Because Every End of the Year Needs Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [12.30.17]
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 right here:
Matt Trivett
Matt Trivett
Matt Trivett
kinda perfect way to exhale at the end of the year
you’ve gotta come meet him: at 89? he’s spent decades playing his ukulele for hospital patients
some great ways to give those cardboard boxes in your life a second go-around
so whatcha think? we circled ’round this one
she’s (literally) woven love into the students on her bus: “If you ride Ms. Lopez’ bus with the kids … it is like riding with a family.” #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay
so you may have heard about this one? this church visited Waffle House and kinda stuns them with this…
just so good… How (Not) To Read Next Year
so we think this is one amazing idea!
police officer makes a most daring rescue of a young boy in frozen waters on Christmas day
so he’s onto something here and sharing his invention with the world:
“ask yourself what you as a person can do to help”
25 of some the best good news stories in 2017? Bring it on!
this coming year? let’s get outside
maybe one of the most creative heart-warming surprise homecomings this season? just the best
Glory: When it’s cold in Duluth, IT’S COLD! Take a look at what -20 can do!
After seeing the need, she started Operation Scarf: hats, gloves, scarves left in anonymous gift bags with a simple note to wrap needy in kindness:
“I’m Not Lost. If You’re Stuck In The Cold Please Take Me To Keep You Warm! You are loved.”
hold them close for as long as you can
How this pastor drives 1,000 miles to serve at this church? #BeTheGIFT #TheBrokenWay
tears at this one & how he’s savings lives: he wanted to be a difference-maker
what can we go do? #TheBrokenWay #BeTheGIFT
please don’t miss this one – what a story here: Upon arriving in the US in 1984 he “couldn’t speak a word of English”
now this former refugee opened his restaurant to feed the homeless on Christmas
you gotta watch: 1 whole year? in just 40 seconds
THIS right here: so he built this food pantry in his lawn for the hungry? and his town followed in a BIG way
kinda undone: a score for the beauty left behind
Post of the week from these parts here:
so who doesn’t want to do that hard thing in the New Year, do that big thing that feels like kinda an impossible thing?
Yeah, do I hear you. So, this:
How To Stop All Procrastination: Dear You Trying to Do that Hard Thing in the New Year
Simply click here for these free printables plus a whole library of free tools
love: we all need someone like this
The God I Know: He’s alive in every moment
As the year draws to a close, it will be hard to forget the difficult moments of 2017.
We’d like to help you remember some of the better ones
Break free with the tender beauty of The Broken Way & Be The Gift … (& get theeself to Target & find the Starbucks card hidden in copies of The Broken Way !)
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
so we did a lot of searching on Google in 2017: here are the top searches that shaped our year
No matter what went down last year… or will go down in the coming year: The victorious King of the ages
on repeat this week: All My Hope is in Jesus
…so in this in-between-time between Christmas & New Year’s? You are trying so hard… deep breath here and remember:
Let something steal your Joy today & you let something steal your strength.
Joy will not just happen today. Joy will not just come unbidden today. Every moment Joy must be taken. Every moment Joy must be chosen.
Every moment Joy must be RECHOSEN. Because His Joy is your OXYGEN, your strength, your brave courage. Not letting anything steal the joy today — because everything needs that kind of strength.
“The joy of the Lord is your strength” Ps 5:11.
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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.
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