Blue Sky Daisies

10/10/2025

"Pleasure reading is an individual sport, but talking about books is a team event. It connects us to others."
-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood

08/19/2025

Would some free planning sheets be helpful as you get started this year? The planning sheets that you see in Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love are available as a FREE PDF download so you can easily print as many as you want and get to work planning your own Morning Time!

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04/15/2025

Would some free planning sheets be helpful as you finish up this year & look to next year? The planning sheets that you see in Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love are available as a FREE PDF download so you can easily print as many as you want and get to work planning your own Morning Time!

🔹 Visit www.blueskydaisies.net/ebooks-printables to get yours!

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04/14/2025

“It is time to wake up and meet the creation. It was made just for you.”
-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood

Have you been able to read Beyond Mere Motherhood yet? Would love to hear your thoughts!

03/31/2025

Have you tried Morning Time yet? I hope this post answers some of your questions.

For those experienced in Morning Time, do you have any encouragement for those who are just discovering it?

I'd love to hear your thoughts/questions!

03/08/2025

The Sacred Sacrifice is a great way to spend the weeks to prepare for Easter. It is not too late to get started. Available on Kindle.

03/03/2025

Did you know Lent begins this week?!

Whether you’re one of the first to use The Sacred Sacrifice by Hannah Paris to cultivate a Lenten tradition with St. Matthew Passion or you’re using your own family Lenten tradition, this is a lovely reminder from Hannah from The New Mason Jar Podcast, Episode 75!

“I do think it is important to make sure it stays in its place…you’re not just listening to St. Matthew Passion and doing this with your kids because we’re checking off for Lent, it’s about readying your heart for Easter Sunday!”

To enjoy The Sacred Sacrifice, check out the Blue Sky Daisies website: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/the-sacred-sacrifice/

02/28/2025

Congratulations, Jenny Bradley - Writer !

Excited to announce that my book, "Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Kids on Stage," hit the Top 100 in Children's Theater Books on Amazon! Thank you so much for helping me hit this goal! If you've purchased, will you leave me a review on Amazon? And, if you haven't purchased yet, buy on Amazon today, and help me hit the TOP 75!

02/28/2025

Readers love Hannah Paris's book, The Sacred Sacrifice: Cultivating Lenten Traditions with Bach's Great Passion.
Check out the other reviews on Amazon, and order your copy: https://amzn.to/4i6kaDU

Ash Wednesday is next week. Prepare your hearts for Resurrection Sunday along with Hannah Paris as you day-by-day listen to portions of St. Matthew Passion, read verses from Matthew 26, and meditate on the sacred sacrifice of Christ on behalf of His people.

02/26/2025

In The Sacred Sacrifice: Cultivating Lenten Traditions with Bach’s Great Passion, Hannah Paris leads us into establishing a beautiful Lenten tradition for families of listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. She makes it easy for you to journey through Lent with Bach, on your own or with your family.

Make Lent memorable for your family with:
🟡 Daily listening schedule for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, including the German and parallel English libretto
🟡 Occasional poems and other readings
🟡 Suggested activities for observing Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Saturday, and others
🟡 Recipes for Shrove Tuesday and Easter

The official companion book to Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah by Cindy Rollins, The Sacred Sacrifice helps families integrate Bach’s masterpiece oratorio St. Matthew Passion, which musically tells the narrative of chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew, into their Lenten observance.

Visit our website to see sample pages: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/the-sacred-sacrifice/
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02/24/2025

Why did Bach write St. Matthew Passion? Why is it considered to be so brilliant? Hannah Paris explains why St. Matthew Passion is such a big deal--but more importantly why it can be such a tremendous blessing to you and your family during the Lenten season. Find out more at our website: https://blueskydaisies.net/books/the-sacred-sacrifice/

Order your copy of The Sacred Sacrifice: https://amzn.to/4i8EqVy

02/23/2025

Consider walking through the season of Lent with Bach's moving oratorio, St. Matthew Passion.
"Lent begins on Ash Wednesday with the collective remembrance of our temporal existence and need for repentance and ends on Holy Saturday just before Easter Sunday. Woven into Lent is Holy Week (also called Passion week) and the Paschal Triduum. Throughout the weeks of Lent, Sundays are breaks in the fast that give us periodic glimpses of the feasting to come during Eastertide. It’s a constant reminder that we live in the not-yet-but-already-here of Christ’s kingdom."
From Hannah Paris's book The Sacred Sacrifice: Cultivating Lenten Traditions with Bach's Great Passion.