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:
it’s truly a world full of wonders,
and nothing’s outside the care of our wonderful God.
…what a capture! the tenderness of this unbelievable moment feels holy.
I keep turning her words around, savoring their truth:
“What is good is not just a matter of what we know but *how* we live it out…
Habits and rituals reflect and cement what we worship;
what we worship determines the purpose of our lives.”
– what a vision of love! –
oh to love long and unwavering like this!
oh my, oh my! dare you not to grin wide & laugh loud on this one. PURE JOY!
When our holidays are about Staying in the Story, being with Him — Peace leads us — and we can have ourselves The Greatest little Christmas yet!
Read the whole Christmas Love Story, from Creation to the Creche, with all 3 of our Advent Books:
And didn’t want you to miss this: ALL of our Advent books are ON SALE right now on Amazon — the lowest prices we’ve seen this year!! (But hurry, we have no idea how long the sale will last)
The Greatest Gift
(adult edition)
Best Devotional of the Year, ECPA, 2014, NYTimes Best Seller
Unwrapping the Greatest Gift
(family edition)
Best Inspirational Book of the Year, CBA, 2016, NYTimes Best Seller
The Wonder of the Greatest Gift:
Best Devotional & Gift Book of the Year, CBA, 2019
(pop-up edition with your own 14 inch tree, 25 days of readings, 25 day advent flap calendar, hiding all 25 Biblically inspired ornaments! For any age)
God’s glory bursting through these ocean pictures from the UK – you just *have* to see these
the Truth is always the path to healing –
how hard words can actually inspire and heal when said through the lens of scripture
host a neighborhood soup party? well, this is just the best
this Daddy’s tender love & care for his baby? <just beautiful>
Post of the Week From Around These Parts
What a Wild Road Trip with Your Mother Can Teach You About Hope & Love & Honoring Your Parents
So last week? My own Mama & I road trip over 1000 kilometres together (!!!) & it was wild & healing & if you want some hope to begin writing, with your life, a love letter to your parents, to your people — before it’s too late? Start here:
You’re Invited!
Being joyful isn’t what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
We’re thrilled to embark on the One Thousand Gifts Challenge and warmly invite you to join us!
We’re committing to journaling daily gifts from God during the three weeks leading up to Thanksgiving — because? No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.
When you join, you’ll receive a bundle of FREE resources to help you along the way:
- Journaling pages to record your gifts in one place
- Weekly devotions to your inbox to help encourage and cheer you on during the challenge
- Bonus: A special calendar to help you commit to praying for a specific person that you’re grateful for each day of the challenge. Just write a different name down for each day and cover them in prayers of gratitude and blessing!
– just take a moment to pause and enjoy life’s beauty –
a beautiful message from our very own intern –
and what powerful words on thanksgiving & God always at work in the midst of hard things
creating, painting, decorating – so many beautiful ways to use the gifts God’s given
Pomegranate might just be some of the prettiest fruit on God’s earth!
Maybe try one or two of these festive, beautiful recipes with them?
On The Book Stack at the Farm
Read Colleen Chao‘s recent guest post: When Suffering is the Soil of a Miracle
Read Audrey Elledge & Elizabeth Moore‘s recent guest post: When You Want to Show More Grace to Strangers
May we never tire of God’s beauty and majesty found all throughout the earth
glory, glory, glory
For every person who is walking a hard way and looking for a way through, WayMaker is your sign.
Your sign that there is hope, that there are miracles, and that everything you are trying to find a way to, is actually coming to meet you in ways far more fulfilling than you ever imagined.
“Come magnify the Lord with Me,
And lift our faces up to majesty
Come magnify the Lord with Me“
Well, hello NOVEMBER!
“Whatever you do, do everything…*giving thanks*” Col. 3:17
God’s will is for us to give thanks *in all things*…
because this is how God knows we can live through *anything*
All the research concludes that if you write down just 3 things
you’re grateful for every day, you increase your happiness by *25%*!
Who doesn’t want *that*?!
And giving thanks in all things is a God-command for our *joy*.
Let’s do it!
Take the Joy Dare (3 prompts a day to find 3 gifts) –
and hang it on the fridge for the whole family to take the #JOYDARE too!
Scavenger hunt for God’s glory this month!
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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
Share Whatever Is Good.
