(in)courage me

by Tsh on August 9, 2009

Photo from sxc.hu

If you hang out in the mommy blogosphere much, you may have noticed some talk this week about a wonderful new venture called (in)courage. Dayspring, the Christian division of Hallmark, has joined together more than 20 women’s voices in the blogosphere, united together to create a soft spot for gathering.

The vision is for a place like no other in cyberspace. The writing will be real, etched with the good and the hard of following Jesus. It’ll be a lot of fun. It’s been described by some of the writers as a beach house where you can kick up your feet with some coffee and girlfriends, as a well we’re digging together, and a safe house where non-flowery girls can gather.

I’m thrilled to be joining some of my favorite online writers, where we’ll regularly pick up our quills and write about “our girl-made mess and the God who redeems it.“ It’s a place of courage.

Photo graciously borrowed from Emily

This week, there’s been a chain of links, introducing you to each of the writers. So if you’re coming here from Lisa Leonard, then welcome to Simple Mom!

I’m the link that clasps this ring together, bringing you full circle to the first woman introduced, Sarah Mae from Like a Warm Cup of Coffee.

Sarah Mae started the 5:16 club, where women gather to deliberately rise early to “make the most of every opportunity.” Simple Mom readers would love her 31 Days to Clean series — I especially love her thoughts about feeling overwhelmed. And she’s a poet. It’s a great site. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe to her feed, and heck, go follow her on Twitter.

So get ready for August 10 — that’s tomorrow! (in)courage.me will go live, and you’re (in)couraged (I can’t stop) to jump right in and participate. I anticipate it being a place that’s allotted a portion of my very small blog reading time, and I hope it will be for you, too.

Here are all the (in)courage writers I’m joining:

Sara Mae at Like a Warm Cup of Coffee
Nester at Nesting Place
Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy
Kristen at We Are That Family
Jennifer at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
Jessica at The Mom Creative
Mary at Giving Up On Perfect
Angela at Becoming Me
Melissa at The Inspired Room
Jennifer at Studio JRU
Andrea at Under Grace & Over Coffee
Angie at Bring the Rain
Anne at Flowerdust
Ann at A Holy Experience
Amber at The Run-a-Muck
Emily at Chatting at the Sky
Ginny at The Thoughts I Think
Heather at Heather Gemmen Wilson
Robin at Pensieve
Sarah at The Best Days of My Life
Annie at Annie Blogs
Lisa at It’s the Little Things (yep, the fabulous jewelry maker Lisa I recommend above!)

I’ll see you over there. Are you (in)?

Written by Tsh Oxenreider

Tsh is the editor of this place, and is the founder of Simple Living Media, a little group with the mission to help people live simply. Her first book, Organized Simplicity, is in stores now. She's a mama to three little ones, likes her coffee black, and dislikes writing about herself in the third person.