Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [06.03.17]

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:  

Warren Keelan / Instagram
Warren Keelan / Instagram
Warren Keelan / Instagram 

 because you know you need to just exhale

he captures the waves like no one else I know

the experts are weighing in and say YES: chocolate cake for breakfast is beneficial (!!)

maybe a fun summer project with the kids?

Erik Johansson 

extraordinary projects months in the making:

the most stunning photos tweaked with photoshop you may ever see

future days? brilliant idea right here

5 Reasons to Streamline Your Life: New research shows why it’s better to live a less cluttered life

a really special retirement

Geert Weggen
Geert Weggen 
Geert Weggen 

his subjects took aim right back

good thoughts: Two Words That Can Transform Your Parenting

defining success in a beautiful way: “learn to give beyond yourself”

What My Sons on the Autism Spectrum Have Taught Me

an ‘old soul’ with an impressive idea beyond his years — to help those with disabilities

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

JPC Van Heijst 
JPC Van Heijst 
JPC Van Heijst 

we thought these were really something: pilots have some of the most stunning views of our world

learning to walk in each other’s shoes – a fascinating year long project

at 98? she’s written thousands of letters to military members deployed overseas

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

caring neighbors & kind words will always outnumber evil

Wonder Woman: Doctor fighting for her life hailed as hero

“Don’t borrow the worries of tomorrow because they may not ever come and you’ve wasted today focusing on that,” Dr. Garmon-Brown said. “That’s how I try to live my life, living with cancer.”

“Broken pots spill more water. Be glad you’re broken. That means God can use you.”

yes, yes yes: “…it’s not always about how much money you can make in this world, but what kind of a difference you can make”

a simple act of caring creates an endless ripple

Post of the Week from these parts here

…maybe the best way to live a good year is to do a reset halfway through the year. Just keep showing up — because this is how you never, ever give up:

need to rescue your year in the middle of the year? How to make June the new January

And then U2 and Bono took everyone to church … and the audience leaned in with U2 and sang about Christ’s deliverance through the cross:

“He will lift you higher and higher… He will lift you up when you call… He will bring you shelter from the storm… I believe in the Kingdom Come… Then all the colours will bleed into one… Bleed into one… But yes, I’m still running… You broke the bonds… And you loosed the chains… Carried the cross of my shame… “

…and because you so want to love right now —

Download your June 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.

After viewing a wide range of their Bibles at their gathering center in Oklahoma, I could not be more excited about this, could not be anticipating this more: Museum of the Bible is a 430,000 square foot museum opening in Washington DC — just blocks from the Capital and the National Mall.

When it opens in November 2017, it will be the most technology advanced museum in the world — and it’s sole purpose is to get people engaged with the Bible.

Join me in a movement to honor the Bible, and add your name to Museum of the Bible’s One Million Names campaign!  

The Museum of the Bible’s One Million Names Wall will display the names of one million people who honor the Bible — please, be one of them, add your name to the wall? By adding your name, you are leaving a legacy and sharing your commitment to the Bible with the world.

As you make your declaration, you will be entered for the chance to win a trip to tour the museum with me (and really, you could not tour this museum with anyone more excited) before it opens to the public!

Let’s experience the emotion, inspiration and thoughts provoked by the impact, narrative and history of the Bible.

This truly is a unique once in a lifetime opportunity.

Museum of the Bible will fly you and a guest round trip to Washington D.C., provide a hotel stay for two nights, & schedule a pre-opening tour with you, so this Bible-loving farm girl can tour the museum with you. There is no entry fee or donation required to enter this drawing, but you must register to win before June 30.


ENTER HERE TO WIN A FREE TRIP FOR TWO TO WASHINGTON, D.C. TO TOUR THE MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE WITH ME!

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

on repeat this week: Good Good Father

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…carry this with you today: Success isn’t about being amazing…it’s about being obedient.

Before you blink and your one life’s a tendril of smoke, a memory, a vapor, gone, know this: you are where you are for such a time as this—not to make an impression, but to make a difference. Break free of your comfort zone today and do something — touch someone, give something, help someone, pray for someone, serve someone, #betheGIFT for someone.

What really matters is living a life that is good on the inside — not one that just looks good from the outside.

Today — only move with compassion. Go slow enough to be moved with compassion: “When [Jesus] saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion.” Mt9:36

Do whatever He puts in front of you and do it with great love — this is what makes any day, any life, anybody great. Miracles keep happening in the mundane.

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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.