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:
From the majestic sky to the smallest wing, just flat out awestruck with the glory of His creation this week!
Rare plant sighting 😉😂🤣
And to think it started with a simple question: “How can I help?”
Warning: only watch if you’re ready for your cheeks to hurt from laughing too!
If you’re missing Pastor Keller like I am…
this, some of his close friends, sharing how he was integral in their own spiritual formation
Do you listen to audiobooks? This may be a great reason to give them a try
(hoping you can read this one without a subscription, but if you can’t and you don’t want to get the free trial, check out this similar article)
If you’ve ever struggled with feeling lonely, misunderstood, or like it’s hard to trust other people…
you need to hear this interview about real friendship
Find rest this weekend
“Come to me now
Lay your burdens here
Walk with me now, in quietness & trust
I am gentle
Cast aside your fear
I’ll befriend you
With my steadfast love”
Post Of The Week From Around These Parts
How To Practice Being Receptive To Love
There was a wedding back in our woods and there were covenant vows of love on a late afternoon in June and there was a homemade meal under the apple trees down on the riverflats…
(And square dancing under a canopy of stars!)
And this is what happened:
It’s Here! This Quarter’s Grace Case — and you just really don’t Want to miss this one!!
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THIS. In 2019, Justin Brierley, in front of a student audience at Oxford University, engaged atheist Stephen Woodford, on the question ‘Is it rational to be a Christian?’
Sometimes… just gently, so gently
Want real joy? These girls have figured it out!
Keep planting seeds…keep watering…God will do the growing!
Has Paul Simon found the Lord?
Breathe deep today and real rest in the joy of the Lord
How to Find Grace in Each New Dawn
Tomorrow is always a new day.
But tomorrow is never just another day, it’s also a gift — a divine gift.
Want to turn your worries into peace, your fear into courage, your chaos into order? Start here:
Do you crave hope, joy, and assurance in the face of grey days, chaos, and uncertainty?
Come cultivate gratitude with us, pausing daily to practice eucharisteo and find joy in the small beauties of Christ’s creation. Come sit with us and share a cup of something warm, breathing deep in the stillness, basking in God’s goodness.
Join us. Rest daily with us, pausing, breathing, and praising God, surrounding yourself with daily reminders of His grace and love. The Keeping Company makes beautiful heirloom pieces for your family to keep for generations.
Take a virtual glory soak through the New York botanical garden – summer in blooming wonder!
Take some time this weekend to slow down and breathe deep and know that you are loved.
“Just breathe
‘Cause it’s a miracle we can breathe
There’s power in the way that we breathe
Release your heavy burdens
And let everything that has breath, praise the Lord
This is why we have breath, so praise the Lord”
[from our Facebook community – join us?]
… so, yeah, we may not know how tomorrow’s going to go,
but we could lean on the One who always goes before us & already knows.
And, yeah, we may not have the foggiest idea how we’re going to make it,
but there’s a Hand that reaches through the fog, takes ours & He makes a way —
because that’s His name. *He is The Way.*
And, honest, though we may be downright weary of the heartbreaks, the headlines, the hard roads,
God cups our faces: He doesn’t demand us to carry the weight of understanding everything — He only asks we stand close to Him & let Him undertake everything.
God never lays the weight on you to be amazing.
He only invites you into the most profound choice in all the universe:
Rest.
Rest in His strength to do it,
rest in His ways above ours,
rest in Him who is with you, in you & is 100% for you.
Leave all the amazing to Him.
And His Amazing Grace finds us where we are right now and is taking us — even right now — where we’ve only dreamed.
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.
