Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [09.10.16]

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:  

Warren Keelan 
Warren Keelan
Warren Keelan 

come away for a bit?

Praise the Lord! (love, love, love!)

Peggy Pisano

helping hearts heal

she’s got it: “anybody can do anything, as long as they put their mind to it”

Books on the Rail

all aboard this clever idea!

some interesting organization advice right here!

California Wildlife Center
California Wildlife Center 

because sometimes we all need help getting back on our feet

take-off in slow motion – just fascinating, so who knew?

Palo Alto College

now this story is sure to bring a smile

there’s a lot of good people in this world

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5 students. turning grief into joy. one simple act.

she’s on a mission: to serve others

Jennifer Tucker

A little reminder for you this weekend, wherever you are, whatever you are facing:

God is good.

He loves you.

You can trust Him.

He will do what He says He will do.

Even when your circumstances seem hopeless…in hope, believe against hope…be fully convinced that God is able to do what He has promised.

It may not look the way you thought it would, it may not happen as fast as you would like, it may not make sense and you may not understand it all right now…but God can be trusted, He loves you more than you can ever imagine, and His plans for you are good…He is working everything together for your good and His glory.

So give Him glory.

Even in the waiting, even in the storms, even in the hardest days…believe God and give Him glory, and your faith will grow.

Don’t miss this: (Free printable encouragement from Romans 4, and a few more words about the faith of Abraham, can be found over at Little House Studio)

community does care

…so the neck will be breaking out in nervous blotches…but it would be a joy to meet you!

A humbling grace to be visiting a bit with James and Betty Robison on Life Today!

Come join us? Tuesday, September 20 – free tickets available

What would it look like if Canadian women of faith were stronger together
through a connected infrastructure coast to coast?

GATHER is an invitation. To tell the Canadian story. 

To champion a culture of support as we walk out our callings:
unified and diverse.

To connect us all regionally and nationally through a robust network
on the ground and online. 

God is stirring in us the desire for a uniquely Canadian expression of
His heart for us.
 
In 2016 we will Gather locally, regionally and nationally. 

Please sign up and count yourself in! 

are your biggest dreams even possible?

Leah Paske/ Facebook

reaching out to the one

perspective

Post of the Week from these parts here

so true, you can end up with a life you’d never choose — and then this kind of thing happens & it sorta blows your heart up:

the unlikely thing you have to believe when you’re living a life you didn’t choose

a lifelong friendship, thanks to the gift of life

you must come meet him

I AM

in oceans deep, my faith will stand…

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All the brokenness in the world begins with the act of forgetting — forgetting that God is enough, forgetting that what He gives is good enough, forgetting that there is always more than enough to give thanks for. 

But You… You have no idea how I needed You to do just that,

to pull me in close & hold me with those Words, all that really matters:

“I will not forget you. I have written you on the palm of My hands”

Though we forget, though we’re prone to chronic soul amnesia, You never forget us, You never abandon us, You never give up on us. You have written us, our very names, on the palm of Your hands, written even me right into You — though we forget, You re-member us, You put us & the broken bits & members of us back together again. We are re-membered in You — You who engrave Your love letter to us right into Your skin…. right into Your beating heart.

And help us to remember? It really is okay. So you are broken. Be brave. Let yourself be loved.

In the name of the only One who ever loved us to death & back to life again… In Jesus’ name… 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.