Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [11.11.17]

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: you really want a front row seat right here

grin

so who knew? just had to share this one

Christoffer Relander 
Christoffer Relander 
Christoffer Relander

Nostalgic Landscapes Captured in Jars Using an In-Camera Double Exposure Technique — kinda like capturing time in a bottle 

huh. Wasn’t expecting this…

Tired? Damaged? Regrets? God Wants to Recruit You…. THIS.

because we all need a little help from our friends … right!?!?

UBMF

they’re on a mission to help the homeless – with just a bike, backpack and a burrito We all can do something.

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

so you gotta come see where he lives

how he taught his players to respect others 

can you even?!?

Mercy House’s new Christmas stocking stuffer bundles have kinda stolen my heart

(Mercy House engages those with resources to say yes to the plight of women in poverty, empowers women and teenage mothers around the world through partnerships and sustainable fair trade product development & disciples women to be lifelong followers of Jesus Christ.) 

These Fair Trade stocking stuffers are perfect for kids this Christmas!  Not only will your children delight in the handmade items, they are life changing for families around the world.  Come share in the joy!

 

Fox 29

THIS right here, YES: Stranger GIFTS barbershop to man behind ‘Haircuts for Homeless’

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

coming up on TBN this Monday, November 13th @8pm — an interview with Christine Caine, Laurie Crouch, & yours truly.  Prepare to tune in and have your socks right blessed off — these two are something else

I watched this one slack-jawed — then watched it twice more. What if we lived more like this? #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

would love to meet you here?

The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has invited me to speak at Evangelicals for Life in DC this coming January. I’m really looking forward to being a part of this event & would be honored if you’d consider joining us for this direly needed conversation 

(…and passing along? If you use my personal discount code at checkout, you’ll save an extra 20% on your ticket: ANNVOSKAMP. This code expires on November 18th!)

they’re implementing creativity, gumption, grit, resilience, & entrepreneurship to revive this community

Love this … Desperate is Normal: A Field Manual for Overwhelming Anxiety  

Kinda undone here: how they’re helping women re-enter the work force? #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

 

so much good: “I’m not just a band teacher. I’m a counselor, a father, a friend.”

Re? Well, yeah — she can do anything

This is Wanda B. Goines. At the time this video was filmed she was 92 years old. She calls this poem “The Gift Wrap & The Jewel“. It’s so beautiful  — and I’m not teary, you’re teary 

Post of the week from these parts here

The Unexpected Secret about ‘Boring Men’ — and the Women who Love Them

WHAT a story here: come meet Ami – a champion of what can be done when you believe and put your heart and soul and energy into something

I fought for you

“Piece by piece, God was making me new … slowly but surely, He has scrubbed away all the old hang-ups and all the old junk from the old me and made me new in His perfect timing.”

Dear Us,

So. Just SIX Saturdays till Christmas — I. Know.

Okay, so.  Who wants their Christmas MOJO back? Yeah, me too. And straight up — I AM SO STOKED ABOUT THIS NEW (!!) & UNEXPECTED WAY FOR STRESS-FREE, WONDER-FULL HOLIDAYS!

I’ve been kinda waiting my whole LIFE for this — Can. You. Even.

Dear Us: The Surprising (New) Way to Have a Stress-Free, WONDER-FULL Holiday & get Our Christmas MOJO back!

maybe it’s time to think about our perspective and give thanks for the big & little things in everyday life!

Want the gift of less stress?

It’s hiding where you’d never expect it.

Want to know how your brokenness could be transformed into abundance? Tired of trite answers?

It’s possible — abundant joy is always possible, especially for you.

Don’t miss out on the gift of the life you’ve always wanted.

Featuring new stories from Ann’s blog, powerful excerpts from the New York Times bestseller The Broken Way, and Ann’s signature photography from her farm and family, this gorgeous book will be a profoundly meaningful and needed gift — not only to your own weary soul, but any loved one looking for the relief of a bit of beauty and abundant joy.

Grab a copy of Be The Gift — and we will immediately email you a link to a FREE gift of THE WHOLE 12 MONTH *Intentional* Acts of Givenness #BeTheGIFT Calendar to download and print from home or at your local print shop!  Just let us know that you ordered Be The Gift  over here.

You only get one life to love well.

Pick up Be The Gift and live the life you’ve longed to.

yes, yes, yes: he left his career to help kids in need of direction…and hope

#BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

Undone by this glorious spitfire  — this CD is on repeat

[ Print’s FREE here: ]

…I’m telling you: transparency can feel like a death trap. And how I know it — the head can know wisdom — but the heart knows its wounds. But you have to find a way to let the love in. Open your arms wide open today — and let the love in. Live with walls to block out pain — and you will block out all the love that’s trying to get in.

This is worth the risk. I keep trying to tell my bruised heart this. To risk loving one another is our greatest safety, and to fearfully try protecting our hearts is our gravest error. Live like a gift. Your gift is not what you do — but who you are & who He is in you. And He is making your heart into a gift.

This is what you have to remember to always do with a broken heart: You be the gift. The only real gift you can give is a bit of your heart.

Believe. Be The Gift today. Find your gift — and give it away.

Feel the weight of His love, the gravity of His goodness, let the closeness of God weigh you down in the blasting storm. You are loved.

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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

Share Whatever Is Good.