Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [10.14.17]

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:

Thomas Nations 
Thomas Nations
Thomas Nations 

step into a bit a glory right here … because you know you need to just exhale

must see: 2017 Nikon Macro Photo Contest Winners Show The World Like You’ve Never Seen Before

could you do this? every day people pushing themselves to their limits to help to motivate their community

 

good thoughts: If we want a world full of creative, entrepreneurial thinkers, we need to enable and sustain making from a very young age.

just 4 years old? we were amazed!

yes: they’re transforming basketball courts into large scale works of art

changing our view one beautiful face at a time

Smithfly

we circled ’round this one: anyone else thinking this kinda looks like fun?! 

The Day I Looked for a Boy and Found a Man

at 99? he’s still working, still serving

hey? it’s not too late? It would be kinda a humbling joy to meet you here?

heart exploding: moment an 11-year-old girl learns she would be adopted. A judge approved her foster parents’ petition to adopt her and her two younger siblings

two words that are carrying a lasting impact

When this Indiana couple tied the knot last weekend, the groom shared very special “best friend” vows with the bride’s younger sister who has Down syndrome

because we all need a special friend

what a concept: a load of laundry and an hour of conversation

This barber’s sweet gesture for a child with autism? he’s being hailed as an “everyday hero”

come see how he’s loving these babies each week #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

thank you for this, Jon Bloom: How to Resolve Most Relational Conflict

don’t put limits on yourself

Mark Maynard/Amy For Africa

he’s running a marathon to help children in Africa: what can we go do?

“you’ll have as much joy and laughter in life as you will faith in God” thank you, Scott Sauls

we all have a story…

She’s overcome great odds to become an ER doctor

she wants her painful journey to bring others hope

Because it’s never too late to love right where you are:

Download your October 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 October G.I.F.T list

You have no rival, you have no equal, now and forever God You reign! Yours is the kingdom, yours is the glory, yours is the name above all names!

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… hey, all girls need to know right now, that when God decided to pull on skin and make His visitation into the world, He didn’t show up in some backroom of an inner boy’s club or regale us with some black tie inaugural affair.

This is what all girls need to know:

That Christ never beat down a woman with harsh words or lusting eyes or sneering innuendos, but He stepped in and stopped a broken woman from the abuse of angry men

Christ came to the defense of a hurting woman and the Son of Man stood between her ache and her attackers and He lifted the weight of shame from her and cupped her heart with hope and wrote a new future into the dust and dirt of everything and He saved. her. life.

That’s how God loves His daughters with His defense.

That Christ didn’t degrade women in His talk, but He made women heroes in His stories. He invited a woman with a coin and broom to reveal the truth about the Kingdom of God. He elevated a lonely, unmarried woman who dropped her meager resources into the temple treasury as the rebuke of God for all the rich and religious

That’s how God loves His daughters with His words.

That when Christ stepped out of that black tomb, He still didn’t choose to first manifest Himself to prestigious officials, religious leaders, the Twelve, but instead He revealed Himself first to the women. Though no court at the time would accept their testimony, He entrusted the veracity of His resurrection to the witness of women.

That’s how God loves His daughters with His regard.

Girls are a whole world more than pretty faces & pretty hair — they do hard & holy things & change the whole world.

Rise, Esthers, & don’t be afraid to risk like a girl, be fiercely fearless like a girl & change the world like a girl.

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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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