Bella Tea Room

12/29/2025

On the 5th day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me...
5 Golden Rings



Five Golden Rings ♡♡♡♡♡

Time Well Spent:

Time stops when we gather together with loved ones especially around tables...

♡ Joy
♡ Love
♡ Peace
♡ Hope
♡ Grace

My devotion in Savor for today is themed:
WHERE TIME STOPS (Job 34:3-4)
"Sit down at the table and offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, how much we accomplish, how much life we can pack into one day. But it is the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies.... The table is where time stops. It's where we look people in the eye, where we tell the truth about how hard it is, where we make space to listen to the whole story not the textable sound bite." ~ Shauna Niequist

The table is so where my heart is! Whether it is at a park outdoors, or a local coffee shop, at a friend's home or that of my own, at the table is where relationships blossom and thrive. As we head into a new year, let's be sure to make the time in gathering around tables with those dear in our lives. ♡♡♡♡♡

12/28/2025

On the Fourth Day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me.... Four Calling Birds.

In reflection of this gift, my heart was drawn to my own 4 calling birds in the course of my lifetime. Many interpretations of the beloved Christmas Carol liken the 4 calling birds to the 4 Gospels. I'm not sure how much is legend or truth, yet I have witnessed the Gospel greatly lived out in my own 4 calling birds. And for them I am humbly thankful. ❤

My Faith
My Husband
My Children
My Sisterhood

Can you think of 4 calling birds (events or people) that have significantly made an impact in your own lifetime?

12/27/2025

Join me for teatime...
What are you drinking?



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12/27/2025

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
3 French hens of faith, hope & love. 🐔🐔🐔

12/26/2025

~ Foxy Friday ~ 💛🦊💛
"Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their image on men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer." ~ Blaise Pascal

12/26/2025

Happy Day after Christmas ....

12/26/2025

Good Morning! 💛☕️💛
"A little faith will bring your soul to heaven..
A great faith will bring heaven to your soul.."
-Charles Spurgeon

12/25/2025

I pray for you to have a Merry Christmas & Blessed Holiday. I cannot stress this enough, LOVE your tribe and go the extra mile always. Time for many is shorter than we know. Live, laugh and love with no regrets.
xxooxx ~ Ginger

12/24/2025

Good Christmas Eve Morning! 💛☕️💛

Be the Light 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
As you have the light, believe in the light. Then the light will be within you, and shining through your lives. You'll be children of light. (John 12:36)

12/23/2025

12/23/2025

Good Morning! 💛☕️💛

Where are you, Christmas?
Why can't I find you?

I feel this. This sentiment in the Grinch movie resonates with me this past year like no other. My husband became chronically ill and we lost our firstborn son unexpectedly. Now its Christmas and everything reminds me of them both...how precious the holidays were when we were all together.

There is a popular quote from Dr. Seuss’s story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, that says, “It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes or bags! Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. ‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.’”

That 'something more' burns in my heart? My son loved Christmas. He would want us to celebrate in his absence. Its been a hard year yet it is filled with goodness and light. Our grandson was born in June and he and his older brother are our joy. We are blessed in the love of family and friends who have faithfully rallied around us. I believe I've seen the fruits of Christmas: hope, peace, joy, and love on a much deeper level in my losses.
I am noticing more as I choose to look up with my mournful questioning.

Maybe you also are having such a season when the the rest of the world seems merry and bright? Sadness doesn't disappear at Christmas yet Someone left the light on to know we are loved. Maybe Christmas is indeed something a bit more..

~ xxooxxoo Ginger