Women crave connection, authenticity, and friends who make life brighter. Each week, I gather insights and rabbit trails to encourage and bring you joy!

I am glad you are here!

~ Lisa

  • Curated recommendations (books, podcasts, products, and rabbit trails)

  • Authentic, faith-filled inspiration you can actually use in real life

  • Scripture & worship picks for your heart and home

  • Resources that save you time, energy, bring you a smile

  • Simple joys & delightful discoveries

If it will make your life better,

you will find it in your inbox!

Welcome Joy To Your Inbox...

Natalie, Stephen, Lisa & Mackenzie Manning

Meet Lisa Manning

1) My top CliftonStrengths are Adaptability, Woo, Developer, Input, and Ideation.

Translation: I’m the friend who drops everything to be with you, brings random facts from one of the 600+ books I’ve bought, and invite strangers at the next table into the conversation because we all need new friends. We will find adventure, solve all the things, and have fun doing it. :)

2) Superpower: I’m a human therMOMeter. I can touch my family's foreheads and tell their temperature within a few tenths of a degree.

3) We don’t refrigerate ketchup or mustard. Everyone is alive. No food poisoning. You’re welcome.

4) I’m both a night owl (1 a.m. bedtime, anyone?) and a morning person (cue the Good Morning Song). Afternoons are… questionable.

5) I’m a recovering OCD housekeeper. Towels used to be folded the same way and color-coordinated. Now we are lucky to find towels in the closet instead of the laundry room.

6) One accessory I never leave home without: earrings.

7) We strongly believe in the saying “People who don’t like musicals because people don’t randomly break into song have never been to our house.”

8) If I could have a fictional best friend, it would be Atticus Finch.

9) I’m an ENFP—an imaginative motivator: enthusiastic, creative, free-spirited, and always able to find a reason to smile. Nailed it.