Melanie Boutiette
New Beginnings
Are you in need of a new beginning? Maybe you want a change in your relationship, a career change, or a lifestyle change. Sometimes life...
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Melanie Boutiette
- Jan 7
- 3 min
New Year-Better Resolutions
Every New Year, I like many people, like to look back at the previous year, while looking ahead at the upcoming year. It’s good to...
Melanie Boutiette
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
A Different Christmas
This year, I was excited to celebrate the Christmas season and holiday with all its festivities. Especially now that our world had opened...
Melanie Boutiette
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
O Come Emmanuel
As we partake of the Christmas season and embrace all the beauty that this time holds, a favorite holiday tradition is singing the...
Melanie Boutiette
- Nov 12, 2022
- 2 min
Changing Seasons
As the fall season truly begins to unfurl her canopy of colors in the variety of trees, I’m once again in awe of God’s beauty displayed....
Melanie Boutiette
- Oct 1, 2022
- 3 min
Lessons From The Little Lambs
A number of years ago, we owned a pair of lambs we had purchased off a farmer when Nicole was just in kindergarten. These little babies...
Melanie Boutiette
- Aug 21, 2022
- 6 min
I've Fallen And I CAN Get Up
I should have been at the beach this past week on a long-awaited girls’ trip with my sister and her best friend. A sort of healing and...
Melanie Boutiette
- Jul 16, 2022
- 4 min
Resting In God
Rest. Over the years, and the older I’ve grown, that simple, little, word has taken on a whole new meaning. As a child, I hated taking...
Melanie Boutiette
- Jul 9, 2022
- 3 min
Freedom
I love the celebration of the 4th of July. This year we had an ongoing, evolving party and celebration throughout the day. First, a group...
Melanie Boutiette
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
Spring Cleaning
I’ve started spring cleaning. It’s easy to accumulate too much stuff. Before long, the possessions can overrun your home, or the clutter...
Melanie Boutiette
- May 21, 2022
- 3 min
Comforter
What is it about lying in bed wrapped up in a heavy quilt or layers of blankets that brings such comfort? Some people even purchase...
Melanie Boutiette
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
What's In A Name?
What’s in a name; what does it mean? Naming a child or person often denotes something of their identity, character, or nature. It’s...
Melanie Boutiette
- Apr 27, 2022
- 2 min
All Creation
All creation was made to worship You. It was made to declare Your majesty. The trees raise their branches like arms in glorious...
Melanie Boutiette
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Marks Of The Cross
Her voice seemed to quiver on the other end of the telephone as she stated, “I won't be able to join you and the rest of our friends for...
Melanie Boutiette
- Apr 9, 2022
- 4 min
Leave Every Negative Thought: L.E.N.T. Embrace JOY!
We’re just five weeks into LENT in preparation for passion week and everything our Savior would suffer for us to bring us life. Five...
Melanie Boutiette
- Mar 29, 2022
- 5 min
Costly Worship
Six days before Passover, Jesus gathered for a dinner with his disciples and others in Bethany. Lazarus, recently raised from death, was...
Melanie Boutiette
- Mar 16, 2022
- 3 min
A Season Of Lent
As we are in a season of Lent, I’m learning more about this time from the faith of others and especially my Catholic brothers and...
Melanie Boutiette
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
Trying Days And Lasting Peace
These are such sobering and trying days we find ourselves living in. Turn on the nightly news and it just seems like the world continues...
Melanie Boutiette
- Feb 16, 2022
- 3 min
I Am An Olympic Champion
What so few of you know about me is that I am a winter Olympian this year. I not only qualified, I made the team! Well, my own team that...
Melanie Boutiette
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
RESOLUTIONS
By now we’re already a month into the New Year. And most people have set new goals or have new resolutions to start the year differently...
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