Holidays Archives

A happy family around the dinner table during the holiday season.

Holiday Gatherings: How to Reduce Family Stress

If you’re worried about seeing a friend or relative this holiday season, follow these tips to reduce stress and help ease the tension.

Peggy's pooches are all dressed up for the holidays

Celebrate the Holidays with Your Pets

By Peggy Frezon4 min read

Peggy Frezon shares how pet parents across the U.S. include their furry, finned and feathered family members in their holiday traditions.

Adding in a Little Goodness This Lent

By Diana Aydin2 min read

Lent doesn’t have to be only about sacrifice. It can be about giving as well.

A wicker basket with poinsettias and holiday red ribbon. Photo credit: Unsplash

The Christmas Gift That Kept on Giving

By Connie Casares2 min read

Someone needed that Christmas basket more than me. Give, and you shall receive.

3 Ways to Celebrate Palm Sunday

By Rick Hamlin3 min read

Guideposts blogger Rick Hamlin offers 3 ways to celebrate the ambivalence but spiritual richness of Palm Sunday.

Guideposts: An inspiring prayer for Lent

7 Lenten Prayers to Strengthen Your Faith

By Brett Leveridge1 min read

We offer these prayers to inspire you along what Guideposts executive editor Rick Hamlin has described as “your own Lenten journey of prayer through the wilderness of this world, leading to the glorious message of new life.” May they deepen your connection to Him in this holy season.

A glowing Christmas tree in a snow-covered opening of a forest with Christmas quotes

20 Inspiring Christmas Quotes

By Brett Leveridge1 min read

May these Christmas quotes from Dolly Parton, Charles M. Schulz, Maya Angelou and others bring you joy.

Trisha Yearwood with husband Garth Brooks

Trisha Yearwood’s First Holiday Meal with Garth Brooks’ Family

By Trisha Yearwood7 min read

Her first Thanksgiving away from home, the country star discovered that gratitude and tradition can travel far.

Guideposts Classics: Buddy Ebsen on Prayer on New Year’s Eve

By Buddy Ebsen5 min read

In this story from January 1984, Buddy Ebsen, beloved star of television, movies and theatre, recalls a New Year’s Eve that changed his outlook on life.