Happy, happy, happy (early) New Year!
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:
no one captures life quite like she does
In Awe of the God of Creation
2023: Year of Earth Singing of His Glory!
When strangers drive 7 hrs home for Christmas together from the airport when a flight is cancelled….
beautiful!
Miracles or Myths? A Spirited Christmas Debate from the New York Times
(truly a thoughtful read)
Only moving into the new year — because of the hope of what happened in the manger
Oh! What an example of how we could be for each other in 2024 …
Let’s all make 2024 the year to live given – to carry each others burdens.
It may be a green Christmas here on the farm —
but as soon as we get some snow in the new year, it’s kinda inspiring to think about trying snow ART like this!
I laughed so hard… & grace upon grace for us all!
a good time to tap dance for the grace of getting to be alive and making it this far, on the cusp of 2024!
A new year…
…maybe a newer, healthier relationship with work?
One (not so easy) Trick to Read About in regards How To Not Burn-Out in 2024
Welcoming 2024 like… goodness, I love this!
…that we all so desperately need in 2023…
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If you find yourself yearning for a moment’s pause, a breath amidst the rush, consider this an invitation — to begin counting all God’s blessings.
Together, let’s build a daily rhythm of gratitude
A New Year – A New Way of Being
a few words of encouragement to start the year
make the moments count
When Coming to Day’s End Feels Like Coming to the End of Yourself
{Hope for your New Year}
Cranking this one up here on the farm — a gentle and kinda perfect way to end the year!
…you know how you’re sticking with it & doing that hard thing? You’ve just gotta know, you don’t stand alone, you don’t walk alone, you don’t go alone: “But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength” 2 Timothy 4:17
And nothing can happen today, this year, that will stop Him from sticking right there with you & giving you strength to do this thing.
There is nothing to fear in this coming year —
because there is nothing, not mess-ups, not distractions, not less-than-hoped-fors, nothing in the universe that can happen today to separate you from the loving hands of God.
There is nothing to fear no matter what —
because there is nothing, not sickness, not pain, not diagnosis, Not Even Death, nothing in the universe that can ever separate you from the loving hands of God.
There is Never. Anything. to fear — because there is Nothing in the universe that can Ever. separate. you. from the loving hands of God.
So Go Live Brave! His Love Makes You Brave!
That’s all for this year, 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.
