Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [05.07.16]

Happy, happy, happy weekend!

Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeeming everything — and that there’s love everywhere & for ((you))! 

Serving up only the Good Stuff for you right here:

Lukas Furlan 
Lukas Furlan 
Lukas Furlan

because you know you need to just exhale

oh, hello

this humpback whale made quite the entrance!

Rodessa Villanueva Reyes
Rodessa Villanueva Reyes
Rodessa Villanueva Reyes

creative mom is back with more cardboard fun!

New Puzzles from the 2016 New York Toy Fair

mind boggling and just plain fun to watch

the intrigue of an owl’s silent flight

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gather the family for this one? solving the rubik’s cube: blindfolded

can reading make you happier?

glory

Jackson Public Schools

what if we’d do this everyday?

a peek into a new way of training young doctors: surgeon tryouts

Facebook

a most beautiful act of kindness that is just getting started

Yes. And thank you.

Magda Wasiczek 
Magda Wasiczek 
Magda Wasiczek

she photographs the very small in extraordinary ways

 recently discovered – and it’s just stunning

Lisa-Jo Baker

yes, this: When You Still Need Your Mom and She’s Not There Anymore

and wow: JetBlue gave everyone a reason to smile onboard this flight

Thierry Bornier / This image was captured very early in the morning after climbing Yellow Mountain at 3 am and waiting for few hours in the cold and wind at -4 degrees. No HDR and no Photoshop was used for the effect of this image, everything is 100% natural.

we can never get enough when National Geographic has photo contests

he’s just sharing love, no strings attached

at just 9 years old? she’s doing THIS  what can we go do?

anything is possible – just believe

on the top of the stack at the farm

Hope Heals: A True Story of an Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love: Katherine and Jay married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams, they planted their lives in the city and in their church community. On April 21, 2008, as their baby slept in the other room, Katherine collapsed, suffering a massive brain stem stroke without warning. Miraculously, Jay came home in time and called for help.

Katherine was immediately rushed into micro-brain surgery, though her chance of survival was slim. Defying every prognosis, with grit and grace, Katherine and Jay, side by side, struggled to regain a life for Katherine as she re-learned to talk and eat and walk. An excruciating yet beautiful road to recovery has led the Wolf family to their new normal, in which almost every moment of life is marked with the scars of that fateful day.

I absolutely love this woman. Her story is unforgettable and a hands-down must-read.

meeting the man who saved her life: 20 years later

Jess Katz
Jess Katz

Two brothers were separated by the Holocaust. And 77 years later? Their families reunited

sometimes the best way to help someone who has fallen into a hole? is to climb in with them

 We are joining together to remind the world —
that every woman matters.

“She Is Priceless” Is A Campaign To Make A Difference In The Lives Of Oppressed Women.

Mercy House is teaming with four organizations that are on the ground changing lives.

A pearl is a healed wound.  An oyster protects itself from irritation and suffering and the result is a priceless pearl.  The women supported by this campaign have endured unthinkable suffering in their lives and often feel forgotten.  

Might you join us on Tuesday? 

at 100? she’s running in relays and sharing some good good words here

a very special delivery

Post of the Week from these parts here:

So if we’re being gut honest here? We don’t really want the cards or the flowers this weekend…or what gets wrapped up in shiny paper, or stuffed in a bag with the wrinkled tissue paper.

Could someone just maybe wrap up this? Because it’s what every mother really wants anyway:

the most life-changing thing any woman can do for herself this Mother’s Day

Family turns tremendous loss into a mission with purpose

it’s ok to lean on someone stronger

Greater is He (don’t miss this)

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 No matter what today? It’s simply, already, okay:

“God will supply every need of yours” Phil. 4:19

I don’t need to be perfect,

I need to simply feel His perfect love. 

I don’t need to be in control

I need to simply be in Christ.

I don’t need to be more —

because He is all I need.

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‪ Dare to fully live!

That’s all for this weekend, friends.

Go slow. Be God-struck. Grant grace. Live Truth.

Give Thanks. Love well. Re – joy, re- joy, ‘re- joys’ again

Share Whatever Is Good.