Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [08.26.17]

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 Deakin
Matt Deakin
Matt Deakin

your soul needs time to be still and breathe in the extraordinary glory right here  

Our kind of People: Tired Boy And His Cow Lose Out At Dairy Fair, Fall Asleep And Win The Internet 

we gathered ’round this one

Millennial Motherhood

Three Traps for Young Moms

so did you know? 15 of the best sponge life hacks

Jill Bliss 
Jill Bliss 
Jill Bliss 

 sit with some wonder and awe at your Maker — your soul begs to worship 

and ummm…she’s 80? I LOVE THIS! what is something new we can go do today?

Bob Holtzman

the world can be such a beautiful place: This photo is so much more than what it appears

just slack-jawed, Our Maker: the solar eclipse in totality in Columbia, SC

opportunities to share the Good News are really everywhere

Oddleiv Apneseth, Momentagency/Institute

this farmer? he spent 7 years building this incredible spiral ramp to his barn

you’ve got to meet her: Nancy Stevens

 

hey? It would be kinda a humbling joy to meet you here in October?

an extraordinary little girl on an ordinary bike

he’s doing so much in this small town

“If we would love each other and spur each other on to good deeds —

then the world’s going to be a better place.” #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

 

Read with brimming tears. Thank you for this, Jon Bloom: My Dark Night of the Soul

these officers are giving back and breaking down walls #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

Cherish Andrea

…why is it that we so often live distant, fragmented, and serving tirelessly to earn our keep? Maybe today is one of those days we just need to hear and know…and let this one sink in — Revel in the truth that you are seen even when no one else is looking:

why the times you feel unseen by the world, may be the best times of your life

a social experiment: homeless man does an incredible act

what makes a happy marriage? 8 solid reasons to never give up looking

To counter a narrative of fear about refugees, a community in New Haven, Connecticut, breaks bread — quite literally — with their new neighbor Zainab, an Iraqi cook. AMAZING! What if we did this everywhere? #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

… when is the last time you slowed down to listen to your body? Your life? Your heart? Heart failure has way of just kinda — doing just that. So this is the kind of big interior stuff that’s happening here:

Life After Heart Failure: How to Listen to Your Life, Your Body, Your Heart

and how beautiful is this? 7 siblings find a forever home #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 and   download your August G.I.F.T list

on repeat this week: Build My Life

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…so yeah, this summer my heart beat’s amplified so loudly in a hospital room, it’s thrum is the only sound and I blink it back in the room’s shadows, everything slowed down and stripped away to just my beating heart: Life’s not about winning some race — it’s about resting in grace.

Life’s not about growing your career, your bank account, your retirement fund, your platform, your status — life’s about growing your soul.

That is the moment I knew my heart, no matter what, knew the strongest rhythm for the best life. That is the moment I knew Christ who moves into the neighbourhood and dwells within, He beats Truth within. And He tells you to be still so you can hear the real rhythm and meaning of being.

So now I come home to fully live —

I come home, pull dandelion weeds out of the garden and pick a handful of the boisterous zinnias that Kai planted last spring and I put them in an old jar, and set them by the sink.

And I’m learning it again & again: Listen to your absurdly glorious life. Listen to the holy heart of your one sacred life. You need to take time to listen to your life — so you can make the life 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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