Declutter with Kathi and Discover 10 Books for Children This Christmas

by Clutter Free Academy Team | Dec 10, 2021 | Blog, Books, Clutter Free, Clutter Free Home, Hard Stuff, Overwhelmed | 0 comments

Decluttering with Kathi and Discover

10 Books for Kids This Christmas

Is too many books really a thing?

From time to time it’s necessary to declutter even our beloved books, and deciding which ones to keep is hard! This week on Declutter with Kathi, my friend Kathleen Kerr will help us in the area of children’s books. She will share her list of 10 Books to Buy for Kids at Christmas, and you will not want to miss it!

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Nope, by Drew Sheneman

Saturday, by Oge Mora

Nobody Likes a Goblin, by Ben Hatke

See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog, by David LaRochelle

I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, by Chris Harris

The Secret of Platform 13, by Eva Ibbotson

Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin

Dragon Hoops, by Gene Yang

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, by Jeanne Birdsall

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Meet The Guest

Kathleen Kerr

Kathleen Kerr is an acquisitions editor at Harvest House Publishers. Previously, she acquired books for tweens at Zondervan Publishing House. She has also worked at an independent children’s bookstore, where she learned there are few greater joys than introducing kids to the books that will shape their own stories.

This is your invitation…

…to quiet your heart and mind

…to focus on God and His Word

…to create a spacious place for yourself

…to refresh your soul

…to experience greater peace and joy

Each devotion includes spiritual insight from authors Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory, helpful prompts that encourage reflection and growth, and room for you to write down what God is teaching you.

Let each of these devotional mini-retreats provide a momentary refuge from your busy world and take you to a more abundant place.

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490 How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life with Author Nicki Koziarz – Flooded

by Clutter Free Academy Team | Dec 7, 2021 | Clutter Free, Clutter Free For Life, Hard Stuff, Podcast | 11 comments

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490: How to Make the Hard Decisions in Life

with Author Nicki Koziarz

Flooded

Kathi is here with long awaited guest: three time best selling author, Nicki Koziarz to talk about how to make challenging decisions. So much of the clutter in our lives is caused by avoiding decision. As the clutter continues to build, we are flooded with choices, and that can leave us feeling overwhelmed. Even though many of the decisions we are faced with on a daily basis are small decisions, they can seem very daunting causing us to continue to avoid them. Listen in as Kathi and Nicki give us some hard truths that can help us develop our decision muscle, including:

None of us are exempt from hard things
How to deal with the emotion attached to the clutter
How to make hard decisions when it seems contrary to what’s expected

Flooded: The 5 Best Decisions to Make When Life is Hard and Doubt is Rising

Through the painful loss of her mom to a brain tumor and her brother to suicide, Nicki Koziarz has learned that if doubt is left undealt with, it can cause the presence of unbelief to flood our lives, to the point that faith becomes unrecognizable. Hard circumstances often stir something so destructive in a soul: doubt. In the midst of her pain, Nicki looked through the lens of the biblical account of Noah and discovered five decisions a person can make to help deflect the destruction of doubt.

When you are wrestling with doubt and fighting back hopelessness, Flooded will help you:

Quiet the fear that God won’t come through by discovering the difference between wishful thinking and biblical hope.
Resist the urge to control the uncontrollable by finding peace in between the problem and the promise.
Find the familiar faithfulness of God in His Word when it feels like nothing is normal and everything is falling apart.

The reality of hard times holds a decision for each of us to find hope. And the decision to find it is yours. But you don’t have to do it alone. It’s time to rise above doubt, together.