Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [09.30.17]

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:

Merlin Kafka: Instagram / website 
Merlin Kafka: Instagram / website 
Merlin Kafka: Instagram / website

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

 

anyone else wanna get up and dance?

so did you know? this one’s for those who love words:

12 nouns that are always plurals

so, ummmm: this could change everything

Benjamin Bortels

love what they’re doing here: it has the potential to be a great solution to a popular problem

could not love this more:

 they record their family’s reaction to the news they are adopting 4 siblings

always an interesting study: The Best Public Colleges in the US

stunning

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The 9 Most Breathtaking Photos of Saturn’s Cassini Voyage:

this photo shows the pale blue dot that is our home: Earth. Taken from roughly 900 million miles away, it is yet another humbling reminder of our tiny place in the universe.

keep looking for kindness…because it’s really everywhere

Reading is Agonizing for Me – How Can I Study the Bible in Small Bits?

created by 2 teens: Project Heal is offering new hope 

good stuff: Bring Your Bible to School Day: bring it, share it, live it

at 52? she’s a proud member of her university’s marching band we circled ’round this one!

Air Canada Pilot Overhears Distressed Mom on Plane, Then Drives Her to Husband’s Bedside

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

There is beauty — in the midst of the brokenness

Hyatt Photography

undone: hero groom saves boy from drowning #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

Lou Holtz: what he wished he knew when he was 21

William Malcolm

What began as friendly service is now a legacy

This organization places mentors in schools to get students thinking and talking about their dreams and how to achieve them.

Rather than focusing on academics and graduation rates, the project wants to expand on students’ ambitions.

“You don’t have to be an adult to influence your community. All you need is a compassionate heart.”

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

These People. This Story. I want to grow up & be them.

It’s worth it — fighting to stay in the gift of this present moment.  #1000Gifts

…yeah, you know it: life kinda goes sideways & stories don’t have the endings we pray for — and how in the busted world do you stay brave enough to even dare to keep Hoping?

This woman nails it:

Daring to Hope When It’s Not Happy Endings: How to Sing in the Dark

@AnnVoskamp & @sheilawalsh talk about the healing that came when they found their identities in Christ alone. pic.twitter.com/8EFPPXz2tz

— LifeTodayTV Program (@LifeTodayTV) September 15, 2017

healing can come…

so so good

Humanity is astonishingly beautiful & what if we were the positive & believed that change is always possible?

Post of the Week from these parts here:

… so it turns out: When we remember the humanity of the other — there is no other.

There is only us:

you’re as free as you break others free

All because someone cared. #BeTheGIFT #WhatAreYouDoing?

Because it’s never too late to love right where you are: Download your September 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 September G.I.F.T list

God Help Me

[ Print’s FREE here: ]

There is only so much time.

And I’ll admit, over the years I got so much wrong.

So there it is: I have been the broken mama who punished when I needed to pray. Who hollered at kids when I needed to help. Who lunged forward when I should have fallen back on Jesus.

And until you see the depths of brokenness in you, you really can’t know the depths of Christ’s love for you.

And for crying out loud, there is only so much time to be broken and given and multiplied.

I never expected to get so much wrong. Yet also? I never expected love like this. I never expected so much joy. Please be patient with God’s patient work in you.

And the thing is — it’s not that your heart isn’t ever going to break; it’s how you let the brokenness be made into abundance afterward. And afterward, I’d had to say sorry—no, I got to say sorry—so many times.

Isn’t repentance a foundational thesis of life, of taking the broken way? If the whole life of believers should be repentance, then what is the call of the whole life of believers but a broken way?

You have enough of Him — and He is enough. You are enough — because the great I AM is in you & with you & for you.

He is enough — and that is enough.

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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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