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:
all this Valentine’s sweetness to start your weekend off right
“You don’t have to be useful– only loved.”
The reminder each of our soul’s need.
these words! so much YES!!
Okay! This man trying to woo the beluga whales with song & they actually started singing back!
With God –ALL- things are possible.
What impossibility are you praying for? We’re praying this weekend, too.
Now this is just the sweetest!
these words! this beauty! true soul food right here! Love, love, love Ellie Holcomb!
Post of the Week from Around these Parts
I just really need to quietly tuck these words into your hand, hoping they can maybe lodge in a crack in your heart & be used to fuse together & mend a bit more of the fractures of your own heart?
With other tools in my toolbox, this tool is what’s powerfully curing me from a whole lot of fears — because there’s a whole lot of battling a whole lot of anxiousness & this is part of healing:
What’s Curing A lot of Fears For Me, From A Recovering Agoraphobic
“Why I gave up fasting for lent” – reviving the meaning of the season.
Great words to ponder with lent right around the corner.
– we couldn’t agree more! –
Yesssss! The “small” things you do matter to God too.
So many ways to encourage and love, isn’t there? We just love this!
How one man is giving back… and in a very PRETTY way!
7 marathons in 7 days in 7 continents – and in a wheelchair no less!
Wildly inspiring!
The superpower we all need — hint: it really isn’t what you think ;)
This mama’s joy about her daughter graduating? Just too good not to share!
What this 89-year-old accomplishes! Inspiring!
Whatever your dream is, KEEP GOING!
Goodness, how can we be the love and kindness of Jesus for someone this weekend?
#bethegift
An ice cream for EVERYONE – even those who can’t pay.
This has us grinning wide this weekend.
Because Our Hearts Need to Know How to Bend Toward the Song of Love God Sings BECAUSE OF Us!
The simplest of truths, told through the sweetest of songs, can change the world.
Which is exactly the refrain of OUR VERY FIST CHILDREN’S BOOK (!!) Your Brave Song!
We all need a hope song,
a courage song,
a song that assures that our our bravery doesn’t come from inside of us,
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Okay, now this is just too much glory & beauty & peace.
Don’t miss out on the goodness of this one.
Ohh! This one! Take five minutes to listen to this one!
Behold the wounds of grace
Upon His hands and feet
Oh the Lamb of God on Calvary
Isn’t He worthy?
Forever worthy
The Lamb who was slain
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Deep breath. Love is patient.
And it’s true: You only love as well as you embrace your inconveniences.
When I embrace all the inconveniences of the moment –
instead of resisting them, fighting them, fearing the upheaval of them –
and embrace whatever the moment holds as a gift from a loving Father –
that’s when I actually love.
The reason love is first of all patient –
is because it first has to slow down enough to embrace what is.
When you’re patient enough to embrace the moment –
the moment opens up its arms and surprises you with a gift.
Which is to say:
Every moment holds a gift –
and if you’re patient enough to hold space for the moment and not rush on –
you’ll get to hold its gift.
That’s always the challenge,
to trust that there is treasure hiding in every single moment –
and that if you’re patient enough to sit in the moment –
the moment will turn and put the treasure in your open hand.
It’s true.
The patient live in the present moment –
and receive the present held in the moment.
Patient people dare to accept people where they are,
grateful for who they are now, appreciative of works of art not yet finished but still deeply loved.
Aren’t we all just that?
Deep breath. Love is patient.
And it can only be patient when it is first receives the fleeting present as a present… grace.
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.
