Writer | Speaker | Editor
Welcome, y’all. I’m so glad you stopped by.
If we’re just meeting, let me introduce myself.
I’m Peggy Wilson Lawrence. Right off the bat, you should know that I’m a believer, an inspirer, and a restorer, a glass-half-full kind of gal.
I love many things:
Words … Written, spoken, read, sung, prayed, and studied — especially God’s words of Biblical wisdom.
Numbers and ideas … Equally analytical and creative, I like to figure things out, but I’m a threat to get a vision.
Interior and exterior design … Both are in my DNA. In home and garden, my style is casual elegance, my bent is toward traditional and historic, my crush is on antiques patinated with the past and repurposed for the present.
Nature’s beauty and color … The blues of water, sky, and hydrangeas, the greens of fluffy conifers and stately boxwood, the reds of a Tennessee winter sunrise.
Porches … The best place to be still and know, to discover and disclose, to rejoice and mourn, to retreat from the world then launch myself back into it.
Flowers … Growing in the garden or arranged in vessels, they cheer me. You might catch me talking to them.
Books … Can’t live without ’em.
Handwritten notes … My favorite way to reach a person’s heart, for it best reveals what they mean to mine.
Pickup trucks … “A girl’s gotta have a truck.” It’s one of my mottos.
Hospitality … To set an inviting table (never the same way twice), to try new recipes on the unsuspecting, and to bring personalities together — it’s an irresistible risk worth taking.
Piano … My escape with Jesus.
The South … You figured that out when I said hello. Everyone has a geography, and this one is mine. I won’t trade it, but I will share it.
RESTORING LIFE’S CHARMS
Of all the things I love, charm tops the list. It is characteristic of everything I mentioned above, even my pickup truck. How so? Charm is a compelling attraction. It can’t be defined concretely, but it’s sensed and felt with certainty. It is a harmony of beauty, utility, color, shape, scale, dimension, character, poise, humility, integrity, goodness, and promise. Charm is an expression of grace. It’s home for the soul.
Charm is not an end in itself but points us to the Creator. He made the world and everyone in it to reflect His glory and compelling attractiveness. His plan was interrupted by Eden’s fall, but God is faithfully redeeming His earth and the matchless worth of His people through His grace and love.
Join me on my quest to grow in His purpose, advance His kingdom, and restore life’s charms.
His highest and best to you,