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:
the glory and groan of motherhood — just beautiful
oh this picture! these words! just. hold. on.
Breathtaking photos of mothers around the world from our friends at Compassion…
& just a little bit of wisdom from of the strong mamas, “Keep on praying and never give up. Even though the whole world is against you, you should not give up. You should know that God is with your family and they will be all right.”
oh oh oh! the best kind of surprise!
We are not defined by our failures, but by Christ’s victory –this is a must read! right to the end!
THIS! SO GOOD!!
now this man deserves some kind of award — how we steps in to love his neighbor who is a newly single mom & he just looks so much like Jesus! <tears>
DEAR MOM…
Just a puddle of tears! “Dear Mom…”
Being Renewed by Motherhood — the beautiful & refining gift that it is
“Motherhood has shaped me into the person I was always supposed to become, and my son continues to change me.”
Getting Out of Bed is an Act of Worship — this!
“…why get out of bed? Even when it feels like a burden, your life is a gift from God—a gift he created and sustains moment by moment in an infinite act of love. The goodness of this gift does not depend on how we feel or what we experience. But our challenge is to live out that gift each day, even amid our mental suffering.”
This little baby–just too sweet!
From couch to pew: a church re-entry plan & these words are just what we need. We need each other deeply.
“In a post-pandemic world, the temptation is to continue in our pandemic survival mode ways. But as followers of Jesus, we must not forget our hardwiring for communion.”
this is just too real! we’re all howling with laughter over here!
For every time a mom has felt under pressure … thanking all the moms who felt under pressure to raise us
Renewal Through Gospel Centered Forgiveness
“… a more general problem is at stake: once offended, the human heart loves to act as judge and jury, rendering the maximum possible sentence — sowing the seeds of resentment and the grounds for further hostility for years to come. …but what, we may ask, lies beneath it, and how can we break the cycle?”
Free Parenting Manifesto:
This is One Free Gift to Put on the Fridge to Make Parenting Easier Every Day
WHat Every Mom Wants This Weekend: A Way to Make Her House A House Of Prayer… A Free Gift For You!
Print out Your Own Little House of prayer, to pray for your Family —
the Gift you Want Most is more God for all of you!
And What You Can’t Be Without this Weekend — What Your Heart Craves Every Day:
A TRUCKLOAD OF GRACE — Free Printable for your Bible
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I get how this week is hard, how parenting is hard, how regrets & relationships & the relentlessness of time is hard, & you don’t have to do this week alone – we are going to do it together…
And the real hard work of mothering is really, honestly, just this:
What You Actually Really Want Most for Mother’s Day, When Mothering is Kinda Hard & Tender: Part 2
Mothering is never about how your kids turn out.
It’s always & only ever about how you keep turning toward your kids and their Maker.
The thing every mother so desperately wants this week, *always* — they actually really get.
Every Mama needs the relief and exhale of this:
For You, Mama…
I Once Ran Away on the Eve of Mother’s Day: Of Loss & Time & Regrets & Getting Do-Overs (Part 3)
Because Mother’s Day holds loss for all of us,
how can we be kind and hold each other with an all enlarging love?
If you’re feeling tender about about loss & regrets and the passage of time & you want to know how to get a do-over? Your heart might just thank you for taking this read into your weekend:
just for big smiles this weekend…
the ways this man goes out of his way to love & how might we all find ways to create a sense of belonging for others?
Looking for the Perfect Gift for…
Summer Birthdays, Young Kids Going Off to Camp or Brave Adventures, Kids Celebrating the End of the School Year?
Give them a thoughtful give, a timeless gift, a gift of bravery with this
heirloom, wooden music box from the Keeping Company, and their very own brave words in our first-ever Children’s Book, Your Brave Song
On the Book Stack at the Farm
Read Amy J. Brown, Sara Clime and Carrie M. Holt‘s recent guest post: How to Move From Fear to Trust
Don’t miss Bonnie Gray‘s recent guest post: Struggling with Mental Health Issues Doesn’t Mean Your Faith is Flawed
Make sure you read Katie David Majors recent guest post: What If We Were Safe All Along? Trusting God’s Provision When We Feel Overwhelmed
Celebrating my dear friend, Jenn Tucker‘s, little book this week & this is a book you want on your coffee table & in hand to gift a friend. Grab your own copies right here.
come along with us? glory, glory, glory
“I will not boast in lesser things
But I will boast in Christ my King
If my life speaks then let it say
I will glorify Your name“
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Yeah, it all seems big, I know, but you can’t lose today:
“With God on our side like this, how can we lose?
If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us,
embracing our condition & exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son,
is there *anything else* He wouldn’t *gladly* and *freely* do for us?”
Romans 8:32MSG
You may feel out of your league,
*but God’s got your game.*
You may feel right overwhelmed,
*but God’s arms are right under you*
You may feel like it’s you up against everything,
*but God’s got you up against Himself.*
God is for you when everything else seems against you —
and if *God* is for you, what can stand against you?
God’s mercies are new every morning,
not because God has some *obligation* to you —
but as an *affirmation* of you.
At any point today, look up — God affirms you,
*God is firmly 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
Share Whatever Is Good.
