Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [08.19.17]


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:




Dirk Dallas via www.fromwhereidrone.com/gallery 
Dirk Dallas via www.fromwhereidrone.com/gallery 
Dirk Dallas via www.fromwhereidrone.com/gallery 

the most breathtaking views you may see all weekend?








so did you know?! you can listen to and download more than 400,000 free classical music scores right here!








The 10 Best College Campuses Across the Country 





so who knew!?!




Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C., coming November 2017

Museum of the Bible to offer free admission when it opens in November





at 94? he’s learning that it’s hard to be lonely if you surround yourself with kids




hard to believe what showed up on this garden carrot?





everyone we meet throughout our day can make a difference: here’s to a great school year!




so what do you think? Five Reasons To Wear The Same Thing Every Day 





Shaped by Time: glory, glory glory




Mikenorton (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons

so we circled ’round this one…who knew? Trees with “Crown Shyness” Mysteriously Avoid Touching Each Other





college scholarship awarded to player not for his abilities – but for his kindness


We cheering loudly for this one #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay




hair stylist spends 13 hours helping this teen suffering with depression





love what they’re doing at this coffee shop #beTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay




The Damsel and the Villain: powerfully spoken





because every child, especially a child in a refugee camp, should have the chance to just be a kid




www.nicolestarrphotography.com and www.juliasway.org 

can. you. even.? After heart surgery, 3 girls with Down syndrome share 1st birthday cake smash





UNDONE: After 73 years of marriage, this old man sings to his dying wife their favorite song




The Identity Crisis of My Life


Oh God, forgive any faith that’s about moral one-upmanship rather than tear-stained repentance. Busted & praying with @BethMooreLPM





they gathered 50 people and asked them one question:





just — a love like this…





While Alzheimer’s may be stealing the memory of 67-year-old Steve Goodwin, he refuses to let the disease steal his music




Post of the Week from these parts here


… so, this unexpectedly happened when I found myself in ICU with heart failure this summer:


When you Go into Heart Failure and it Turns out to be a Metaphor for All The Things Right Now





kinda undone: come see how he is choosing to serve #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay




Because it’s never too late to love: Download your August 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 &  download August’s G.I.F.T list





Just hold on — and I’ll find you




[ Print’s FREE here: ]


… yeah, heart failure this summer has kinda made it clear:

Life’s detours means God wants you to run right into His arms so He can reconstruct your heart.

Lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to all the blinking monitors, all I can think is:

You only get so much time before here is over. There is only so much time.

There’s only so much time to forgive, to wipe slates clean, to make things right when you’ve gotten things wrongs.

There is only so much time to make love your life.

And this I’ve come to know: sometimes when it feels like things are falling apart — we’re all just really falling into the arms of God.


[excerpted from our little Facebook family … come join us each day?]


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. 






 •  0 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on August 19, 2017 06:14
No comments have been added yet.


Ann Voskamp's Blog

Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.
Follow Ann Voskamp's blog with rss.