Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [10.03.15]

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:

Pascal Mannaerts
Pascal Mannaerts
Pascal Mannaerts

 exhale in the quiet of the last of only 40 remaining families 

of reindeer herders in Mongolia – must see

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 so —  the kids thought these perfectly timed photos were pretty hilarious

…and then this cat steps in to handle the barking

Sam Yeldham

completely unplanned — photographers captures stunning photos of bride and groom

sometimes the most unplanned moments? are the most perfect ones 

yep, the ref was ok — and the kick counted!

the kids said? these were their favourite videos of the week… an unnamed kid here teared up too 

so this Husband just weeps like a baby when he finds out wife is pregnant after 17 years of trying…

Getting ready for dinner one night, she asked him to open the oven an take a look inside.
He opened the oven, where she placed ultrasound photos in the oven — right next to a package of buns.

After 17 years…. #ALWAYSHOPE

Great Homeschool Conventions –
Registration is Now Open!

 Humbled to be sharing at two of these events next year — can we cross paths? 

March 17-19 in Forth Worth, TX and March 31-April 2 in Cincinnati, OH

Why attend a Great Homeschool Conventions event? Each year, they begin to build the coming year’s event with that question in mind and work to give you compelling reasons to attend. They love their homeschooling families! It is as simple as that. They want to bring the very best to you, and strive to provide top-notch homeschool conventions which encourage, inspire, and educate homeschooling families to continue to do what they do best: homeschool!

This coming year’s events are packed with great speakers, a huge exhibit hall, and family-friendly special events.

Register and let’s connect! I’d love to encourage you! 

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Joni Niemelä

raindrops captured on a macro scale – His glory is everywhere

why you’ve got to make a new friend

Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson

sometimes my soul just need to sit with His beauty 

a decade long search finally ends – a caring stranger is now a friend

“…just as we do not see the wind that ushers in the clouds,

we do not see the full details of God’s greater plan.

But make no mistake: God is in control. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.”

one farmer with cancer. one community that moves in to take off his harvest. 

stuff like this? completely undone #farmerswife

who knew about this kind of phenomenon?

okay. Here’s your sign: Go. Be. Brave. #DoThatHardThing

Fishtails/Reddit

Holy, Holy, Holy — 92 yr old meets 2 day old great grandchild – this holy moment

a police thank you party – one selfless act of love

rest. just rest & enjoy this

Jennifer Dukes Lee

yes – the extravagant invitation we’ve all be waiting for — #TellHisStory

okay, so I want to be doing this at 90 

15 ways to live compassionately as a family – maybe choose just one?

IF: The Gathering 2016 – February 5-6 – A Global Gathering of Women

Registration opens in 3 Days!

The world around us feels like it is crumbling and almost nothing seems certain, until we look to Jesus and see that our Hope is very clear and certain. He didn’t just give us salvation—Jesus is our salvation and the example of what it means to live in the fullness of grace and truth.

Rather than shrink back, it is time to love like Jesus loved, serve like Jesus served, pray like Jesus prayed, and pursue holiness like Jesus pursued it.

This February 5-6, join us? 

how she is showing God’s love to others? must see

 family  — why we’ve got to keep holding on to each other 

more than a moving story: a true life lesson

[ print’s free for you here ]

Hey soul? It’s a good day to be alive,

it’s a good day to begin again,

it’s a good day to believe & hope & love & trust

that you are safe & all is always well because you are always held.

It’s a good day to just, no matter what comes: Let joy live loud in your soul!

‪#‎PreachingGospelToMyself‬ ‪#‎1000Gifts‬

Dare to fully live!

‪[excerpted from our daily devotions in our 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

Share Whatever Is Good.