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:
Oh my! These pictures! All this glory!
When we’re looking for a way in the wilderness… this is our hope!
From a Mama who lost her son in a tragedy–choosing to turn around and love, help, teach so others don’t experience the same thing. Applauding this woman! And so thankful for what she’s doing!
Ohh this sweetness! Big, big, happy tears for this family!
This key for Christian living… so crucial and formative to our life with Him.
Yes! Yes, yes, yes!
–All we get to do is rest & trust. What a Good Shepherd.–
Love Refugees, Orphans & Widows
with Our Favorite Grace Flame Candles!
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Oh these boys! We could ALL use a bit more of this in our lives!
Here’s all of our challenge this week: What are YOU going to tell yourself in the mirror this week?
In need of encouragement? Don’t know quite what to pray anymore?
Don’t miss these 12 prayers for encouragement in trial
So much yes! Eyes that look for the GOOD. Let that always be us!
Spring pictures from all around the world – don’t miss this beauty!
– Just a really good giggle for your weekend –
What a story! On finding God in the everyday moments & how He always meets us
Post of the Week from Around these Parts
First full week of Lent…And there is this heavy sense that we’re wandering in all kinds of wildernesses…
And we are all dog-tired of the relentless desert.
And — sigh — I keep falling, and failing, and standing there at the kitchen window, scanning the horizon, and returning to why this practice of Lent is worth keeping, worth keeping at, as it keeps growing the soul in deeply unexpected ways.
This year, we all desperately need a Lent that lends a Word of HOPE…
Come. Start here…
Why Keeping On with Lent Can Keep Growing Your Soul
– Just a good soul exhale right here. –
What these ones are doing to help & see life turn around for MANY in Africa… what a gift!
Now that’s a different type of patient care! What one woman is doing to give her gift and love deeply…
< This one just gave us a good chuckle >
Your Faith Feel Hard Somedays? Good News: You Have a Helper! Let Him Help
What Happens When God Calls You to Serve
When God Doesn’t Give Us the Life or the Body We Want
Freedom: How Moving from Hate to Forgiveness Changed One Man’s Life
If You or Your People – Little or Large – need a hug & More Courage to do the Thing You’re Made to do, You Need — Your Brave Song —
To Sing God’s Love Song About You on Repeat in Your Heart.
We created this one for YOU, and especially for:
- the uncertain and not sure
- for the outsiders and all who aren’t sure where and how they belong
- for the all the littles and bigs — who all need the freedom of being child-like
- for everyone who is a maker – all of us! – who need to know a love so large it pushes out all their fears!
It’s just so lovely– come along with us & breathe in beauty?
This song! You just have to listen to this one!
“Come magnify the Lord with Me
And lift our faces up to majesty
Perfect is the Lamb who gave His life
Perfect is the Father’s sacrifice
Matchless is the glory of our King”
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End of the week, and no matter what hard thing you’re facing or how much it feels like God doesn’t hear your prayers, this is what you need to know:
Jesus is praying for you. (John 17:6-9)
The One who breathes stars breathes prayers for you,
the One whose words spoke the world into being uses priceless words over your being,
the One who made time, lives beyond time, controls all of time,
uses all of His time to pray for you, because you are priceless to Him.
Your prayer warrior is more than any warrior —
He is the king of Kings and He has already won.
Jesus lives to endlessly, relentlessly and flawlessly pray for you (Hebrews 7:25),
and your prayer partner is the One who possesses all power,
and what He is praying for is your protection (John 17:11), your interconnection (11),
your God-satisfaction (13), and your always-sanctification. (17-19).
Jesus is praying for your holiness because He knows holiness is your ultimate happiness.
Jesus is praying that you’ll be set apart from what threatens to take part of your heart.
Because He knows: When you just want Him — then you always get just what you want.
Jesus is praying that you’ll be brave when you’re about to break,
that you’ll turn from what’s tempting, that you’ll stand against what’s strangling,
that you’ll escape into Him instead of trying to escape in a thousand unfulfilling ways.
Hard times don’t need to understand what God’s doing —
like they need to know God’s standing with us,
that He’s kneeling in prayer for us at all times.
Nothing makes you more fiercely brave than knowing Jesus is fiercely praying for you.
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
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