Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [10.24.15]

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:

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 farm girl loves fields. you have gotta come walk with me

oh, yeah — there are days like this

Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson

after the week you’ve had —  can I just lean over & hand you a quiet, perfect walk in a box? 

 I’ve felt just like this about rain before, I have

 now, this is how it’s done, people — just like this 

now this is just straight up way too much fun 

 
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 our boys really do think this is really happening

Winning Image- The eye of a honeybee (Apis mellifera) covered in dandelion pollen (120x) by Ralph Claus Grimm, Queensland, Australia
7th Place Evan Darling Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, New York, USA Starfish imaged using confocal microscopy (10x) Confocal
10th Place- Clam shrimp (Cyzicus mexicanus), live specimen (25x) by Ian Gardiner, Alberta, Canada
13th Place- Tentacles of a carnivorous plant (Drosera sp.) (20x) by Jose Almodovar, Puerto Rico, USA

okay — did you catch that? that up there is the eyeball of a bee!

look — just go be slack-jaw awed by the Nikon Small World competition:

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly just became the new record holder for most time in space by a US astronaut

pretty amazing, huh?

so the one guy said he was lonely. Double Dog Dare you to respond like this

okay, c’mon.  how did he just do that?

Templo de Quechula in Chiapas, Mexico, revealed this month due to drought (photo by René de Jesús, courtesy Notimex)

true story:  sometimes in the middle of your drought —

you find your faith resurface in surprising ways 

you’ve got this: go dream impossibly big things

Heather Saunders
Heather Saunders 
Heather Saunders 
Heather Saunders

 three dozen floral designers. one abandoned house. 36,000 flowers. Have you seen this?

nothing is beyond making into beauty 

 the book of Romans — not like you’ve ever experienced it before

officer caught completely red handed: going above and beyond...

Books on the Stack at the Farm

 

 

Parable Treasury, by Liz Curtiz Higgs:

so this is ridiculous. Our kids grew up on these parable stories from Liz Curtis Higgs. Hands down favourites that they asked me to read to them a million times. And literally: More than 1 million of these parable stories have been sold — so there’s the proof: These are classics. Childhood is made of the stuff of these wondrous stories, one for each eason — And now they’ve been compiled into one gorgeous, huge, padded treasury book — for $8.79. How is that even possible?

Any child you’d like to have a gift for a birthday, a holiday, or any “I just love you” day — buy a stack of these to have on hand. I promise you: Kids will absolutely love you — and your wallet will be thrilled. 

You’re Welcome.  

inspired

aren’t they absolutely darling? and then? then they go ahead & play  the track from “Up” —

complete with  Carl’s tennis-ball cane, the “Adventure Book” and even a “Squirrel!” reaction from the family dog.

everyone was a winner that night… so maybe somebody did or did not get choked up over this one 

Jonathan Phillips

 okay, so this bride got brave & cancelled her wedding at the last minute — (these things happen)

and straight up: what comes next is pretty extraordinary…

you know, there really are heroes & angels & glory around us everywhere, you know? 

a face, a hand, and a heart that stayed… you have gotta watch this

just….for every single one of us, no matter what: amazing grace…

… behind closed doors & behind brave smiles, there’s a whole bunch of us marching on private battles nobody knows about, climbing hard mountains that nobody sees, wrestling tough things that nobody has any idea about. But us? We do hard & holy things.

We stay in play. We stay in the game. We stay in Him. Because the really mattering part? The mattering part is that:

Blessed is the one who perseveres & does the hard things. 

Tough times never last but those who hang on tight to God always do.

Dare to fully live!

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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

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