Photo by Patrick Petzdorf
Photo by Marian Brandt
Photo by Sean Kuriyan
how we are dreaming of Ireland… as St. Patrick’s Day approaches!
“Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who
thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who
speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.” ~ St. Patrick’s Prayer
Heart Vitamins for you this week:
3 Reasons to Be Hopeful About the Future
Don’t miss this conversation with these wise women
So good!
Beautiful…
SOUL LEARNING 101 this week:
When Every Symptom Feels Like a Threat
How to Reclaim Your Soul from Health Anxiety and “Cyberchondria”
The Gospel of Matthew from The Secret Church
Creative Bits for you this week
Love These Ideas!
Deeply encouraging
Celebrating!
We’re Trying These!
What we’re listening to on the Farm
The More I Seek You (Chapel Sessions)
Canticle (the prayer of St. Patrick)
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
We got to sit down and chat with Bob Goff this week — because who better to talk about Living Loved than the author of Love Does, a man who has spent his life showing us what love looks like in action.
And don’t miss all these free gifts when you join!
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:
The Best!
beautiful…
These Two!
The best thing ever!
On the bookshelf this week at the farm:
Kathie Lee Gifford and scholar Bryan Litfin bring the stories of Nero and Paul to life in a creative nonfiction tale by identifying how moral questions can be applied to modern Christian life. Combining historical accuracy with narrative imagination, Nero and Paul drops you into the drama of human pride and divine destiny that unfolded on the stage of imperial Rome. Don’t miss this ancient story with a timeless message that reverberates across the centuries and will light the fire of your faith today.
This book is for anyone who learned the language of faith early but is still learning how to live free inside it. Through personal stories, theology, and compassionate reflection, Kristen invites readers to release shame, reconnect with their bodies and desires, and rediscover a faith rooted not in fear, but in belovedness. In these pages, you’ll find authenticity, empathy, and compassionate theology. This book isn’t a call to give up on faith. It’s an invitation to hold it differently.
Did you see this? I sat down with Kathie Lee Gifford for a fascinating conversation
Calling Folks in Virginia! I’d love to connect with you at Refresh!
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 today!
One Thousand Gifts is Half off!
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.
Are you counting your gifts this month?
Sticky Notes for your Soul:
Listening to this on the 4th Sunday of Lent…
Andrew Peterson and the Dark before the Dawn…
…and Lent as Following the Shepherd: Psalm 23
Hope this week brings a few quiet moments of reflection… revival… and again, in all kinds of ways, living into the the joy of His resurrection…
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.
