The Christmas Edition: Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Soul: [12.23.17]

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 right here: 

Andy Seliverstoff 
Andy Seliverstoff 
Andy Seliverstoff

can hardly get over the joy right here

when just one person believes in you

just kinda spot on: The quiet hero of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (Hint: It’s NOT Jimmy Stewart)

paper-free gift wrap? bring it on!



come away for a bit?

ready to create? anyone else in?!? 13 YouTube Channels to Teach You How to Paint for Free

kinda just the most beautiful sites you may see today?

music performances in hospitals? YES —

it’s striking a chord: as researchers tap the brain to find how music heals

they needed to know: no one is ever, ever, EVER forgotten

JPC van Heijst 
JPC van Heijst 
JPC van Heijst 

we thought these were really something: pilots have some of the most stunning views of our world

a wondrous visit to a winter wonderland

some good, good words here: For the Mom Just Hanging On this Holiday Season

bring on the dancing lights!

“All giving and getting, especially at Christmastime, becomes a reminder of the death of Jesus”

so we circled ’round this one

The Bolster Family

they left their jobs to help cancer patients in need #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

the very, very long wait: for those gifts you just can’t wait to give

after his vulnerable note & $3,000 tip at a local restaurant was discovered? he commented:

“I think the reason (people like this story) is not because of the money, but because of this shared connection.

Wouldn’t it be great if we all fed each other’s souls in a positive way?” #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

glory

kinda astonishing: this anonymous woman? wandered the aisles of a grocery store, looking for random people and insisting upon paying for their groceries. #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay

and maybe one of the best gifts is?

 This weekly family dinner tradition? came unexpectadly with a lesson from a stranger & his pair of boots

Hard family stuff at Christmas? Yep, right there with you.

Kinda heartbroken over some unspoken broken? Yeah, that. Where in the world is a bit of the real Christmas Spirit?

Yep. How a Charlie Brown Christmas like this is just for us

I loved this one so much… kinda the best: how can we go do this somewhere in our world today?

Post of the Week from these parts here:

…maybe wise men and women do more than still seek Him — they seek to be like Him:

The Nativity That All of Us Are Actually In: A Modern-Day Nativity

…the world is desperate for unconditional, defiant, wild love #BeThatLove

is your heart bursting yet? ^^ because yeah, we all need some friends

This is an heirloom, a Christmas tradition, a wonder for the child in all of us! 

Pick up the NEW Pop-Up Advent book, “The Wonder of The Greatest Gift” — with your own 14″ pop-up tree, 25 Bible-inspired ornaments hiding behind 25 Advent doors, a new family read-aloud of 25 Advent devotionals, and a star for the top of the tree! 

just — so beautiful

now this is really something: 88 piano keys are controlling these 500,000 Christmas lights

 

Break free with the tender beauty of The Broken Way & Be The Gift this Advent…  (& get theeself to Target & find the Starbucks card hidden in copies of The Broken Way !) 

Want the gift of light breaking into all the broken places, all the places that feel kinda abandoned?

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

And if you grab a copy of Be The Gift?  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 & live the life you’ve longed to

never a Christmas without this one… absolutely exquisite

Undone: however long the path may seem… let’s do this for Christmas 

choked. right. up. — because we all need to be loved: pass on it

a Christmas never to ever forget — when it’s shared with a friend

The Little Drummer Boy

[ Print’s FREE here: ]

…when it feels like life is a setup to let you down, we will whisper it to ourselves like a resuscitation:

Hope is not the belief that things will turn out well,

but the belief God is working through all things, no matter how things turn out.

You see: Hope is a defiant reliance on God keeping His Word.

The winds & the days may rage & the blaze of things may leave you feeling charred, but now is the time for faith to rise like a phoenix from ashes & we will:

Hold on to His Word for all you’re worth — because His Word is what proves God is trustworthy.

And when you know God is trustworthy — you know today & tomorrow is worthy of Hope.

When your bones know God ultimately makes good on His promises — that’s good enough reason for hope to burn in your bones.

As long as you still are, all is not lost. Being is hope, and hope is presence, and this present moment is a gift pulsing with hope.

And Advent is this baptism of eyes — like a clear washing of eyes, so that we can get to see the wonder & joy & hope again.

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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.