Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [07.08.17]

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:

Matt Trivett 
Matt Trivett 
Matt Trivett 

your free invitation to exhale: he captures the outdoors like no one else I know

I think it’s fair to say that the world’s oldest gymnast pretty much leaves us all speechless

because we all need a hug

so this man filmed one tree in the woods for a year? capturing things most people will never see — if all the world could talk

Science has great news for people who read actual books — kinda fascinating

so — what do you think of all the hoopla?

Newly discovered photograph suggests Amelia Earhart may have survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands?

thoughtful words to ponder here: Married for More

so who knew?  her silk that ranks as the world’s toughest natural fibre?

Poteau Police Department

a true hero: officer honored for adopting child he saved, and his sibling too

tears…a dance with her daughter’s heart recipient

looking for an online Bible study for women + teen girls?

Join in on your own, as a group of women, a group of teen girls, a woman mentoring the special teen girl in your life, or a woman leading a group of teens! In this 7-session Bible study, Lisa-Jo Baker and friends from (in)courage explore our relationship with Jesus as the ultimate model for authentic friendship — and you’ll learn 7 practical ways to find and keep lasting friendships.

Can. you. even.? “What was it like the first time you saw me?” A conversation between a mother and her adopted daughter

Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda
Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda
Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda

just so creative! They Travel Around the World to Playfully Interact with Architecture

so let’s continue from where we left off last week?

This is episode 3 of an ongoing series called How to Read the Bible which shows how reading the Bible wisely requires that we learn about the ancient literary styles used by the biblical authors

This Isn’t The Same Lecrae

Speaking out about racial injustice almost cost him everything. And it changed everything.

glory, glory, glory — the whole earth full of His glory!

what he’s doing for the elderly, disabled, single-parent families and veterans? a local mission that has sprouted into a nationwide scope unbelievably selfless #TheBrokenWay #beTheGIFT

Paige Franklin Photography 
Paige Franklin Photography 
Paige Franklin

just everything about this one:

Couple gets photo shoot arranged by granddaughter who is ‘obsessed’ with their love story  

here’s to everyone who just keeps showing up

and we could not be cheering any louder for this!

 a trail of notes across thousands of miles leads to the. very. best. proposal.

when you give someone a glimmer of hope and some light in their life? it’s incredible what’s possible

you’ve got to meet him: Eleven-year-old Preston Sharp —

he saw an injustice and decided to do something about it

Do You Have a Friend Like Jonathan?

We Need One Another to Survive

could not love her more: Lisa Harper never married but always wanted a child.

When she heard about a dying orphan in Haiti named Missy, she knew she must fight to save her life.

Post of the week from these parts here

What the Power of Valuing Freedom Really Looks Like

Download your July 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.

Pick up your copy of The Broken Way — and break free.

Find all kinds of free tools at thebrokenway.com and   download your July G.I.F.T list

What a Beautiful Name It Is: the name of JESUS

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..you’re so not alone: Life gets messy & your plans get scribbled over. So just this right now: Erase every worry from today with the perfect eraser of truth. “Give all your worries & cares to God, for He cares about you.” 1 Peter 5:7.

The equation of a fresh start: Give your worries to God —and He gives you peace.

Because this is the deal:

You don’t need to be in control

you need to simply be in Christ…

You don’t need to be perfect

you need to simply feel

His perfect love…

You don’t need to be more

because He is all you need. 

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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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