Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [12.17.16]


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: 




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

when I sit with his photos, the world stops and exhales









I kinda love this gift the most




Tri Setyo Widodo 

there’s something deeply calming about focusing on things like this 





okay, seriously — these are #familygoals



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the happiest gift of more Jesus this year:


The Greatest Gift … &  Unwrapping The Greatest Gift —


and over at the The Greatest Christmas there’s a  whole library of free printable ornaments, Christmas cards, gift tags, gifts boxes, scavenger hunt,   and more —


our gift to you for The Greatest Christmas!  





love from a stranger goes a very long way: who will we go love today? #BeTHEGIFT




Image via Jeffrey Brown/PCI Global

 okay, as farmers, couldn’t be happier about stuff like this 





kinda been on repeat here: because I knew you… 


I have been changed for good





the #sharekindess campaign: saving thousands of lives #beTHEGIFT





Star Wars — Try Not to Cry Edition…





what a story


“You can go through what we’ve been through and are facing and be crushed —  or you can be confident.” Uh — this right here, folks





you’ve got to meet her: Leanne Joyce… #BeTheGIFT




Hannah Karim
Hannah Karim

Don’t stop praying before/after pics of devastation in Aleppo #WithAleppo




you’ve gotta see who he thanks every single day





after she was evicted at 89 yrs old? the neighbour shows up and does what’s crazy perfect


“It was the right thing to do,” she said. “We’re family — the whole neighbourhood.” #BeTHEGIFT





really — it’s all about helping others on the journey with us #BeTheGIFT





If you could stand in someone else’s shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently? Be kind out there — we’re all fighting a hard battle.




…so, hands down, this the most revolutionary thing that every one of us needs to pass on to our people, the next generation, all the world’s kids more than anything else:

the best gift we have got to give the next generation (and it’s not what’s popularly peddled)





never, ever, ever, EVER give up hope





they needed to know: no one is ever, ever, EVER forgotten





















Sharing bits of my  broken heart here?  Life Today with James and Betty Robison : Brokenness


Breaking Free of being afraid of broken things – because Christ is redeeming everything



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Post of the Week from these parts here:


 — this little girl’s name is Sham.

And she came to us from Aleppo…

And… well, honest, I’m just all kinds of busted & this is all I could think about today:


The World-Changing Art of Not Being A Sham This Christmas





on repeat this week: An Advent Hymn



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 You all are giving the gift of breaking free to your people & it’s kinda blowing me away how you’re sharing breaking free— sharing the life transformation 


Grab the Gift of Breaking Free into the Abundant Life 






O’ Holy Night




  [ Print’s FREE here: ]


…Today? “Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions & praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns — it’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life” Phil4:6-7MSG.

Turns out? Worry is always belief gone wrong. Because some part of your heart doesn’t believe that God will get it right. 

But Peace is belief that exhales.

Because your heart believes that God’s love is everywhere – like air. It’d be quite something — for us all to breathe deep peace & exhale.

Either leave your worries with God today…or your worries will make you leave God.


~excerpt from The Greatest Gift


www.TheGreatestChristmas.com


[excerpted from our little Facebook family … come join us each day?]


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.






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