Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins For Your Weekend {09.27.2025}
Happy, happy, happy weekend!
Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this life
just a little bit more this weekend…
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:

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I cannot get over the beauty of old towns on the river with their little cobblestone walks and bridges.
Heart Vitamins for you this week:“God’s Good Design in Creation”Don’t miss this! When You Can’t Keep Going-A Convo on Ministry & CallinGThis is a must listen! You Are Not Alone: Storms in Faithful Christian Experience






















About Violence, Tribalism & The Real Call of God’s People
When grief cuts deeply, words come slowly. There is nothing wrong with this, or with feeling deeply enough to weep. Tears that slowly come can slowly water healing… can grow us into new, redemptive ways of being.
Maybe now isn’t the time to rush forward, but rather to reflect inward: How did we all get here, how are we somehow contributing to what’s happening, who do we personally want to be right now…so we can move toward where we all really want to go?
We mark days like this — us who’ve been marked by deep grief, who are heartbroken and weary that we are still being marked by all this violating violence.
I once had dinner with the theologian Miroslav Volf and we found ourselves sharing how we both, as young children, experienced losing siblings to violent deaths, and Volf living through the violent Balkans wars — this is a world of all kinds of evil and violence and cultural warring, and where is there to turn?
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It’s easy to get lost in the everyday moments of our lives feeling like God isn’t near and we aren’t always sure how to talk to Him like we want to. Whether we are struggling with specific circumstances or in a season of thriving, we are all looking for the same thing: encouragement to keep going and stay focused on God’s goodness in our lives.
In this heartfelt collection of 52 devotions, bestselling author Sarah Molitor shares her personal experiences of witnessing God’s work in her life, inviting readers to embark on their own journey of connecting with God through prayer.

It’s true: heartache, grief, suffering, and obstacles—they all come in waves. There is no controlling life’s storms; there is only learning the way to walk through the waves.
In WayMaker, bestselling author Ann Voskamp hands us a map that makes meaning of life and shows the way through to the places we’ve only dreamed of reaching. In the face of suffering through seemingly unbearable situations, we can rest in the fact that we are not alone.

No matter what it is you want in life, the difference between success and failure is resilience. In Rules of Resilience, Valorie teaches you how to build or strengthen your own personal resilience system, offering practical strategies you can employ immediately to conquer obstacles, overcome setbacks, achieve greater happiness, and succeed at higher levels than ever before. She also
reveals how to build a level of mental and emotional fitness and strength that will transform your work, relationships, finances, and healthconsolidates intriguing research into easy-to-remember rules that can be put into practice right awayguides you through any current or potential challenge, enabling you to conquer obstacles and achieve your life goals in a healthy and meaningful way
If you’re tired, overwhelmed, or wondering if you’re doing this parenting thing right at all, this practical and encouraging book is for you.
Beloved author of Memory Making Mom Jessica Smartt is right there with you in the trenches of parenting and family life. She has great news: a strong family culture has nothing to do with flawless behavior, a Pinterest-perfect home, or continual harmony. In Come on Home, Jessica will equip parents to create the family they long for, with the people in their actual homes. It’s never too late to build a strong family.

It’s easy for everything in our lives to seem fine on the surface. But deep down inside, there’s often another story at play—one of overwhelm, stress and heartache, of finding ourselves stuck in old patterns. Rather than feeling the weight of it all, it’s easier to spend our days on autopilot, ignoring the noise inside.
But what if the peace and relief we most lo n g for comes from tuning in with what’s happening inside, instead of tuning it out?

In her newest book Motherhood is Not Your Highest Calling, Vicki addresses the unattainable expectations that often burden mothers and redirects the focus to God’s grace which covers our shortcomings.
Vicki seeks to remind her readers that our identities are not found in motherhood, but in God alone and who we are in Him.
Something to Add to your calendar? Embracing You with Ann Voskamp
WHAT IF… life expectations that you’ve been handed, that define success, fulfillment, and meaning in ways that do not correspond with the actual topography and reality of your life, leave you looking for a better way?
Join us for an uplifting evening with four-time NYT Best Selling Author Ann Voskamp.
Grab your ticket here!Hope Story Conference
We’re gathering for our 8th annual Writer’s Conference in beautiful Charlotte, NC on January 29-31, 2026, and we’d love you to join us! Experience three unforgettable days designed to awaken your words, strengthen your voice, and surround you with a community who believes in the power of story.
Across the weekend, you’ll hear best selling authors and keynote voices, learn from workshop presenters who will help refine your craft, and step into quiet writing rooms where inspiration becomes practice. Thursday night we’ll pause for Celebrate Your Story—a joyful evening where we recognize the milestones of our Hope*Books authors and invite everyone in the room to see what’s possible for their own writing journey.
This is more than another event. It’s a gathering designed to move your writing forward.
You don’t want to miss this! Grab your ticket here! Come and be “Loved to Life”


Pick up Loved to Life: A 40-Day VISUAL Pilgrimage with Jesus, that will:
give you enlightening insights to calm your real worriesground your identity in who you really are, regardless of failuresspeak to your deepest doubts in a profoundly steading wayand walk you in fresh, intimate ways with Jesus, Love Himself, that will grow your soul into real LIFEThe Broken way is 30% off right now!!





Maybe enjoy the weekend by making a cozy meal and settling down with a good cup of coffee…
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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