Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [07.02.16]

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: 

Dirk Dallas via fromwhereidrone.com
Dirk Dallas via fromwhereidrone.com 
Dirk Dallas via fromwhereidrone.com

have you got time to come along & enjoy this view?

just opened to the public – ready for a ride?

so, who knew?

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new birth…never ever gets old!

the power of a great photo: How to Style Overhead Still Life Photos (it’s SO fun!)

inspiring and unbelievable story:

just goes to show how human kindness can change things…even the most dangerous of animals

the wonder of it

Norfolk Fire-Rescue

a bouquet of flowers and a round of applause for a very special reason

serving them up since 1850

an impromptu National Anthem live at the Lincoln Memorial

Hidenobu Suzuki
Hidenobu Suzuki
Hidenobu Suzuki

sharing the beautiful around our world

these future Olympians share some good good words here

The Skye High Foundation

the profoundly important hidden meaning to this purple butterfly

love what you do

a chain of giving – with no stopping in sight

yes, yes, yes

“Understand that having problems is not an excuse to give up – just an opportunity to fight harder and win… I won today. Today, I am a winner. My mishap does not define me. It does not limit me. It just helps the fighter in me stay alive.”

This is historical

…. these days kinda leave you thinking that we’ve never needed this more than we do right about now. Fill the mall. Be one of a million standing for Jesus in DC in just 2 weekends — on 07.16.16.

Moments of historic change? Are marked by historic gatherings. Make your mark now — it matters now. 

Together 2016 is the day our generation will meet on the National Mall to come together around Jesus in unified prayer, worship, & a call for catalytic change.

We’re all coming together with as many people as possible — people who believe Jesus changes everything.

If you believe #JesusChangesEverything? Be there — make your mark, be heard & tell the world: #JesusChangesEverything. Can you join us? This is historical: https://reset2016.com

You may also join us via live stream! 

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the Christian life is gain

…your wounds are where the Light shines through

Post of the Week from these parts here: 

… so our world has kind of blown up

— and it’s been it’s own kind of perfect:

How to Catch a Falling Star: Our Adoption Story

[or why you thought shouldn’t adopt or care for orphans — & were wrong]

a mom’s extraordinary love transforms the short lives of hospice babies

from inside of a silo?!

serving up dignity and love

the love of family

Great are You, Lord

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…thank You come the end of the day, Lord

there’s no condemnation for those in Christ,

for those in over their heads, in a mess, in a bad way.

Thank You there’s no condemnation for those who blew it — because they’ve found You,

who gently takes the disillusioned & disappointed & disoriented

and say, “I don’t condemn your brokenness, I carry your burdens.

I don’t condemn you. I came to take it all, shoulder it all, cover it all.

I don’t care about your past, about what you did or didn’t get perfect — I care about your pain. I care about you — I don’t condemn you. I care about you.”

Whatever mess I am in… I can exhale relief: I have a Messiah who meets me in it, won’t leave me in it, and will carry me through it. 

There is never, ever, ever anything to ever fear: Our. God. is. Here. 

In the name of Jesus, the only One who ever loved us to death and back to the real & forever life,

Amen.

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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.