Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [09.17.16]

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:  

Mary Anne Morgan
Mary Anne Morgan
Mary Anne Morgan

That light. Those pudgy baby hands. If this doesn’t win your Saturday, well. I just don’t even know what to tell you.

You always gotta watch yo’ back…

Shawn Irish

You guys — the struggle. It is so. real. Related: #7. Where can I find a zebra dress like that?

My mind is blown. How do you just create this? And…does anyone else want to cry actual tears when it crumples?!

Fran Parente

THIS. All my childhood “wanna-be spy” dreams come true. Now? My grown-up book-loving heart’s dream come true...

Apparently, an old dog cannot learn new tricks — because I sat and tried this for 5 minutes yesterday and finally waved the white flag. Shoe-tying finger muscle memory is a REAL THING and apparently cannot be tampered with. So — what’s the verdict? Can you do it?

Jennifer Dukes Lee

What One Girl Taught Me About Vulnerability — this. Yes. That first brave step.

Anyone else have a love/hate relationship with that flight path screen — when you’re stuck on those long-haul flights? Sitting in despair, watching your plane move oh. so. slowly — but so fascinated you just can’t look away…

Over the Edge 

anyone in? rappelling for a great cause. Note: Does not mix well with a fear of heights.

you’ve got to meet him: Dwayne Spencer

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Medical trauma can be so real…so scary… for such little people. What a beautiful tool to help make little hearts feel safe

cheering wildly about this:

KidsDiscover: a brand new missions module for homeschool families. It’s packed with videos and resources that help introduce kids to global missions and Bible translation. Must come see this!

When they just can’t seem to take “No” for an answer….

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This is kinda sorta breathtakingly beautiful. To see — to dream — to capture — to share it with the world.

Adam and Kristin Polhemus

neighbor helping neighbor – #BeTheGift

Emily Freeman

For when you think you might be doing silence wrong

Totally makes me want to just pack up and explore this crazy big world of ours…

 it was a grace to dialogue with Publishers Weekly – sharing a bit on brokenness

meet our kids where they’re looking, Lord…

PurpMe

this – right here

he set out to prove a simple idea: people are good and the world is a good place. Yeah — really just couldn’t love this more.

Post of the Week from these parts here

… I kinda wonder if it’s hurting all of us? Hurting us, hurting our people, more than we even know?

Yeah — I’m all in:

Why We All Need the Beauty Bias to Stop

This is the important work that changes how this world spins — have you checked out Mercy House Global?

Best friends in a Chinese foster home — now reunited this side of the ocean. Preserving friendships — history — a little bit of their past… yeah. Couldn’t be more beautiful.

students gather to sing for their teacher battling cancer

Jesus help us carry you — alive in us Your light shines through.

With every act of love — we bring the Kingdom Come!

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I know, the week may look impossible up ahead — but the truth is: “Only one thing is necessary.” Luke 10:42

The only thing necessary today — is to let everything else come after keeping company with Him. Just keep company with Jesus. Just keep saying: ‘I trust you, Jesus.’

Simply focus on Him. Simple things become complications because of our expectations. And today the only expectation? Is to trust Him without limitation.

It’s already okay, exhale & smile: Trust His Heart & Simply. Do. the. Next. Thing.

Believe it: The cross you’ve been given — is always God’s kindest decision. This cross you’re carrying today? Is carrying you toward who you are meant to be.

 

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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.