Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [11.21.15]

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:

AV Wakefield / Instagram
AV Wakefield / Instagram
AV Wakefield / Instagram

you need a soul reset right here

too fun

Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson
Emily Gibson

there is beauty everywhere

rescue

greatest dad!

Seb Janiak – Mimesis – Aphyllae Maleakht, 2014. Chromogenic print. Format 180 x 180cm (70.9 x 70.9 in)
Seb Janick – Mimesis – Fecunditatis, 2014. Chromogenic print. Format 180 x 180cm (70.9 x 70.9 in)
Seb Janick – Mimesis – Precognitus Christium, 2014. Chromogenic print. Format 180 x 180cm (70.9 x 70.9 in)

really: for real 

one life. one hamster.

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okay, you’ve gotta see these kids: good kid moments caught on camera

uhhhhh…. 14 versions of a….  whaaa? 

just — wow

NBCToday

one beautiful memory. 4,000 miles from home

sit back. amazing coming your way.

 we can do hard & holy things — we can 

oh yeah — things just got really real right here: 

yada, yada, yada: a secret way to cope

when you are pretty much sick of the world, the holidays & a crazy life

the next pair of shoes your hard days need

Kevin Houston

Marching band dreams? Wheelchair? Look — we can all do hard & holy things 

he’s flying with a —  jetpack? who’ up next?

2 winners at the finish of this marathon #HARDANDHOLYTHINGS

the most stunning river in the world?

okay, lots of Myths Going Around About the Refugee Process 

 be one of the ones who knows facts to speak to fear

not lying — best clip I’ve seen in years

25 free coloring ornaments for the kids – one for every day of Advent!

Click over to The Greatest Christmas and check out our whole library of free printable ornaments,

cards, gift tags, gifts boxes, Advent Calendars and more —

Lauren Nassef

“What My Mother Wanted Us to Pack”

wait. whaaaaa? only 8 days left until Advent? 

are you ready for your Night before Advent party & all of these free printables!?

our gift to you for The Greatest Christmas!

Prepared to make this the Simplest, Greatest Christmas?  

The Perfect Christmas Gift is Meaning — & not Missing Him this year.

Simple. Easy. & Meaningful: Right Here.

beautiful

How One Unlikely Man Stopped the Stealing of Thanksgiving:

bad year? hard to give thanks? okay: read this

we gotta lean on each other

Post of the Week from these parts here:

I’m thinking it’s been a brutal couple of days for all of us?

I got a fever & lost my voice & it’s felt like the whole world’s burning down around all of us…

& then when my voice came back… this is what came:

How to Live in a World Terroris …  a Love Letter About Beautiful People & & Living & Loving Large   Yeah, I’m a fool who loves you all & this whole busted world & I can’t stop loving all of you, all the beautiful people, a fire in my bones that can’t be stomped out by any inferno of news & in a world with terrorists: I’m telling you, there’s a movement of ‪#‎Giftivists‬

A Love Letter About Beautiful People & Living & Loving Large in a World Terrorists

heroes — and the miracle baby

World Relief

Jesus The Refugee

thinking about it:  it’s that time of year when we tell the Story of a Middle Eastern refugee family, feeling from a bloody genocide of babies, seeking refuge & someone to make room

the man who may have cured more people of blindness than anyone in history

100,000 people. In 5 minutes. for $25. Unbelievable!

gorgeous acoustic mashup of ‘Roar’ and ‘Brave’ —

for that hard & holy thing you are going to do today

King of the world – You’re the One Who holds it all

Okay! Today?! We’re going after JOY!

Not because we have it all together or not because it’s all going to go perfect, but simply because: Choosing an ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE is how we KEEP CHOOSING JOY!

Because: Gratefulness is not what you feel AFTER times of joyfulness — Gratefulness is what you have to CHOOSE to GET to times of joyfulness.

The bottom line is: Being grateful IS WHAT MAKES YOU joyful. 

Gratitude in our circumstances — is what changes our circumstances.

‪#‎PreachingGospelToMyself‬

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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