Blessed Is She 2025 Gift Guide!

We are so BLESSED to be featured in Blessed Is She's 2025 Christmas gift guide. You can check it out here: https://blessedisshe.net/blogs/blog/purposeful-presents-2025-bis-christmas-gift-guide#art

As a small Catholic art & gift shop that is just (officially) starting out, this is such a God wink for us! How this all came about was such a gift to us! I want to share the story as an encouragement and testimony of God's faithfulness. 

First off - I'm someone who believes that God speaks to us in EVERYTHING. I believe that He is constantly speaking to us through the little moments of our reality (which is probably evident by now considering we named our store Habitavit... and He dwelt among us). Don't think I'm too crazy here but that also applies to dreams for me. Of course as the Bible tells us, dreams must be discerned to know if they are from God, the enemy, or just your own mind... and even then, it's best to surrender them and ask God to show you the true meaning in His time if it's necessary for your holiness.

Anyway, I had several dreams where I discerned that God was asking me to surrender Instagram to Him. The morning after the first dream, we went to mass and the homily was about how you cannot serve both God and mammon. Our wonderful priest shared a line that went something along the lines of, "You cannot have one foot in the church and another in the world where you just tip your hat to the Lord and hope for the best." It hit me instantly that it was a confirmation from God to surrender Instagram. 

I had just redownloaded the app, had just gotten caught up in the excitement of it when the Lord asked this of me. I could taste all the creative posts I was about to make and yet I couldn't deny that every time I got on my Instagram, my peace evaporated. It sucked me in and I wasted loads of time scrolling. Even after almost 2 years with a flip phone, the attachment remains.

So on that Saturday morning after mass, I surrendered my Instagram reluctantly. I told Phil he'd have to be the one to operate it if we wanted to use it for our business because it wasn't going to be good for my soul. I tried to make every excuse for why I could still run the account, but knew in my heart I had to let it go. It was the smallest opening, but the Lord cracked it open wide and used it.

The VERY NEXT DAY, I brought my sick grandmother Holy Communion and decided to leave my husband and kids to hang out with our friends after mass. On my 10 minute drive back to the church (10 RARE minutes of alone time!!), I spontaneously decided to call my friend Sarah. We were able to catch up briefly and as I was about to hang up, she shared that she was editing the Blessed Is She Gift Guide and asked if I wanted to be featured.

WHAAAAAAAT!? 

Us!? Tiny little Habitavit? Our little Catholic greeting card shop? We don't know what we are doing!?

But God does. And He is faithful.

God is our marketer. My everything.

He is never outdone in generosity!

Please pray for me though, dear readers. I am still very much desiring to be on Instagram, I'm still struggling and failing with scrolling, and we are still trying to figure out how to have a presence there (under Phil's direction) while still honoring God's request for me to surrender it to Him. It's humbling to struggle even after receiving such a magnificent confirmation of His Providence. We still aren't sure what social media looks like for Habitavit, but I figured I'd share the messy journey with y'all before we have it figured out!

Side note - do people still read blogs?? I still do, but I'm not sure if others do! I love blogs and the opportunities they provide to "get to know" people... Is my millenial-ness showing?! 

God bless you all! 

Check out the gift guide for some wonderful Catholic gifts and art!! And you can use the code BIS15 for 15% off our whole shop. :)

Peace,
Kat