Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [08.29.15]

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:

Jakub Polomski
Jakub Polomski
Jakub Polomski

somedays you just need to get away. Today’s your day? okay, you & me, right now —

let’s get away right here & let everything just go quiet 

yep — this 250lb red ball was on the loose this week…

Bibliobicicleta

really — doesn’t every street, every weekend need a pop-up bicycle library?

all work can become works of art

okay, now that’s a livestream: seen this humming bird feeding her babies?

who doesn’t need a welcome like this?

Hurricane Katrina photos: then and now – 10 years later. Time. Time is a bewildering thing

oh, yeah — go ahead and try not to cheer

Arthur Garcia-Clemente

so…did you know that….?

Really — this one was read by every single person in our house #gamechanger

the kids & you need to sit down & watch this one: Brain Food

Stuart Palley
Stuart Palley
Stuart Palley

beautiful & terrifying — and the brave who walk straight into it 

 thinking maybe we all need a whale of a heart these days?

In Christ, we are not held to a standard of perfection — we are held close by His arms of Grace.

And there is no greater relief to be found in all the world:

There is always more grace in Christ than there is guilt in us.

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dare you not to smile…

Bellerby & Co. Globemakers

 never seen the world quite like this? 

a first day of kindergarten that was … um… outside of the box

 oh, you know. just a Jaguar cub. just making a little public debut this week

so…did you know that?

How long does it take to read well known books? 

you could knock off a few of these this wkend? 

100 cameras.  given to the homeless. what they captured is sorta like heart fireworks …

uhhhh…. surprise!

 when you’re a survivor

I, mean, really…  Instagram of the Week Here

now…  this is sportsmanship

Post of the Week from these parts here:

… yeah, honest — about totally ripped me up, this one:

“you know they’re laughing at us, right?

on the trivialization, monetization & humiliation of the Gospel…”

because the real truth of it is, every single one of us, we all belong to each other

 yeah, let’s throw age out the window

okay, sign us up. Never get over how there are world changers everywhere

 yeah, there ain’t one of us that doesn’t need a fresh start

no one like You

[ print’s free for you here ]

Lord, yep, fear can’t get to us, panic can’t upend us, worry can’t undo us — because when we exhale, we can hear You like a warm breath:

“I am with you. There’s no need to fear the big things, the little things, anything, for I’m your God. I’ll give you strength when the weight of it all wears you down, I’ll help you when you’re hurting, when everyone’s hurting, I’ll hold you steady when everything wildly tilts, I’ll keep a firm grip on you — so you can rest tonight, because you are held.”

For worry is the façade of taking action when prayer really is.

And all the people held on to each other because they belonged to each other and they all beheld a Grace

that held them all.

In the name of Jesus, the only One who ever loved us to death and back to the real & forever life,

Amen.

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[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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