Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [12.19.15]

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:

Mary Anne Morgan
Mary Anne Morgan
Mary Anne Morgan 

if your soul needs to inhale some beauty

Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

“I didn’t know if I was going to post this or not, but I decided to. I borrowed this idea from another RAKtivist, to write a thank you card for the flight crew and have other passengers sign it. It was SO rewarding to see other normal passengers participate in improving someone’s day, and the happiness from the flight crew. Travel, especially flying can be a hassle, and this really just made me so happy. I plan to do it at least once a trip…

People need to know they are appreciated.”

and this made us smile – Daffy … in her festive foursie?

okay? so… uh… who took that cookie off the counter?

William Patino 
William Patino
William Patino

all of this splendor in a 10 day journey through Iceland

“Know that I am God … Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at Me…” Ps.46:10MSG

it’s the best time of year to be united again…

Kimberly Grandinette / Facebook

 who was expecting this?

rescued- – she’s now a thriving mama

Jessica Bowe 

sometimes you’re at the right place at the right time — and it’s all pretty wondrous

yeah… waiting on love

viralfhd

Okay, the Farmer & I were pretty stunned with some of these:

some of the most amazing historical photos most likely never seen before

and then it was the last line of this piece that hooked me:

“When women move forward, the world moves forward with them.”

 pretty wonderful, eh?

Marcus Vasquez

the best small town’s for Christmas

O’ Holy Night

Kid having a bad day. And the Prime Minister’s walking by:

Sometimes, all you need is someone to listen

Prisoner dads. Their Kids. And that feeling of being embraced by your father… can last forever

Join me on this podcast with Susie Larson as we talk about the true meaning of the season 

go ahead and let your heart split with the happy here – a must see

“they have so much love for us” Exactly

glory

wrapping up the last of the gifts here —

one gift that is One Thousand Gifts …

The Greatest Gift … &  Unwrapping The Greatest Gift —

giving all the happiest gifts, gifts, gifts,  of more Jesus this year

 Also GIDDY to offer: 25 FREE Full-Color Christmas Story Ornaments — that tell the only Story that shatters all the dark.

crazy JOY to the world…

Jonathan Rodgers

Spotted on Instagram

never a Christmas without this one… absolutely exquisite

free 25 No-Stress Manifestos for every day of December,

“You are trying so hard. And yeah, I get why you want to set the to-do list out front & center today. Or that huge problem that has to be overcome. But let’s just exhale slow and simply set up the day with this gentle soul-talk:

I will focus on Jesus today, 

just Jesus. 

Simply set your focus on the Lord — He’s got you today & you. can’t. be. shaken…”

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

we can have eyes, but not really see. see the gift? powerful

… fear can sneak up right behind you & lock you in one strangling chokehold. And then?

Then you can turn around & CRUSH ALL THAT FEAR. 

sharing some unconditional love with a grieving family

so a bit of what I did this summer:

Read the One Thousand Gifts Devotional out loud for you  — so I’ll read to you while you’re in the car, washing dishes, or out taking a run …. 60 Days, 60 Day Devotional, 60 Days in the New Year: I’ll read aloud & we’ll do life together & He’ll change the new year…

and then we wrapped up One Thousand Gifts in a brown leather-like edition …. (maybe for some men in your life?)

how these kids gave up what they wanted for Christmas – because family matters

O Come, Let Us Adore Him…

This is the face of a refugee. A 10 year old Iraqi Christian refugee. The kids watched twice.

though it’s been a hard year — yet… even this

Mary, did you know? This child that you’ve delivered, would soon deliver you?

.. turns out? Worry is always belief gone wrong. 

Because some part of your heart doesn’t believe that God will get it right.  

But Peace is belief that exhales.

Because your heart believes that God’s love is everywhere – like air. It’d be quite something — for us all to breathe deep peace & exhale…

~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

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