Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [10.10.20]

Happy, happy, happy weekend!
Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories 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 & your people right here:

she captures our world like no one else I know

because we all need a friend

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I have to tell you about some amazing people in our community. The owners of the local Grocery Outlet saw my diy desk video and asked me if i could make some desks for them. They wanted to donate them to the local schools for the kids who are in need because of distant learning. I didn't hesitate to help them out. They asked for 25 desks to start but the need was great so we upped it to 35!!! My wonderful wife helped me through the whole thing and even surprised me with four desks she made while I was at work. The owners wanted to keep it low key but I just have to let others know how much local business means to a community like ours. Thank you Karin and David for being wonderful people. #supportsmallbusiness #groceryoutlet

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A big-hearted dad in Lemoore, California, wants every child in his community to have their own work station

‘I’ve gotten thousands of messages:’ he builds desks for students who need them

you’ve got to come meet her: a diver known as the ‘mother of sharks’

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(London, England): Romeo Cox, 11, reunited with his “granny” Rosemary on Sunday after traveling by foot, bike and sea 1,700 miles between Palermo Italy and London England. Accompanied by his father, Romeo set off from Italy in late June, took a sailboat from Sicily to Naples, they cycled for a brief period, and then began their long trek which consisted of waking up at 4:30 AM each morning. The pair walked around 20km (12 miles) a day using parts of the Via Francigena, an ancient pilgrimage route connecting Canterbury to Rome. At night, they camped out in their tent or asked for accommodation in hostels and convents. “We would sleep in the middle of nowhere under the stars and trees and those were some really good times,” the preteen said. Over $16,000 was raised for refugees and children less fortunate in Palermo.

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what an adventure!

Couple welcomes quadruplets – just months after adopting 4 siblings!

yes, what she says: let’s be kind and practice compassion

inspiring: She raised $85,000 for Covid-19 relief by climbing all 58 of Colorado’s 14,000 feet peaks

this one is just too good to miss: Be a Point of Light

just too beautiful not to share with you

Easy, doable ideas for the whole family to Give It Forward Today — to be the G.I.F.T.Love is a verb and that verb is give. For God so loved the world — HE GAVE.

You only have one life — to love well.And just for you, when you grab the “Be the Gift” book? Your farm girl here will immediately email you your own gift of THE WHOLE 12 MONTH Intentional Acts of Givenness

BeTheGIFT Calendar link to download and print from home!

Pick up Be The GIFT: Then receive your own BeTheGift printable calendar by letting us know you picked up a copy of “Be the Gift” here

one of the very best presents

FB: Shiba Inu – Kikko, Sasha, Momo & Hina, IG: yokokikuchi_ks

30+ Times? Look who keeps ruining her group family photos

a tender story of hard work, love, and sacrifice

20 Photos That Capture How Awesome Children Are

Amen and amen, wake us up, Lord: I’m Sorry (a lament)

the love of a community for a mother who has a child with special needs? many tears here watching this one…

When the road you’re walking is suddenly broken, when pain and darkness surround you, when unanswered questions and feelings of helplessness fill your heart…what are you compelled to do?This story of beauty shines hope into the broken places today:

From Broken to Beautiful: when you need to believe there’s a plan for your pain

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changed forever when, at 26 years old while at home w/her 6-mo-old baby boy on an ordinary day, she suffered a massive stroke. Today, more than a decade later & with the horrific effects of the stroke still present, she speaks frankly about what it means to cultivate joy in the midst of suffering & dashed dreams. I love this woman and my perspective is shifted, my heart softened & my passion for Jesus heightened every time I’m in her presence. Thank you beautiful @hopeheals. I honor you. 🙏🏽 Please watch this whole interview at DFJ2020.com and if you want more, head over to You Tube and watch my interview with her from several years ago on “The Chat With Priscilla” channel. I know you’ll be encouraged.

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just so love the hearts of these women right here…such life-changing words

Be Careful with Your Time… thank you, Rick Warren

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God is the only one who can redeem our lives, heal our broken hearts, and take what the Enemy meant for evil and use it for our good and for His glory. There is no stronghold that our God cannot overcome. There is no heart God cannot mend. There is no pain God cannot redeem. There is no bondage God cannot break. There is no need God cannot meet. There is no mountain God cannot move. There is nothing our God cannot do. Take your hurts to Him. He cares for you. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” -Psalm 34:18

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yes, yes, yes: God still loves you

Books for Soul Healing:

One Thousand Gifts

Joy is actually possible, right where you are.

Take the dare to discover: Life is not an emergency…Life is a GIFT. Life is too short to do anything but truly savor it — to count all the ways you truly loved.

The Broken Way

What if Brokenness is the Path into the Abundant Life?
You don’t have to be afraid of broken things — because Christ is redeeming everything.
There’s no other authentic way forward — but a broken way — right into a profoundly abundant life.

The Way of Abundance

Journey into a deeply meaningful life with this devotional and take sixty steps from heart-weary brokenness to Christ-focused abundance. The Way of Abundance — is the way forward every heart needs.

Be The Gift

Be the Gift is a tender intivation into the next step of deeper transformation, less stress, more joy and abundantly more peace & purpose. You only get one life to love well…to Be The Gift.