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The Friday Five: A Few Favorite Finds

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Happy New Year Friends!

I hope each of you enjoyed a wonderful holiday season and I pray that your new year has started off full of God’s grace, love and joy. I had the opportunity to bask in several days away from work and I thoroughly enjoyed the time of leisure.

Welcome to the first edition of The Friday Five of 2014! It’s a new year but the mission remains the same—to shine the spotlight on a few good reads I have come across during my blog reading. So without further ado, this week’s blog love goes to the following:

Eight things you can live without by Lindsay at Medium

5 Things You Can Do in Response to the Decrease in Facebook’s Organic Reach at Andrea Vahl

Letter to God at Will Your Hear From Me

Rewriting Resolutions & Choosing One Word by Mary at (in)courage

THE POST-CHRISTMAS BLAHS at Sharon Sharing God

Want to join me in sharing your favorite reads or writes this week? Link up your posts below to join The Friday Five Fellowship.

Comments

  1. Sharon says

    Thanks, Wanda, for the recognition this week! I appreciate it.

    We had a quiet New Year’s Day, and I can hardly believe that it is already 2014!! It’s seems like it was just yesterday that everyone was freaking out about Y2K (remember that??)

    This next week I’ll be posting about the *word* that God has given me for this coming year. It surprised me, and I’m just wondering what God’s up to! Working this word into my life and my heart is going to be an adventure!

    Happiest New Year!

    And GOD BLESS!

    • Wanda says

      Yes, I do remember when everyone was so sure that it was cause major outages. Thanks for that laugh Sharon. I look forward to seeing what your word choice will be for the year. I’ve seen some interesting picks thus far. I think one of my favorites is Jennifer’s. Hers is anyway.

  2. Nikki (Sarah) says

    HI Wanda…want to wish you an amazing year in 2014. It’s going to be a good one and when the rush of the holidays are over and kids are back to school…I’m going to pop by and starting linking with you. I think you got an awesome blog here. Hugs and happy new year.

    • Wanda says

      Hi Nikki, happy new year to you my dear. You’re welcome to come and visit whenever you have time. Always a pleasure to have. I understand life is busy. Have a great weekend.

  5. Beth says

    I loved Sharon’s post too! Gonna go check out the others. Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve visited. Happy New Year, friend!

  6. Tracy says

    HI Wanda, this is such a great tool to spread the word and joy of the Lord. Look forward to what you have for us next week.
    God bless
    Tracy

  7. Joanne Viola says

    Happy New Year, Wanda! So glad to see you back!! I am going to grab some coffee & spend some time reading the links you shared. I am so happy as every single one will be new to me!
    Blessings,
    Joanne

  8. Pam says

    Wanda, could you explain “organic reach”? How will Facebook’s new policies affect my Facebook author page? Thanks, my friend. I know you understand these things far better than I do.

    • Wanda says

      I’m by no means an expert on the topic but the best way I know to describe is as the opposite of paid advertising. Whereas before everyone that like your page was seeing your content less and less people are actually seeing that information being displayed in their FB news feed. I think the great take away is to use your own site has the central hub and to focus on building email lists since those are places in which you are in control.

      • Pam says

        Thank you, Wanda! That clears things up some. And I am okay with that. By combining them it is one less “page” I need to manage.