Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [06.29.19]

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:

Alex Robciuc 
Alex Robciuc 
Alex Robciuc 

deeply exhale and surround yourself with beauty this weekend –

and his work he shares with us here? Too good to miss…

yup, at 94?!!? she’s doing this…

What can we go do today?!

such a brilliant idea!  Rinse, read, repeat.

Come see how these laundromats are becoming libraries 

cheering wildly: How this Teacher is Making Kindness Part of the Curriculum #BeTheGift #TheBrokenWay

This 13-year-old opened a bakery.

For every cupcake he sells, he gives one to the homeless 

so could you do this? they’re jumping as much as they can

“View of the Sea at Scheveningen” (1882). (Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Public domain])

so thought this was interesting: 5 Real-Life Locations That Inspired Vincent van Gogh’s Paintings

a class of 1 – the last student from a small, remote island school graduates

Angela Moulton
Angela Moulton
Angela Moulton

couldn’t take my eyes off of her work here

this artist uses thick brushstrokes to create her paintings 

Want to Raise Successful Kids?

They’re saying we should do these 5 things every day

just kinda beautiful: when family is together under one roof

LOVE what she is doing here: looking for MORE GOOD!

She’s been on a three-year road trip documenting acts of human kindness

Cannot WAIT to listen! THRILLING!

The Made for This Podcast with Jennie Allen releases July 1st! Two episodes release each week – one episode of Jennie teaching through Philippians and one interview.

Short. Fun. Truth. Real conversation about the struggles we face and the God that sets us free.

Set free and running with God, this is what you were made for. You were made for connection.

tears at his story: “Once you find your fit, you find your calling, then your purpose.”

This man shares his Journey from prison to college graduation

Anita Demianowicz  / 
Anita Demianowicz
Anita Demianowicz 

so she traveled around the world to take photos of the most beautiful sunsets and sunrises

stunning — just had to share

glory, glory, glory

Safe to Feel Deeply

How the Gospel Redeems Our Feelings

when you see love on a battle field

what a story here: please don’t miss this one…

“no matter how broken you are, no matter how lost, keep going…”

“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down in life, it’s about how many times you get back up that truly determines your quality of life.”

Post of the week from these parts here

…So kinda brimmed and spilled through this whole thing. Because everyone enters marriage expecting a forever thing — yet marriages are fragile things.

And I’ve known it…on some pitch black roads when I didn’t know where to turn or how to keep going, and undoubtedly, it could all gone another way, but it’s our story, in defiant spite of me:

What is the Secret Miracle of Marriage (And About Marriage Renewal Vows)

Your flourishing is going to happen with God, so know who He is.

What do you do when you wake up and feel like you’re not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart?

In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness.

Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world?  These tender devotionals dare us to embrace any and all brokenness as a gift that moves us closer to the heart of God. 

This gentle book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul. 

Order Your Way to Abundance Here

on repeat this week: With You

[ Print’s FREE here: ]

…just for today — DO. NOT. WORRY. “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.” Matt6:34MSG

Just for today: Be a prayer warrior–not a panicked worrier.

Worry is just the facade of taking action — when prayer really is.

Bottom line — keep breathing deep and give your worries to God — He’ll give you His peace.

His Word gently lifts our chins:

“The Lord bless you & keep you;

the Lord make His face to shine upon you & be gracious to you;

the Lord lift up His countenance upon you & give you peace.” Nu.6

 

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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.