Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [06.15.19]
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:
Warren Keelan
Warren Keelan
Warren Keelan
Warren Keelan
you know you need to exhale & enjoy all this wonder
he captures our oceans like no one else I know
because it is ALL kinds of beautiful:
One of the greatest joys of my life was to share these Bibles
The Jesus Storybook Bible — Now Available in 38 Languages
This 16th-Century Italian Church Is Built into the Side of a Cliff
he’s a one of a kind artist – who’s learned how to leave his mark
a book hotel? yup, you can sleep in a suite surrounded by books
Don’t. I. Know. It. So grateful for the love of a nurse…
cheering loudly for him:
He started as a custodian. Now he’s a principal in the same school district.
because some kinds of happiness need no words
Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson
sometimes the best way to honor someone – is to do something honorable
9-year-old boy pays off entire school lunch debt for his class after saving his allowance #BeTheGift #TheBrokenWay
come see how he’s learning to embrace his disability: amazing
An experiment with joy
Happy Father’s Day
Don’t hold back. Tell them now. Why are you grateful?
Unusual grace: How God showed one man a loving path to a family in mourning
an extraordinary invitation to fly
…as a mama of a child with a heart defect & another with Type 1 diabetes —
yep, this is kinda pure gold to love families doing all the medical things
they’re creating a positive change in Haiti
a loving community? makes all the difference
“His answer is ok, be weak, so I can be strong.”
Post of the week from these parts here
…okay, these are tender times, and in the midst of a lot of pain and unspoken broken, maybe this can’t really wait:
#MeToo: How to Raise Boys to be Real Men
YES: agree on Jesus
Maybe in this month of June, we all just need the gift of Joy… a bit of Hope? To stand together — FOR each other — knowing that an act of kindness, giving it forward, can be more powerful than any sword in starting movements that move us all toward Love.
Want the gift of light breaking into all the broken places, into all the places that feel kinda abandoned?
These pages are for you. It’s possible — abundant joy is always possible, especially for you.
Break free with the tender beauty of The Broken Way & Be The Gift …
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
on repeat this week: Good, Good Father
…yeah, when you’re the mother of four sons, when you’re wanting to raise up real men, when you’re reflecting much on fathers and what it means to be a real man, this #MeTooWeToo awakening in the church is not about somebody else…it’s about us. And it’s about time, right about now, for us to stand up and say hard and holy things to all our sons right now because this can’t really wait.
Because real Manhood knows the heart of God for the daughters of His heart.
And unless a man looks to Jesus, a man doesn’t know how to treat a woman.
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 insert Himself at a boardroom table with all the power brokers.
What God chose as best was to make His entry point into the world through the holy space of a woman, to enfold Himself inside of a woman, to be held and nourished and cared for by a woman that’s the jolting truth of how God loves women with His honor.
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 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 . That’s how God loves women with His words.
Christ didn’t demonize women but He accepted the presence of a woman reviled by the self-righteous, and He welcomed the rejected though he lost the respect of the religious. That’s how God loves women with His grace.
When Christ stepped out of that black tomb, He still didn’t choose to first manifest Himself to prestigious officials, religious leaders, the Twelve, or to any man in any position — but instead He revealed Himself first to the women, He entrusted the veracity of His resurrection to the testimony of the women, He offered the privilege of proclaiming Christ as the risen Savior to the women, though no court at the time would accept their testimony. That’s how God loves women with His regard.
And know this…there are more than a few good men.
There are more than a few good men rising, more than a few good men doing hard and holy things, more than a few good men who elevate women because they’re about elevating Christ.
Real men like their Father who laid down His life for His priceless daughters.
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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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