Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this life
just a little bit more this weekend…
Serving up only the Good Stuff for you & your people right here:
…come exhale at the beach with the waves & way our Creator paints this world with glory!
Oh my! your weekend may need the smiling exhale of this!
the sweetest little baby “flowers” :)
oh! grateful for good like this in the world! <big grins>
making history– the 1st all-Black team summits Mount Everest – cheering so loud!
< big smiles over here for this cutie >
Oh how we love these wooden crosses from The Keeping Company!
You can find your very own right here – plus other amazing heirloom pieces for keeping company with Jesus
This song – “Your will on earth be done in me”
wow! did you seeeeee what this 83 year old accomplishes? what an inspiration!
call the kids over for this one! a kitty who LOVES to adventure?!
Post of the week from these parts:
What Do We Do With All This Grief?
This whole suffering world is awash with the tears of God and no one cries alone.
If we deeply care about justice, justice in our streets, in our churches, in our schools, in our communities, in our world, we will keep making spaces for deep lament in our hearts, because when our hearts are moved to lament, the very heart of God is moved toward all of us.… and we are moved toward all the vulnerable.
well, goodness – who can we find to love and serve?
*inspiring*
A college valedictorian who hasn’t spoken since 15 months old gives a moving commencement speech
< a baby sloth reunited with her mama – wide smiles over here! >
simply inspiring! How one woman introduced deaf-blind communities to a new language of touch
On Our Book Stack At The Farm
Read Lisa Bevere‘s recent guest post:
Your Flaws Don’t Stop God’s Love
Read Jamie C. Finn‘s recent guest post:
You Don’t Have To Be Afraid – Because God
Read Marcy Gregg‘s recent guest post:
Remembering His Promises When Our Memory Fails
Read Bailey T. Hurley‘s recent guest post:
How to Love Well when a Friend Hurts You
come along with us on a journey over stunning New Zealand?
oh God’s beauty here!
*Come Join Us!*
Can I invite you to come Join our Community on the Way
as we begin a 6-Week WayMaker Online Bible Study
Wherever you are, whatever you are facing, in the very eye of your storm or at the bottom of your depths of disappointment or unspoken broken, friend, can I give you my compass?
A compass to find your way. A compass to part the waves.
Because you and I are both on a journey to find our way— to find The Way—to know God. Because journeying isn’t just walking where Jesus walked, but walking in the way Jesus walked. And the spiritual practice – this SACRED compass – that we’re going to unpack in the WayMaker study together is the soul’s very real and directing compass to keeping company with God.
In our time together, we’ll see how the WayMaker is not a far way off. He’s no distracted lifeguard, oblivious while you flail and drown in the deep end. But instead, He is here, right here.
Will you join me for the WayMaker Online Bible Study this summer with the community at FaithGateway? Our journey begins June 13th.
This free six-week journey will help us all together develop a S.A.C.R.E.D daily habit, a rule of life, that will reorient our souls in relation to God through Scripture, prayer and study.
Being with you, walking on the Way, all of us together in community, is a humbling joy that lays me low with gratitude.
Signing up for the Online Bible Study is FREE!
your sign up includes:
- FREE access to the exclusive Facebook Group – a whole community, led by our friends at Faith Gateway, to walk through the SACRED Way together June 13 – July 30
- FREE access to all 6 Bible Study Sessions with Ann
- FREE PDF download of Session One from the Study Guide
- FREE Wayfarer’s Compass printable: a daily guide to the SACRED Way of life
- FREE lettered quotes to print
(you will also be given the opportunity to pick up a copy of the WayMaker Study Guide as a companion to the study to help you dig even deeper, but no purchase is necessary in order to join the Online Bible Study and enjoy the free gifts listed above.)
Join the free Online Bible Study
to develop a SACRED Way of Life to change your life
Pick Up the WayMaker study guide
No purchase is necessary to join the WayMaker Online Bible Study, but if you want to dig even deeper into each lesson, you can pick up the WayMaker Study Guide for additional content and guided reflections.
This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including:
The study guide itself – video teaching notes, group discussion questions, personal study and application of the life-changing SACRED habit, and a welcome letter from Ann for introducing each session.
An individual lifetime access code to stream all six video sessions online (included with all study guides)
And the physical DVD (with the DVD bundle only)
For Our Tender places, For our Hard Stories, For All of Us looking for More than a Way Through, but a New way to actually Be, a New way of Life
“You are with me
Father You’re for me
Fear will never conquer me
I belong to Jesus
I’m never alone
I’m never abandoned
Oh fear you’ll never conquer me
I belong to Jesus”
deep breath.
whisper it to your soul:
I don’t have to perform for Him today.
I am sung over today.
He performs His love for me.
I am delighted in. I am rejoiced over. I am loved on.
Today, I’m listening everywhere for His love song over me.
“The LORD your God is with you,the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in His love He will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.“
Zephaniah 3.17
[you can find this post and other encouragement from Ann in our Facebook community … will you come join us?]
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.
