Girl Behind The Blog - Your Inner Foodie

I'm super excited about these two sweet friends joining forces for this month's girl behind the blog linkup.

I had the privilege and I totally mean privilege of meeting both Chelsea and Ashley at the Influence Conference last year. 

They are both just some of the sweetest girls you will ever meet. 

I had tons of fun hanging around both of them. 

photo credit: 5ohwifey

So they are doing a VLOG linkup about food this month. 

So anyway I won't spoil anymore except to go ahead and let you watch the video.

Be sure to head over to their blogs and check out some of the other videos.

This linkup is how I made some amazing friends in this blogging community.

The Girl Behind The Blog- Your Inner Foodie

Time limit: Vlogs should be 2-3 minutes long

Do you have a food philosophy? (gluten free, vegan, whole foods, whatever is easiest, kid friendly,etc)

If you could only have two foods for the rest of your life, what would they be?

Do you have a favorite food blogger or place for inspiration?

Share a favorite recipe or link with us!

Smitten Kitchen: Link to amazing cake I talked about.

Resurrection rolls recipe I plan on trying this weekend.

Love you guys! Be sure to check out some of the other videos! 

Such a great community on this linkup.

The Jumbled Suitcase Thoughts.

 This was packing for the Influence Conference almost a month ago.

I realise there are still more things to share from that impactful weekend.

So this is me grabbing coffee with you Saturday morning,  Praising God with you its the weekend.

Catching up on some final thoughts on the Influence conference.

Or more of a jumble of thoughts really.

I had a lot of thoughts about what to wear in the days leading up to the conference.

(As you can tell from the mess in the picture above)

I'm not sure why there was as much thought into my appearance as there was while packing.

Normally, I do take time to make sure I don't have food on my face before leaving the house and things.

But not usually quite so much attention to detail on my appearance.

I think honestly, I was terrified of what people were going to think of me before I went.

So I pulled together my five cutest outfits and packed those.

Still feeling insecure about myself.

So did the other two hundred girls I later found out from reading their posts.

Maybe there were a few who honestly didn't care.

About what others thought.

About what they looked like.

Our insecurities kept a lot of us from getting to know each other, as Kerrie wrote about HERE.

Until God met us that last night in a time of worship. Finally, I could see my sisters in the room.

Sisters in Christ. Where it didn't matter who had the most influence. We were all loved by God.

I echo Kerrie's thoughts on that evening.

The cute outfits were worn and thrown back in the suitcase by the end of the trip.
Forgotten about until it was time to do the laundry.
But the sweet friendships that were made.
The coffees shared among sweet friends.
Those remain, even today.
Blessed to call so many beautiful women, friend.

 These Happy Times // Taste and See 

Much Love,

L

Happy to be Home.

Thankful//to be home after the Influence Conference.

My heart is full and I can't wait to share with you guys all about the Conference.
Until I get a chance to start writing about it all....
enjoy some pictures.

More to come on this AMAZING company later. I so want to show you want they are doing to help vulnerable women! Its awesome! 

Meeting these two lovely ladies were two of the highlights of my entire trip.

Casey Wiegand//These Happy Times

 Then there was this time we were in Chicago hanging out. And had more Starbucks in one week than I usually have in a month.

TasteandSee//SweetnessItself//WhatSheSaw

More to come when I have settled at home and edited the pictures.

Much Love,

L

Influence Excitement

Countdown: 1 month & 1 day till Influence Conference

Well there are many reasons why I am looking forward to Influence.
I'm looking forward to the awesome sessions, seeing several of you lovely ladies in person
for the first time (anyone else find that weird, cause I totally feel I know you guys already?),
learning about how to blog with Christ at the center.
I feel a wonderful weekend of learning and sweet friendships on the horizon.

One of the reasons I'm so excited, is that I have awesome roomies lined up who I also happen

to be roadtripping to the conference with.

These three girls and I will be sharing a room.

So for sure, there will be many goofy moments awaiting us.

(SweetnessItself, What She Saw, Taste and See)

But just in case you wanted to see a project in the works
(I know we are so months behind when this was cool....but we don't live in the same place guys!!)
Enjoy these moments from when I stayed with one of these girls in the past.

Hopefully that got you laughing!
I'm sure there will be many more moments to share!

Much Love,
L

Sloth {Guest Post by Chelsea}

Hey Ladies, As my house and life are still a little chaotic....

I am leaving you with a couple of AMAZING guest posters this week.

Enjoy! And I will be back up and running this weekend hopefully.

Much Love,

L

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My students and I have been studying through Seven Daily Sins by Jared C Wilson in our Bible study. It has been quite a convicting and insightful journey!

