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Is anyone else ready for some warm weather and ALL of the flowers!
Little bits of God’s goodness to brighten your day:
There was a blue whale spotted off the east coast! For the first time in 3 years!
Anyone need a vacation?
The best places to see flowers in Europe
So beautiful!
An afternoon of this… YES PLEASE!
THE MIDNIGHT NURSE
Heart Vitamins for you this week:
How reading books regulates your nervous system
A Deep Dish Birthday Party (with Special Guests)!
The Cost—and the Reward—of Following Jesus
So good!
WOW!!
SOUL LEARNING 101 this week:
Helmet Of Salvation- How To Fight In The Dark
A Liturgy Before Doomscrolling
Five Escapes from Dry Devotions
Wow!
I love this!
Creative Bits for you this week
This is amazing!
So pretty!
This is amazing!
We all need one of these!
I love this!
So fun!
Resources for you this week:
This will change your life! Join us for Secret Church this year on April 17!
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord:
All Sufficient Merit – Morning Worship Devotional with Shane & Shane
Beautiful!
This is amazing!
Recipes for you this week:
Do you want a book of all the best recipes you could ever have?
Open your kitchen—and your heart—with this warm, inspiring cook book from Vicki Martin. Served with Hospitality is more than just a Mennonite cookbook; it’s an invitation to create meaningful moments around your table. Whether you’re looking for a heartfelt gift for women who love to cook, or memorable housewarming gifts, this beautiful volume is designed to delight and inspire.
Inside, you’ll discover over 100 tried-and-true recipes, thoughtfully crafted in Vicki’s own farmhouse kitchen. From simple soups to elegant entrees and delectable desserts, every dish is approachable and made to be shared. Gorgeous, full-colour photography makes this book as stunning as any coffee table book, while also being practical for everyday use.
Beyond the food, Vicki shares hospitality tips that help you welcome guests with warmth—even when life feels a little messy. Her gentle, faith-filled reflections, rooted in Scripture, encourage you to see every meal as an opportunity to reflect Christ’s love.
This cookbook is ideal for real families and real gatherings, whether you’re preparing a weeknight dinner, hosting friends, or celebrating a special occasion. With Served with Hospitality, you’ll find recipes, inspiration, and encouragement to nurture your loved ones and build lasting connections—making it a perfect choice for gifts for mom or anyone who treasures the joy of gathering.
How fun would it be to try some of these things!
Mini Quiche- YES!
Melt in your mouth!
The perfect side
Lunch this week?
Something for your spring planning:
Come host a Spring Brunch with me!
Can we?
I love this!
Post of the week from these parts:
“When You Don’t Know What the Future Holds”
Slow the pace. Live awake. Live at the speed of grace. Give grace, live grace. Savor, savor, savor. Joy is the savoring of even the crumbs. Discern whether or not to pay attention to certain things, and how to pay attention to the things that enlarges the light, that shares all His light. Pass on grace, pass on gifts, be a gift.
Pay attention to gifts everywhere and you spend your only life on joy. And you become more of the joy the world desperately needs.
The only settled assumption worth fully settling into is that everything’s a holy given, gifted by a good and redeeming God.
The day holds gifts of glorious halos of light.
Hands open.
Ready for Living Loved?
If you’ve been thinking that maybe what we all need right now is a just bit more love, you’re in exactly the right place! This is your invitation into more… into LIVING LOVED: A 40-Day Practice in Loving like Jesus
Might I offer a glimpse of what our deeply meaningful 40 days ahead together might look like?
—> A daily audio clip where I’ll quietly read Scripture with you, as we journey through the Gospel of John together, walking every step with Jesus: listening to the testimony of “the one whom Jesus loved” – as we lean into Jesus, and feel how deeply loved we are – beyond imagining!
—> As you listen, consider hanging your corresponding Easter Tree Ornament as you listen (more about that below!). A beautifully designed reflection from Loved to Life — an invitation to meditate, perhaps save it to your phone and return to it throughout the day. Allow Love Himself to meet you as begin to let the tender places in you feel the depth of His unconditional love for you…
—> Our weekly Real Love Memory Verse. Throughout the next 40 days, we’ll memorize what Love truly is, from one of the most powerful, needful Scriptures in the whole of the Bible: 1 Corinthians 13. During the next 40 days, we are going to truly feel love and truly be love.
