Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [04.08.17]

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 & your people right here:  

Marcela Nowak
Marcela Nowak
Marcela Nowak

what she finds in this city in the middle of the night

huge smile

okay: proof that dogs are better than a pillow

laughed till our sides hurt: when this Dutch student got on the plane thinking he was going to Australia

XL-Muse

for all of the book lovers out there? you’ve gotta come see this library

 art out of anything

The Winners Of 2017’s Sony World Photography Contest: Must See! 

because sometimes…we all need to be rescued #beTheGIFT

too good not to share?

Fill Their Basket Sale: everything here 50% off this coming week!  don’t miss this!

50 Questions To Ask Your Kids Instead Of Asking “How Was Your Day”

the boys were wildly intrigued: art out of anything

powerful story: My body wouldn’t break…so I couldn’t heal

come after decades of marriage — he did this with all his love for her

As women sometimes we can fall into the trap of glorifying busy.

This Easter you’re invited into a quiet space, away from the hustle, where you can find true rest, even while the world races by.

 Come Give Up Busy

20 good news stories — because maybe your heart kinda needs it

how these communities  — are making sure no one feels alone

…at times it takes a team to help us finish. Crazy beautiful #beTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

lzf (Bigstock)

How to Survive (Maybe Even Thrive) in Life’s Most Vulnerable Moments

Q Conference: Where Christians gather to engage the most difficult conversations in our culture –

would love to see you here? Nashville, TN: April 26-28, 2017 – this is for everyone — moms, dads, nurses, teachers, pastors

Sellers turn down the highest bid on their home:

after deciding couple with 4 young kids would be the best fit for community based on a heartfelt letter they attached to their offer

Weakness Will Change the World — Will We Let it Change Us?

after losing his legs serving his country — he found a new way to serve #BeTheGIFT

Andrew Richardson/Starbucks

We can all learn from this one —

A customer who thought she had been “less than cheerful” returned to Starbucks the next day with this apologetic letter:

“You taught this ole lady something yesterday about kindness, compassion & staying humble. I thank you. God bless you, today & all your days.” #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

The Unspoken Code of Motherhood: is changing lives

his heaping helping of kindness changed her life #BeTheGIFT 

Amanda Brown

how this bride ended her wedding day? just — tears

he was honored for breaking up a fight – and how he used his 15 minutes of fame?

commending someone else

Couldn’t love this more — what happens when Hutterites sponsor Muslim refugees,

when people from two different cultures become family

#betheGIFT

Post of the Week from these parts here

… kinda hurts how you can turn around one day and your hopes and dreams have sorta burned up or been scorched a bit.

Happens to every single one of us, none of us alone.

You’ll Need This When Your Life is On Fire: When Your Hopes & Dreams Burn Down

The Myth of Scarcity & Living The Mystery of Abundance

…and because you so want to love right now —

Download your April G.I.F.T list & be part of the joy we all need? 

We could all together kinda start a little movement of Giving It Forward Today, choosing to #BeTheGIFT, living broken & given like bread out into a world down right hungry for love right now.

New Multivitamin Series every-ish weekend: Eye in the Sky over Our Neck of the Woods

Our son’s Levi’s eye in the sky takes a gander around our neck of the woods each-ish week

Why showing up and choosing to #BeTheGIFT is kinda everything? 

Take the Dare, Join the Revolution, Pick Up The Broken Way

I Will Trust in You

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..long day & you’ve had big, hard things coming at you. You may not even be saying it out loud — but really? It’s hard to keep showing up when it’d be easier to give up.

But can you hear Him this evening?

“Just Call to Me. I guarantee I will answer you.

I will make you strong & brave.” (Ps.138:3MSG)

Ask Him — He will come & make you strong & brave for the Hard Things. 

So that’s the plan as we look toward the evening hours ahead: Be Brave.

And do not pray for the hard thing to go away.

But pray for a Bravery to come that’s bigger than the Hard Thing.

 

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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.