Happy, happy, happy weekend!
Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeeming everything — and that there’s love everywhere & for ((you))!
Serving up only the Good Stuff for you right here:
OH! The joy of childlike wonder!
…if not the best, a snowman is truly a child’s coolest friend…
A man who had dyslexia… ends up leaving millions to his hometown — and inspiring all of us to find surprising way to be GIVERS this Christmas! #BeTheGift
Gratitude’s a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
Wanna exhale with a fairytale skate through a forest?
Linger with a cup of something warm and have a kind of #dailyglorysoak, just being in awe of these winning captures in the 2023 Natural Landscape Photography Awards — WOW!
How a man found God in taking 5,000 pictures of snowflakes!
…a reindeer doing his happy dance…or should we say, happy prance!
Beside a need to bundle up – what snow can mean to a Christian!
…speaking of snow…don’t you wish it made everyone this excited?!
On the Book Stack at the Farm
Don’t miss Joni Eareckson Tada‘s recent guest post:
The Faith We Need for Holidays, For Ordinary Days, For Hope in Suffering Seasons
Or her book that I can’t stop reading:
What she says here is truly everything… exhale…
Starry eyed over the kindness of this good neighbor!
Our very favourite Christmas resources — including the brand new Christmas music boxes (!) and 25 Advent Master Classic Art prints, each pointing to a name of Jesus, which I can’t wait to use this year— are all on sale this weekend — and putting out our most favourite resource of all time, our 25 day candle Advent wreath
All our favourite resources for the holidays on sale at The Keeping Company
No postage needed & sure to delight—these treats are first-class deliciousness headed right to your taste buds!
Christmas road trip, anyone?! Goodness, I wanna go see all of these!
4 Reasons to Believe in the Christmas Miracle
Why the supernatural events of this season are both credible and incredible
experience a Christmas that restores Hope God Is With You
This Advent, just as things are, Stay in the Story,
the Story the rest of your year, your family, will need.
25 CHRISTMAS ADVENT DEVOTIONALS:
3 Award-Winning books for the Whole Family
The Greatest Gift (adult edition): Best Devotional of the Year, ECPA, 2014
Unwrapping the Greatest Gift (Family Edition): Best Inspirational Book of the Year, CBA, 2016
The Wonder of the Greatest Gift: Best Devotional & Gift Book of the Year, CBA, 2019(pop-up edition with your own 14 inch tree, 25 days of readings, 25 day advent flap calendar, hiding all 25 Biblically inspired ornaments! For any age)
And last but not least…playing this on repeat as we decorate for Christmas this week!
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.
