Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [09.24.16]

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 

come away a bit? enjoy these gorgeous views from above

Mark Cowan / Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition

a most extraordinary scene in the Amazon? a crown of butterflies

so did you ever how matches are made?

cheering about this goods news in 7 US cities

he’s captured his runs through the seasons in a year. kinda make you want to get out there too?

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and we’re smiling at this morning routine

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Ginny Sheller
Ginny Sheller
Ginny Sheller

…just too beautiful not to share

exhale and take all of this goodness in

teens no longer need to fear being bullied or left out at lunch – thanks to an incredible new ‘Sit With Us’ app

got faith? this young girl sure does

taking the hard and turning it into good

Annapolis Lighthouse

come see how they’re giving the homeless dignity

they’re onto something here: creating a system where clothing never goes to landfills

Lauren Puryear

she’s fed thousands in need on a shoestring budget – and not stopping anytime soon

yeah, we can all learn from Alex

MaineWorks

she’s helping inmates transition back into society by giving them “a sense of purpose and belonging”

a vulnerable interview with a family raising a son with autism

and the world came together

Johnny H. Nguyen

Post of the Week from these parts here

… a long, hard week? And yeah, exactly: Why do you get out of bed in the morning? Needing this for the weekend, for Monday, for right about right now:

The Powerful Reason Why We All Have To Keep Getting Out of Bed —

That Changes a Broken World

healing with hugs

what he’s doing here? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! please don’t miss this one…

The God I Know

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… there are some of us who are sorta stuck here in the middle of the story, God, and we don’t know what the next chapter holds.

We’ve got no idea how our hearts are about to get broken or when, what the doctor could end up saying tomorrow, how the kids will turn out, or what’s on the next page or the one after that.

And when you’re stuck in the middle of the story? Well, honestly, it’s easy to feel at the end of your rope.

And You pull us close, real close: “I’d never forget you—never.

Look, I’ve written your names on the backs of my hands.” Isa49:16(MSG)

You’ve etched the very letters of our name, of who we are, right into You.

You haven’t forgotten us or this chapter or this story, and if You haven’t forgotten us, we’re not about to go forgetting that Your stories always work out in the end — and if things aren’t working out quite yet, it just means we’re not quite yet to the end. We’ll literally practice our faith — we’ll practice saying thanks in the middle.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the mess, 

Faith thanks God in the middle of the night,

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story — 

Because it believes in the relentless goodness of Him who will won’t stop writing till there’s good at the end of this story.

 

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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.