May-July 2024

Passion AND Purpose

One of the main purposes of a garden is to produce a crop. Sometimes, like with cherry tomatoes, your purpose is easily and abundantly achieved. Other times it takes a lot of work.

What if your passion – what you like to do… NO, what you loooove to do, was something you could do every day. If you’re reading this right now there’s a good likelihood that when you do what you love to do you can go “hardcore”.

Our readers are passionate about either fitness, travel, gardening or the outdoors. Often more than one.

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life we’re told is the ideal goal but can it be your reality? We don’t think so – We don’t think it should be.

Here’s why: All 4 of Lifestyle Media Group’s online magazines this summer want to help you live your passion AND purpose. It’s that “purpose” part that, as Jesus Christ himself found, takes passion to a level that let’s just says takes a lot of work for all of us. But WOW it’s worth it!

Click on the EcoPrint graphic below to download a printable PDF file of the magazine cover that you can distribute in your church and share with others.

In this issue

Learn, Do, Be – VIDEO
There are 3 key steps in gardening and many areas of life: learning, doing and then being - being the life of Christ to others.
Joy in the Unknown
Editor Kimberly Bloom says there's joy in the unknown while we contemplate summer plans and tend to our gardens.
Learn, Do, Be
Learn, do and be is the rhythm to life. To have a lifestyle with passion and purpose be in sync with God's rhythm.
Gardening With Children
Gardening as a family is more than planting seeds and growing food, you tend the wonder of God's goodness.
My Patio
Everyone can grow something beautiful. You don't need a full garden. See what we've done with pots on a patio.
Seasons of Now and Not Yet
In gardening, like our lives, there are seasons - some we'd like to skip. We can't always be in bloom but we can worship God.
Now And Not Yet – Ruth Chou Simons VIDEO
Ruth Chou Simons, of Gracelaced talks with Kimberly Bloom, about her book, Now And Not Yet.