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:
– now this is just a bit of winter glory right here! –
< make SURE you scroll to that very last slide! what a King! >
– oh to always see God lighting the way as the waves keep coming –
now this is just one of the BEST stories we’ve heard! who know THIS could be a whole ministry?!
truly AMAZING. #bethegift
For moms-young and old-for givers everywhere…
These words are for you. Don’t miss them.
You are seen. You are heard. You are loved. You are wanted. Always.
Linger a moment with this one – this is deeply powerful
“Prince of Peace rule over me, Prince of Peace reign“
IT’S HERE!!!
A giant, beautiful, full-of-wonder
<<BONUS>> e-magazine for Christmas!
As one big THANK YOU for being a part of our email family!
We are SO excited to get this beauty in your hands in time for Christmas!
Truly, GIDDY!!
And if you’re not already signed up for emails,
do so *HERE* so you can get the e-magazine, too!
Our SURPRISE bonus joy 100 plus pages, free e-Magazine, THE SACRED EVERYDAY, hands you some of the bonus joy we all desperately need:
- Full-color, 2 page spreads of JOY!
- Printable sticky notes and art.
- Free lock screens for your phone!
- A family scavenger hunt during the holidays!
- A cookie recipe!
- Book recommendations!
- You’ll find reflections, encouragement, a POETRY TUTORIAL, and a new journaling prompt–all to still and anchor your heart and home in this season of holidays!
How can we live SACRED everyday – so that our days look like:
Stillness to Know God,
Attentive to Hear God,
Cruciformity to Surrender to God,
Revelation to See God,
Examine to Return to God,
Doxology to Thank God.
Post Of The Week From Around These Parts
The holy days always
find a way,
because they are about The Way Himself finding a way to actually be with us.
This is not poetic cliche.
This is cosmic reality.
The relief of the holidays is:
You don’t even have to come, all you faithless and tearful and hopeless, because He finds the Way to come to you. If you’re weary of the way things never seem to change, if you’re tired of trying to make your way through, Christmas is for you, because The Way comes to you.
When Your Holidays Need to Find a Way:
Why the Withness of God Really Matters
what this teacher did? absolutely stunning!! #bethegift
– gather the kiddos ’round for this one! wide smiles over here for this nativity reenactment –
“He sees in us what nobody else sees and nobody else can see because he looks beyond who we are to what we will be.”
What He sees and how He sees us is most important of all.
these! beautiful reminders on strength.
The caption on this one. Yes!! God chooses us over and over and over again.
< great tips on how we can be the hands and feet of Jesus. how we can care for the poor this Christmas >
#bethegift
just so very beautiful!
Post of the Week From Around These Parts
Hey, you just really aren’t alone, so only read if everything’s not all perfect in your life, & you’re kinda longing to get into the real Christmas Spirit… especially since life’s sorta tender & hard. This is for you:
my word! how God so perfectly orchestrated this State Trooper to save this wee babe’s life? <tears!>
Help can come in so many ways – what this young, homeless nursing student was absolutely not expecting. WOW.
“It’s because of the cross
I can say that I’m safe in your mercy
I still believe
That you’re coming down and looking after me”
< God’s peace… what a gift! >
a moment of stillness you didn’t know you needed…
On The Book Stack at the Farm
Read the recent guest post from Denise Hughes:
Finding Sanctuary in the Light
Read the recent guest post from Sally Clarkson:
How to Give Our Kids of Any Age the Gift of God’s Grace in Words
Want to Hush all the Hurry &
Destress Your Soul This Holiday?
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With a 2-sided option this year, you can hang these sticky notes up as your own adult Advent calendar, quietly counting the days to Christmas, and giving you the greatest Gift of all:
Spaciousness,
Non-anxiousness,
&
More of His presence,
the Prince of Peace Himself!
This year, let His wonder awaken you again, captivate you, capture your heart!
More Of Jesus Only — and have a STRESS-FREE, WONDER-FULL Christmas.
Read the whole Christmas Love Story, Tracing Our holy Family Tree, from Creation to Creche, with all 3 of our Advent Books:
Unwrapping the Greatest Gift
(family edition)
Best Inspirational Book
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So you don’t miss out on Jesus this year & the The Greatest Christmas.
More Resources for the Greatest Christmas
Find even more FREE printables & resources at www.thegreatestchristmas.com
Here’s a few that we think you’ll enjoy:
Jesse Tree Ornaments
to Coordinate with The Greatest Gift
(use code from your book)
Jesse Tree Ornaments
to Coordinate with Unwrapping the Greatest Gift
Coloring Pages
Coloring Ornaments
This Advent, the tried and true traditions will hold us and the new ones will ignite us and this is the truest story I know:
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!
I know, there’s one hundred things on the to-do list-
but pause a moment? Take a seat, and a deep breath. Enjoy the beauty and peace of this season…
“O come let us adore Him
Christ the Lord
For He alone is worthy
Sing of the Good News
The heavens have opened
Let all creation praise You!”
[from our Facebook community–join us?]
…we light the Peace Candle, and it comes that Peace like a river keeps attending your way
and it doesn’t matter one iota what’s in the way —
and I mean: whatever boulders of crushing burden,
whatever stones of exhausting stress,
whatever fallen trees of shaming fallenness—
Nothing can dry up that river of peace coming for all of us.
When there seems to be no way —
Peace like a river attends to your way,
and that peace like a river will carve through rock,
and that river will make a road through canyons,
and that river will water what is withered & worries & waiting.
Because He who is the head of all things is the headwaters of Peace like a river,
so no matter what is going on, Peace will keep flowing on, to carry you on Home.
So sitting now, in the light of the Advent Peace Candle,
and knowing it like your heart’s burst into flame:
Peace isn’t a place, Peace is a Person.
Peace isn’t somewhere you have to claw your way to,
something you have to make a beeline escape for,
or some place you have to save up for a vacation at.
Peace is Someone who is the Source Who keeps you safe —
like running water keeping you alive.
So in the the PACE of the season, feel it now,
this making S P A C E for Emmanuel — to find PEACE in the soul.
Worry is belief gone wrong because we don’t believe that God will get it right.
Peace is belief that exhales, because we believe that God’s provision is everywhere, like air.
And we breathe. And believe.
And let the relief of Him running everything run over you,
washing the worry away.
Peace is coming, it is Advent and He is coming, coming, the river coming to keep you afloat.
Rest & give way & let go & let the current of His love carry you even now.
Peace like a river comes to attend to your soul in this very moment.
Feel this. Believe this.
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.
