Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [11.16.19]

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 & your people right here:

Mary Anne Morgan 
Mary Anne Morgan 
Mary Anne Morgan 
Mary Anne Morgan
Mary Anne Morgan 

pause and ponder the moments in your weekend

Riikka Hedman and Sampy 
Riikka Hedman and Sampy
Riikka Hedman and Sampy

Finnish Cats Living Their Best Winter Life

because some of us need an everyday hero

too good: at 14? For each cupcake this baker sells, he gives one away to someone in need

after class? this 10 year old is an in-demand working artist

Takka Jordan/ Twitter 

yes: Teen prays for rival player whose mom is fighting cancer

Absolutely Stunning Street Transformations? had to share

for everyone who loves their local library: Why Libraries Have a Public Spirit That Most Museums Lack

anyone else wanna go visit here!?

Stone Artist Akie / Instagram 
Stone Artist Akie / Instagram
Stone Artist Akie / Instagram

look what this artist can do with an ordinary stone



Nothing but the blood of Jesus…

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we couldn’t help but smile with her: this story will encourage you to get up and out this weekend

Inspiring Millennials: How This 25-Year-Old Built a School for Children in Poverty

glory, glory, glory

Starting Monday! Are you in?!?

Our friends at FaithGateway have graciously chosen One Thousand Gifts as their next FREE (!!!) online Bible study, beginning Monday, November 18th and leading right up to Christmas.

I’ll be helping to start things off on Monday, live on my FB page at 9pm EST! It would be a grace to meet you there!

We are inviting you to walk all over again – or maybe for the very first time? – through the discipline of counting gifts and finding joy – right. where. you. are!

Sign up now for the FREE One Thousand Gifts Online Bible Study, led by FaithGateway, and you’ll get access to the videos, and a whole bundle of free printables and goodies, too!

I hope you will join in this life-changing, life-transforming opportunity that could change the rest of your life!

never, ever forget…the wonder of sight

middle schooler is thriving as a cellist after a group of dedicated high school students banded together to make her a prosthetic arm

“I learned that people are willing to help, and that it’s okay to be different”

never, ever, give up

an extraordinary story of compassion … and healing. #BeTheGift #TheBrokenWay

thank you, John Piper…Grace Is Power, Not Just Pardon

Post of the week from these parts here

World Kindness Day! And, straight up, from this farmer’s wife who misses some friendships & deeply understands the fragility of friendships — & who believes it’s never too late to rewrite the story you tell yourself in your head about you and friendship:

How to Find & Make Good Friends
(#WorldKindnessDay: Celebrating Friendship)

tears… a love of 80 years

Books for soul healing

Need freedom not only beyond the fear & pain, but actually  within it? The Broken Way 

How do you find the way that lets you become what you hope to be? 60 steps from heart-weary brokenness to Christ-focused abundance: The Way of Abundance

Give yourself the gift of grace that He already has — and give yourself the beauty of: Be the Gift

The answer to anxiety is the adoration of Christ… and my story of just that: One Thousand Gifts 

and the 60 DAY DEVOTIONAL with 1000 numbered lines to count your #1000gifts: One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflecting on Finding Everyday Graces

on repeat this week: Alive

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“Don’t be anxious or get discouraged. God, my God, is with you in this; He won’t walk off & leave you in the lurch. He’s at your side ” 1Chron.28-20 MSG

“Stay alert, with your eyes wide open in gratitude.” Col.4:2MSG

No matter what’s coming at you today, the thing is:

No amount of regret changes the past,

No amount of anxiety changes the future,

Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.

#1000gifts

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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.