Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [07.18.15]

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:

Suya Imagens

who doesn’t really need a 5 minute vacation right off the top?

meeting Elisabeth Elliot

“She taught me how to love the Savior, how to die to myself, how to love my husband and children, how to do the next thing.” This

perhaps the most perfect accidental flip?

Justin Morris Photography

 okay, who can’t be inspired by this —  at 101?!

yeah, so let’s go make a difference

so what if we all made unlikely friends 

Guillaume Amat

seriously — this is crazy fascinating

yeah, what is love really? answers from 0 t0 105…

Piano Around the World

so I wanna do a bit of this when I grow up

in a league of their own – I need this kind of inspiring

teachers caring way outside of the box like — yep, #worldchangers

pretty amazing

Photos courtesy of We Are Family DC

 what if we all did this? really, really great things happening here… love! 

 

Réhahn Photography
Réhahn Photography
Réhahn Photography

really —  I wanna visit a village like this — who’s in? 

found this fascinating

..yeah, so not easy to talk about… but you can find yourself in real dark places.

Darker than you ever imagined… darker than anyone even knows:

when you want to find hidden graces in the dark places

one absolutely gorgeous heart 

So our lovely farm girl, Hope? She’s in Rwanda with Africa New Life   … and my mama heart’s been bursting at what God’s doing and I’ve been pretty undone with what’s happening 

Want to be part of the story with our Hope-girl?  

God does stuff like this 

Post of the Week from these parts here:

… yeah, you & me both.

When you’re really done with that comparison thief robbing you of joy?

3 Words that will arrest comparison….  just stop it right in its tracks

so they set out to do a big thing — must see

searching for what matters

Light

“In 2014, a woman tweeted that she would be faced with “a real ethical dillema” if she became pregnant with a baby with Down Syndrome. Richard Dawkins responed “Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice.”

Also in 2014, we had a beautiful little girl with Down Syndrome and two heart conditions. We named her Lucette, which means ‘light.” Lucie has taught us how much every life matters.

This song is for her and all the beautiful people on this planet with special needs.

We think that you make this world a better place.”

[ print’s free for you here ]

Hey Soul? yeah, true, it may not feel like it, but really —

Today’s a new hope, and you’re being remade & made new, and He’s cupping your chin right now & turning your face toward His and the sun: “My loyal love for you can’t run out, My merciful love for you could never dry up.They’re created new for you every single morning. My faithfulness to you is great.” [Lamentations 3:22 MSG]

And it’s right out of His Word, what all us Brave will just keep saying today:

“I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).” [Lam.3:24MSG]
Yesterday’s packed away with grace, and Today’s a fresh day with fresh hope, fresh possibilities, a new you, a new falling in love with God, a new refrain playing on gentle repeat in our head — ‘We’re sticking with you, God.’

When morning breaks,

it breaks all of the mistakes of yesterday,

breaks right through our dome of dark —

so all His fresh mercies can flood in.

The disease of not-enough… is cured when you give thanks for more than enough grace.

#PreachingGospeltoMyself #FreshHope

[excerpted from our devotions in our little Facebook community … come join us?]

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

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