December 2020 Lately List

Here’s a snapshot of helpful Bible resources, fun reading, easy recipes, videos to explore and more.

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Enjoy the December Lately List!

Dwelling on these Scriptures

Reading the Bible in a Year

For the past few months, my husband and I have been working through the YouVersion CCV: the Bible in ONE Year plan. Each day’s reading includes a passage from the Old Testament, a Psalm/Proverb (also from the OT), and a passage from the New Testament. Some day’s readings are a rather dense (6 chapters!), but it also has two day breaks built in. If you want to read the whole Bible in a year, I recommend it!

Abide Method: Philippians

After a couple AMAZING podcasts on Biblical literacy, I’ve decided to take a deeper dive into Scripture using the Abide Method (resource by Risen Motherhood).

This method involves a deep dive study into one book of the Bible using a few key principles:

  • Observation: What does the text say?
  • Interpretation: What does the text mean?
  • Application: How does the text change me?

I’m currently studying the book of Philippians.

Suggested Format: Google Docs

Note: The tool provided (above) encourages printing off the book you’re studying and marking it up.

That’s a great idea. I’m just cheap (and out of ink), so I’ve been using a Google doc instead.

The perks I’ve found of using a Google doc:

  • No printing = one less thing I might misplace (or my child will enthusiastically grab to scatter around the house)
  • Easy to read – no cramped handwriting
  • Digital comments – a handy tool for jotting down notes, recurring themes, definitions, and commentary notes (totally geeking out here!)

Re-reading this book multiple times and digging into definitions and commentaries has made the book even more interesting than before!

Bonus: Podcasts that Discuss Developing Biblical Literacy

The Five Minute Mom Podcast: Episode 215- Loving God’s Word Again with Tara-Leigh Cobble

Risen Motherhood Podcast: Ep. 178 || Don’t Take My Word for It with Jen Wilkin

Reading

As I’ve shared recently, independent play (IP) is a daily part of our life.

One of my absolute favorite parts of the day is reconnecting with Little Man after some IP, and seeing several books spread out in various states of read-ness.

It’s like he’s gearing up for a college exam by cross-comparing literature.

And, that, my dears, is one of the many reasons I find myself thinking, “You’re my child!”

Like Little Man, I enjoy reading multiple books simultaneously. Here’s the latest ones:

Fiction

Kingdom on Fire series by Jessica Clueess

A strong female lead, sorcerers, magicians, witches, fighting for a cause – it sucked me in! I lost a lot of sleep staying up too late reading this series…

Nonfiction

Hidden Potential by Wendy Pope

As the description puts it, “Fears. Faults. Failures. Frailties. Every woman at some point wonders, Do I have to get past all my weaknesses before God can use me? ” No verdict yet.

Watching

Lois and Clark: The Adventures of Superman

Every now and then I feel like retreating into childhood, so popping in these DVDs have been such a treat to have on in the background when I have time to myself.

The Mandalorian

Even a newbie Star Wars fan like me can get into his series! It gets bonus points for having a realistic kid-like Baby Yoda…

Bubble, Bubble Pop (baby-toddler appropriate)

I’m pretty sure that the 100+ views have mostly been from my toddler and I. He’s a huge fan of this less than 2 minutes video!

Making

Goals and Plans

Do you also get jazzed about the future?

I mean, thinking about the kind of person you want to be by the end of the following year is so DANG EXCITING.

I’ll share more about this soon, but in the meantime, I’ve been joining in on A Purpose Driven Mom’s goal-setting workshop series.

Cara incorporates reflection, vision boards, goal setting and routine establishing. So, so good!

Tasting

Since Little Man got his learning tower this summer, we’ve been making a lot of food together.

By this, I mean, he grabs handfuls of the mixed food to taste or toss on the ground.

We also yell together sometimes when the blender or food process is running.

Seriously, add a little happy yelling to your cooking. It’s good for the lungs.

Here’s some of our latest hits:

So far, he’s only dumped a batter bowl on the floor once – win!

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Wrapping up the December lately list and let’s chat!

I hope you enjoyed my December lately list.

What’s on your lately list? Anything you want to try out? Explore? Let’s talk in the comments!

P.S. Want some crazy simple steps to start living intentionally? Grab the Embrace Your Potential Playbook. It’ll help you zoom in on your God-gifted personality and give you practical tips to be more intentional, passionate, and purposeful as God’s beloved so you can become the best version of yourself.

Cortney is a Christian life coach and recovering over-achiever who is passionate about helping Christian women embrace who God created them to be so they can confidently step into any season of life with passion, purpose, and peace. She’s also an ENFJ, MBTI® coach, M. Ed in College Student Development, Pilates and Yoga teacher, wife, mama, and entrepreneur. In her pre-kid life, she coordinated programs for, coached, funded, and provided leadership training for more than 60+ student organizations and 100s of university students for 7+ years. (Helping people highlight their inner awesomeness and reach their goals is her jam!)

More importantly, she’s God’s beloved.

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