One thing that really struck me was when we studied Sloth. 

No, not that sloth! Funny though, yes?
(if you haven't watched this video, watch it pronto and try not to laugh so hard you cry.)

Sloth is a sin that mirrors the inactivity of sloths.
Sloth is laziness to the point of apathy. 


As we studied this, I began really meditating on the difference between rest and sloth. Rest is good, refreshing and a commandment! Sloth is a practice that leads us away from our purpose. It's not just leaving the dishes in the sink for the next day. It's not just skipping your workout jog for a nap. Sloth is an attitude behind our actions that refuses to care about the work for which we're responsible.

Scripture warns against sloth over and over again. It's nearly impossible to flip through the Proverbs without coming across such a verse.


Proverbs 18:9
"A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things."

Proverbs 10:26

²⁶ "As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him."

Proverbs 15:19

¹⁹ "The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway."

It is apparent that God created us all with a specific purpose, to do specific work- to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, to demonstrate the love of the Father to those around us in whichever ways we are gifted. 

Colossians 3:23

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters."

Ephesians 2:10

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

As we embrace our purpose, putting God's desires for our lives above our own desires, we must remember the important of rest. Rest is not solely physical. While sleep is vital for our health, God desires that we spiritually rest in Him. Beyond the adequate eight hours of sleep per night (ha!) we have a deeper need for finding our rest, solace, peace in the Lord. 

Here are some practical ways that I remember to avoid sloth and embrace rest.

Avoid sloth:

- set a consistent schedule for waking and sleeping

- plan a daily time to spend alone with the Lord

- attitude check- think of chores or undesirable tasks as "working for the Lord"

- create a list of things to do for the day and carry over for the week as needed

Embrace Rest:

- set a consistent schedule for waking and sleeping

- plan a daily time to spend alone with the Lord

- Practice Sabbath- set aside one day a week not to do any work. Since my Sundays are pretty hectic I usually set aside Thursdays.

- Outside from regular quiet time practice meditation on the scripture, solitude, and attend at least one church service/small group that I am not teaching.

{You can read more from Chelsea over on here blog: Taste and See}

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Sponsor Spotlight: Taste and See, Along the Way with Rae & What She Saw

Hey Chicas,

Thought I would take another moment to introduce you to more of my lovely sponsors over here at All Glorious Within.

So far you've met Erin, then Julie.

Now I bring you 3 more beautiful ladies.....I asked them to share with y'all a little bit about their blogs and their favorite bible verses.

Be Encouraged! (I know I am continually by these ladies)

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Hey y'all! I'm Chelsea and I blog at Taste and See. 

Here you'll find updates from my adventures as a student minister, reflections on my faith, and lots of yummy recipes! You can check out some of my favorite posts here and here and some of my favorite recipes here and here.

One of my favorite scripture passages is Colossians 3. The whole chapter is just so good. Verse 17 in particular is one that I keep fresh in mind to focus my purpose on Jesus in everything I do.

"And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father."

Be sure to stop by and say hi! I'd love to get to know you better.

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My name is Rachel, and I blog over at Along The Way With Rae. 

My parents call me "Rae" all the time and I love that nickname, but no one else calls me that, so hence my use of "Rae" in my blog name :) I am a 20-something, college student, new to the blogging world. I've had my blog since February, and I must say that I LOVE BLOGGING and all of the wonderful bloggers out there.

 Blogging is my outlet. It's my way to express myself and get my thoughts out there. I am a Christian gal, and God is, and always will be at the center of my life and at the core of my blog. I love being encouraged by other Christian bloggers and wanted to do the same! 

You will also find the musings and randoms of my every day life and experiences, Pinterest finds, style inspiration, or anything else that may be on my mind or heart. Now come on over and say hi, I love meeting new people, and it would make my day if you were one of them! :) 

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

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Meet Annie from What She Saw.

i'm perpetuating my own brand of individuality by combining the act of classy with the act of gangster, because when you're from where i'm from, you can do that.

okay, not quite.

i'm a twenty-one-year-old college graduate who studied english lit and history, with an unnecessarily large vocabulary and an addiction to eschewing capital letters.

i love Jesus, reading & writing, and the color orange. i believe singleness is a gift even when it isn't easy, that faith is a journey, and that it isn't until i lose my life that i find it.

My favorite Bible verse is Hebrews 12:28-29:

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

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There you have it! 

Three beautiful ladies who you should definitely go and check out, and leave some comment love on their blogs. 

(Turned off here for that reason)

Tell them L sent you =)

Much Love,

L