Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [05.27.17]

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:  

Mary Anne Morgan 
Mary Anne Morgan
Mary Anne Morgan

Life is not an emergency, life is a GIFT. Get out there and enjoy the beauty of your weekend! 

 

just who says you can’t have any fun on a rainy day?

this: 10 Things Your Teen Loves to Hear

this is one parade you won’t want to miss: just. the. best

​ Icako Stamatov via Bored Panda 

then and now – a fascinating project

twin sisters celebrate their 100 years young: so fun!

yes, please: How a Bucket List Eliminated My Mom Guilt

a spirit not to be contained by a senior citizen status

“I don’t ever worry, I hand it over to the Lord”

Emily Gibson

beautiful: The Moment of Detachment

they asked everyone on campus for $0.25 – what can we go do?

Phillip Haumesser
Phillip Haumesser
Phillip Haumesser

the joys of simple pleasures right here

only a seat away: because everyone deserves to have a friend

Heart-wrenching story about a chance meeting with Mr. Rogers  had to share

the whole earth is full of His glory!

Kayla Aimee
Kayla Aimee

THIS: How A Micro-Preemie Mom Is Learning To Let Go

“When your brand new baby tips the scales at just one pound, eight ounces and fits fully in the palms of your hands all of your expectations shift.”

the first time she’s walked in 10 years…on her wedding day 

from homeless to hero: and how the community is giving back

one of the very best surprises you’ll see this month?

Facebook

seriously —  this mom is  all sorts of amazing!?!

“As a mom, you just want to help your kids get through things. I always believed in him. I knew he could do it and I just wanted to have his back.” 

a charity designed to collect comfort, not money. Soul funding for those who feel broken.

“Life is messy. But if you’re going to love other people —

you’re going to have to be willing to step into their mess.”

yes: #TheBrokenWay #BeTheGIFT

her remarkable journey from homelessness to Harvard graduate: she shares some good words here

… so this is maybe one of the hardest confessions?

But sometimes the hardest confessions makes us the realest real?

Maybe they hand us the real secret sauce for when life gets hard — that we wouldn’t have found any other way?

the real secret sauce when life, parenting, & people are hard

“It’s a beautiful thing to know even though in the midst of sadness and despair, that your loved ones perished so that we might have the freedoms we have.”

an interview with Bono: Beyond the Psalms

discussing the power of the Psalms for all Christians

Levi Voskamp

Post of the Week from these parts here

…after Manchester & a thousand heartbroken prayers: heightened fears & alerts. Crazy times. Injustices everywhere.

And really? This is the real deal:

Don’t be afraid to taste, chew, swallow it down deep. The world kinda desperately needs this right about now — no joke:

After Manchester: What They Don’t Tell You About the Real Justice Warriors

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

always and only: Let it be Jesus

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…as we look into the week ahead? Let’s hold on to this:

He’s making good out of even the bad days.

And God’s good plans are bigger than any of your messes, your regrets, your bad mistakes.

Lord, Thank You

I am not the mistakes I have made.

I am not the plans I have failed.

I am not the wrongs I have done.

I am not forgotten.

I am not abandoned.

I am not alone.

Because You say to the lost: Come.

You say to the Unlikely: Beloved

You say to the Battle Weary: Rest.

In a hard and beautiful world,

Your grace is the only pillowed relief for my tired soul

to rest in You this week — making all things new.

And all the brave heaved relief & smiled their Amen. 

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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

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