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:
what a delight to enjoy this spring beauty…
If you feel a bit alone this weekend … read this.
there’s a beautiful invitation right in the middle of the loneliness
– the gift of His Word –
oh this is SUCH a great reminder! listen through the end because it’s gold we all need
Just really don’t miss this—Tim Keller on revival: DO IT AGAIN, LORD
oh oh oh! what this boy did to help other kids “smile on Easter”–the best!
perfect for the week after Resurrection Sunday–to practice resurrection & speaking of seeing the Risen Christ!
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In search of solace? After they lost their son… these lines are tender hope.
this doctor bringing some extra special, creative cheer to her patients
#bethegift
yes!!
we’ve all been there, haven’t we? thank God for grandmas and helpers!
what happens when you let the kids design their own school? now this is just plain FUN!
hint: it doesn’t at all look like what you see above!
< tear up every single time >
this is gold right here–a call to recalibrating our lives
Post of the Week From Around These Parts
What in this busted world does Resurrection Sunday actually do, actually mean, on the hard, ordinary days after we stop greeting each other with “He is risen, He is risen indeed”?
How do we actually “practice resurrection” and are really the Rising People when we honestly can hardly keep standing for our hearts hurting in this world of loss?
Read for your heart right here:
How Does Resurrection Really Matter the Week After?
How we can make good memories for each other! #BeTheGift
these 81 year old grandmas who visited 80 countries?! their zest for life is contagious!
ohh love this!!! Who are you surrounding yourself with?!
-this is just the sweetest!-
< ohhhh tears!! > This military dad surprising his daughter when he fakes a lost zoom connection
On The Book Stack At The Farm
Don’t miss Jenn Hesse‘s recent guest post: How Hope Makes a Path in the Pit
Read Mark Batterson‘s recent guest post: Learning to Take a Deep Breath & Praise God for Partial Miracles
isn’t this just stunning? glory, glory, glory!
This song… is a song for the week after Resurrection Sunday… Because the lyrics… the lyrics are part of how we “practice resurrection.” Have it on repeat here:
by our friend Ross King
[from our Facebook community – join us?]
…so the thing is, today’s not your huge mountain to scale—
your huge *God* is the mountain Who scales everything,
so you see your *problems* as so *small*.
He’ll give you exactly what you need,
He’ll make you strong for exactly what you have to do,
and He’ll make you brave for exactly whatever you have to climb this week.
“You can be *SURE* that God will take care of everything you need” Phil. 4:19
Thank God we are kept from what we wanted —
like escape, like an easier road, like an easier time of it…
and that He keeps giving us what we didn’t know we *needed* —
like more courage, like more joy, like more grace, like more of Himself.
Thank God we are kept from what we wanted —
and He keeps giving us what we didn’t know we *needed.*
Because God will give you everything you need —
all you need is to keep giving everything to Him!
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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