The Christmas Edition: Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Soul: [12.24.16]

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: 

Andy Seliverstoff
Andy Seliverstoff
Andy Seliverstoff

cannot get over all the joy right here

because sometimes you just have to break out in song, wherever you are

and maybe one of the best gifts is?

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!  

reunions like this — are just kinda the very best

Tiina Törmänen 
Tiina Törmänen
Tiina Törmänen

anyone else wanna go? beautiful Finland under the Northern Lights

a high school student with size 13 feet was wearing size 10 shoes — his school surprised him with this. #BeTheGIFT

Kinda my favourite — I need this one every single year… It isn’t Christmas for me without this one

this makeover transformed a hospital

“…we discovered that this was our mission in life and our hope is that we can inspire other people to share their kindness” #beTheGIFT

coffee. changing lives.

Free Stress-Free Holiday Sticky Notes for Your Soul right here:
No Stress Holiday Manifesto

glory

…so just for you, here are my absolute favorite things from this year, from our hearts and home to yours:

a few of my favorite things: 2016 gift guide

Simply — I just love this: JOY

Post of the Week from these parts here

Hard year.

And there’s a whole tribe of us weary & just —

wanting to prepare our hearts & Him room —

& make room for a bit of Hope.

Yeah — desperately that:

when you’re weary & just want to prepare your heart for Christmas — & a bit of Hope

always good to keep on repeat: He Shall Reign Forevermore

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

 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 

never a Christmas without this one… absolutely exquisite

  [ Print’s FREE here: ]

 

…these disappointments we can’t even talk about —

they might just go ahead & try to make us bitter,

and these banged up expectations of ours,

of all that we had expected things would look like — but don’t — might keep on trying to make us guarded & hard…

and the dreams we can’t even tell anybody about, but feel pretty bruised right about now, they might be trying to convince us to just give up… we can feel You touch us, how You lift our chins slow, how You speak right into us:

“I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” Jer. 29:11MSG

And Your Word touches us. Touches us like a gentle salve tonight in the sorest places… And we feel it: Hope is the salve that keeps our broken hearts soft.

Believe it: When you can’t touch bottom is when you touch the depths of God.

www.TheGreatestChristmas.com

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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.