—> Your own Visual Love Pilgrimage — an immersive experience of masterful art, Scripture, journaling, and prayer, where you can gaze at a classic work of art while considering the Love of Christ. Spend a few times looking at the art, undistracted, and use the journaling prompts to help you see and experience Love more deeply and clearly.
—> And a daily Identity in Christ affirmation, with a whole set of 24 cards you can print, to begin to feel how loved and cherished you and who you really are in Christ – nothing has changed me like knowing who I am in Christ … beloved!
—> And each Sunday evening of our 40-Day Pilgrimage? Lord willing, we’ll gather together, you and I, face-to-face! Yes, Weekly Livestream Community gatherings are back! Let’s let go of all kinds of lonely feelings, and our sense of isolation, and together connect, in face-to-face moments of encouragement, prayer, and wisdom, with very special guests every week!
Would you love to feel really loved – and really be love? I will personally ensure you’ll get all of this beauty each day, tucked with all my love, right into your hands… just click here…
you can’t help but smile:
On repeat!
I love this!
His reaction?
The best thing ever!
Thoughts to Really Ponder:
Should Prayer Be Structured or Spontaneous?
5 Reasons Christians Might Suffer and How to Respond to It
This May Change How We Think About Struggles in Life
Joel 1 Shows Us That It Is Not Too Late to Seek the Lord
It belongs to Jesus!
May we never forget
What we’re Listening to on the Farm this week
I’ll Fly Away | Josiah Queen ft. Benjamin William Hastings
MercyMe: “Even If”
On the book shelf this week at the farm:
If you’re wrestling with doubt, grief, or disappointment with God, these pages meet you with the honest, compassionate voice you’ve been seeking. Tiffany’s personal experience with loss, combined with her pastoral insights, offers you a safe space to ask tough questions and take your time in finding healing.
When the bottom falls out, when you’re left questioning, disoriented, and wondering if faith even has a place in your pain. Mourning God is for those tired of Christian clichés and quick-fix theology.
In her deeply personal book Mourning God, Tiffany tenderly explores what it means to grieve not only loss, but the God you thought you knew.
Drawing from her own story of losing a child and walking through infertility, she offers a compassionate and theologically grounded invitation to wrestle honestly with doubt, disappointment, and sorrow.
What a book!
If there was a core lie sabotaging your life, wouldn’t you want to know what it is?
And wouldn’t you want to find the way to be free?
Most of us unknowingly live under a core lie that shapes our identity, relationships, and view of God—but freedom is possible. In The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe, Jennie Allen reveals how to dismantle the enemy’s only weapon and replace it with the truth and freedom found in Christ. Freedom starts here. Take hold of it.
This isn’t about behavior modification.
This is about transferring your life out of the enemy’s kingdom of lies and into the kingdom of light—where joy, peace, and strength aren’t fleeting feelings but your everyday reality. Freedom starts here. Take hold of it.
Are you tired of superficial Christianity?
Do you desire to know Jesus more fully?
In their new book, The Missing Messiah: The Jesus We Can No Longer Ignore, Kyle and Mark will help you move from a transactional relationship with Jesus to a deep and intimate one, one that will penetrate every depth and breadth of your life.
Courtney’s new book, And She Got Up: Shattered by Loss, Restored by Jesus, is a powerful testament to God’s faithfulness in the midst of life’s deepest valleys. With raw honesty and biblical truth, Courtney comes alongside you, offering a guiding hand from breaking to breakthrough.
God sees you now, right where you are. His heart is for you. It’s time to rise, to heal, to find purpose and joy again.
Anyone want to come to Virginia?
Join us for our annual Refresh Conference as we focus on living in God’s goodness—even through seasons of pain and uncertainty.
Who is ready for The Gospel Coalition Women’s event this year?
You won’t believe these sales! Take advantage of these today!
Pick up your copy of “One Thousand Gifts” for just $14!
Gifts and Gratitudes: A Year of One Thousand Gifts
THIS GRATITUDE JOURNAL IS LIFE-CHANGING: Gifts & Gratitudes gently helps grow trust in a God who doesn’t always explain our suffering but who always enters into it with us.
When you don’t know what or who to count on tomorrow… if you start counting Gifts & Gratitudes — your eyes… and heart… begin to open to Who you can always count on…. especially on the hardest days.
sacred Prayer: 90 Days of Deeper Intimacy with God
hAve you grabbed yours yet?
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Sticky Notes for your Soul:
Nothing But the Blood
Maybe enjoy the week by making a warm cup of coffee and settling down with a good book by the fire.
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.
