Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [12.12.15]

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:

Kristen Kill 
Kristen Kill 
Kristen Kill

 There is the loveliest quiet to be had if you’d like…

yep, dare you not to laugh (keep your eye on the dog on the right)

go ahead and have one of those days

Change Please

brilliant! 

possibilities for friendship exist where you’d never expect them. ‘Tis the season to look for them

Eve and Ruth Oosterman – “Collaborations with my Toddler”
Eve and Ruth Oosterman – “Collaborations with my Toddler”

possibilities for beauty are everywhere — with anyone

one note. changed his perspective on parenting

a town tries to absolutely eradicate any possibility of this 

possibilities for fun? are about everywhere. SERIOUSLY.

LOOK AT YOU  BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE! 
 remember that Giveaway from last week?

Where we invited you to share how you & your beautiful people are  Unwrapping The Greatest Gift and savoring The Greatest Gift?

You’re choosing to focus on Him, to not miss Him this year & bravely have The Greatest Christmas this year!

Thrilled for Giveaway Winners of The Audio CD Edition of Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: Meaghan B., Heather M., Kris C.

Love…

Spotted on Instagram : Yeah, that. 

okay, no stress allowed —  because it’s just all about sharing, that’s all

Free gift tags and gift boxes!

Click over to The Greatest Christmas and 

Check out our whole library of free printable ornaments, Christmas cards,

gift tags, gifts boxes, scavenger hunt, Sticky Notes for Your Soul, Advent Calendars  and more —

our gift to you for The Greatest Christmas! 

this woman is just too much. Couldn’t love this more! 

more joy, please

Justine Bowen Facebook

“Negative will always make the news but positive rarely ever does. Today, I couldn’t be more thankful…”

glory

Want to preach Gospel to yourself through what can be the hard & hectic month of December?

Yeah, you and me both — I’m such a mess with chronic soul amnesia, who has to constantly evangelize myself everyday, preach Gospel back to myself every day — so I scratched out these because I desperately needed them for me: free 25 No-Stress Manifestos for every day of December,

Like an Advent Calendar for Big People, so we unwrap *Jesus* & not *stress*, so we unwrap the joy of the Gospel and not more of the weight of this world … just for you:

Free Stress-Free Holiday Sticky Notes for Your Soul, right here: No Stress Holiday Manifesto

 because there’s always the possibility of: Alleluia

Post of the Week from these parts here

and, honestly, who doesn’t need a whole lot of HOPE these days

“when you’re hoping for things to change for the better”

this completely undid us here

don’t leave the internet without watching this. 

because this is happening tomorrow

so go sign you & your people right here 

Millions of refugees will never leave the Middle East. Love them. Because we’re not guided by fear but by 

by Scripture and one person named Jesus Christ, who He Himself was a refugee.

 The Farmer and I watched this twice. Listened to the words.  

Because that’s part of the Christmas story: the Jesus was a child refugee.

Yes: “If you are missing a loved one this Christmas season,

okay, thinking every kid should say this pledge every morning (WOW!)

SURPRISE! undone

Weary mamas? Wound-up kids? This December? Could be The Greatest Christmas!

A gift of home …  so I choked up on this one. Twice. 

 just pure beauty

okay, maybe right now? we just need to hear it like a whisper in the midst of all the noise:

“What was intended to tear you apart– God intends it to set you apart.

What has torn you — God makes a thin place to see glory.

The places where you’re torn to pieces can be thin places where you touch the peace of God.

God is never absent, 

never impotent,

never distant.

You can never be undone.

No matter what intends to harm you?

God’s arms have you.”

If God can transfigure the greatest evil into the greatest Gift, He intends to turn whatever you’re experiencing now into a gift. You cannot be undone.

And we could feel it right now– His everlasting arms underneath of us…

~excerpt from The Greatest Gift

[ print’s free for you here ]

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.