story today! God is faithful!
Blessings!
Hello,I am so glad i came across this site.Blessings to you all
you are such a blessing! love your sweet spirit! can’t wait to met you in person, either on this side of heaven or the other! As I was reading this i was sipping on French Vanilla coffee made with love from my keurig. getting ready to make cookies for tmr..you are welcome to come join in on the cookie playdate fun at 10:00 we will be having 12 little ones from ages 9-2!
Would love to share Jesus and study the Bible over coffee with you Stacey! Your post here made me feel like we’re already friends.
In Christ,
Laura
I very much enjoyed reading your post. I was lead to this site through pinterst. I do not think that was by accident. God works in his own way.
Stacey, You are such a gift! I always feel inspired by your words and appreciated by your caring ways. Today, I pray:
Dear Lord, Thank you for Stacey. May she always feel loved as she has poured her heart and love out so generously for others. Wrap your arms around her Lord and keep her close, that your gentle providence in her life would be a sweet road map for her to follow. Bless the work that she does in the lives of women everywhere- that her infectious encouragement and joy would shine through it. May she always know that she is a gorgeous soul, radiant for you Lord…. Amen.
Thank you sweet girl!
Hi Stacy
Your posts are such a wonderful encouragement. Thank you for making me feel a bit less alone today.
Kt