Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [03.22.14]

These 12 people? All way out of comfort zones. #LiveBraveFaith

your free invitation to exhale:

every Saturday needs a pause for a mini-vacation

Love? How do you see it? How do you frame it? 

27 photographs from all over the world capturing a moment of pure & powerful love

– literally breath taking

Parenting Brave: “Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob was diagnosed with autism when he was 2, and doctors said he would never speak. When teachers told her there was no hope, she took her own path.

Instead of focusing on Jacob’s limitations, Kristine nurtured his interests. Now her 15-year-old son is on track to win a Nobel Prize for his work in theoretical physics.

“It’s really important that when you have a label, you don’t let that label define you. What are your children good at? Let that define them. Create motivations that are self-driven. Let them pursue what they love.” “

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How is my Lent about #40LessMeMoreHim? 

“The orange jail scrubs are to enhance my solidarity with those who truly suffer.”

#40LessMeMoreHim

67 years of True Love

“Ninety-one-year-old Art Shay has been telling stories with his camera for more than 60 years. Working mostly for LIFE Magazine, he captured an amazing roster of subjects, from Kennedy to Ali; from Eleanor Roosevelt to Elizabeth Taylor.

But page through the thousands of stills and one story stands out. Art’s focus was often squarely on Florence, his wife.” “A photograph is a biography of a moment.” Strung together, they chart a lifetime….”

Take biographies of moments this weekend?

Where is the light falling where you are?  A gallery of Lovers of Light

A message from Kid President:

“You were made from love, to be love, to spread love.”

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A love like no other…  this. 

what unlikely wonders can happen when you do the unexpected?

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Because wonder is all around us… go slow here and linger

One Photo a day for nine months.

It’s true for all of us: Every day — adding up to something Pretty Extraordinary.

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Baylor Basketball: What looks like Losing… is winning far bigger than most know

How your life may look like you’re losing — but you’re actually winning Big

Post of the Week from here:

The One Thing You Absolutely Have to Get Rid of Today #LetGoOfTheLie

What’s playing on repeat in my head, again and again, because I have got to get the truth of it down into my bones: that spoken word poem with the wondrous Amena Brown Owen : “ This is Us: The #EstherGeneration.” {Come RE:Live all of the IF:Gathering with the complete digital download of the IF:Gathering?}

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What’s on the top of the stack at the Farm: 

Powerful, compelling reads, preparing the heart for Easter

The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived

The Knowledge of the Holy

The Beauty of Aged Love: the wonder of couples married more than 50 years

“Little by little we age – but we don’t change in our hearts. Love gets stronger. That is the way I feel.”

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Hey Soul? Today?  ”Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions & praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns– It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life” Phil.4:6-7 MSG 

When you let the weight of worries at the centre of your life be displaced by Christ, your life takes wing. Christ at the center of your life displaces gravity: Worries lose all weight.



Worry is merely the illusion of taking action– when prayer really is. Worry is what leaves your wheels spinning. It’s prayer that puts your life into drive – in the right direction. Toward Christ. Today, worry is your warning system that it’s time to really do something: pray.

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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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