Photo by Dmytro Koplyk
Photo by Sergey Antonov
Photo by Bram Kineman
There’s something about spring that makes you notice the birds again—singing of new life, rising right where we are.
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” — Matthew 6:26
Little bits of God’s goodness to brighten your day:
Beautiful birds reminding us that new life is all around—and God is caring for it all
Heart Vitamins for you this week:
Loving Mercy
The kind of mercy we all need
How to Read Better
new this week from our belltower Series
What Exercise is For
Can’t Stop Thinking About This
re-reading
SOUL LEARNING 101 this week:
Prayerful Reading of Scripture
For the Graduates
The World Runs on Urgency. God’s Kingdom Does Not
Creative Bits for you this week
Encouragement for Creatives
A Living Wreath!
Those Spring Blooms
Seeing Strawberries yet?
What we’re listening to on the Farm
Post of the week from these parts:
What Do you Do When You Feel Like You’re Kinda at the End of Your Rope?
Do This with the 11th Hour God
What happens when you’ve kinda reached your limit? When you’re kinda at the edge of things?
When you’ve got your dog-earred how-to books and your determined jaw and scuffed up knees and weary shoulders.
Doctoral work for seminary. Spring planting. Farm work. Lambing, shepherding, chores. Mothering a tween. University student home. (!!). New grandbaby (!!). Navigating seasons of grief and milestones, ministry, serving. When you know exactly too well what it’s like to live somedays at the edge of hope, at the very brink of dreams, at the cliff of prayers.
When you long to go all the way straight through.
Straight through the storm of one exhausting, tumultuous relationship.
Straight through with the straight-up impossible with this one relationship.
You too? THIS mindblowing 11th Hour God story has been like someone threw me a literal LIFELINE … & everything inside literally exhaled relief:
you can’t help but smile:
Sooooo cute!
beautiful
Reading for Pleasure
hysterical!
On the bookshelf this week at the farm
I’m reading this book right now and I’m completely taken and undone — captivated and liberated!
Tyler Staton’s latest book, After Amen, refocuses our attention on the role of wonder in the Christian life, presenting 50 devotional entries that feature biblical reflection, heartfelt prayer, and original poetry from Tyler. Through focusing on Jesus’s seven signs in the gospel of John, Tyler shows how all of life is an invitation to be formed into the image of Jesus. This exceptional book is a provocative and beautiful exploration of the way prayer reshapes us long after “amen.”
How do you practically, actually live in Jesus — instead of just merely believe in Him?
What does it personally look like to form your mind, your days, your life, into the deeply meaningful, cruciform love of Jesus and entrust everything into His hands?
What does it powerfully look like to have a new way of life, a new way of being?
Join hundreds of thousands of thousands of readers —and countless Bible study groups — who have picked up WayMaker as a soul compass to find the way to the life always hoped for, dreamed of!
The practical tool to begin true life-transformation for a different way of life start here:
Wise and helpful words from Dr. Lee Warren
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.
socal friends? let’s be awed by god together!
Who is ready for The Gospel Coalition Women’s event this year?
I’ve collected some of my book picks for you
And More Joy For this Season?!
Gifts & Gratitudes & sacred prayer: both half off!
THESE ARE LIFE-CHANGING! A Gratitude Journal and Prayer Journal. You want a fresh way to experience a gratitude journal, and a joyful life of more gratefulness, and you want a sacred way to prayerfully experience a fresh encounter with God? Grab this pair of journals now while they’re half off!
New Month! Are you counting your gifts?
sticky notes for your soul:
A beautiful, free, thoughtful gift for Mother’s Day
Please watch this with the sound on!
wish i could meet you here!
Let’s grab a coffee and hit an independent bookstore this week? I’ll be dreaming of this one.
And let’s stroll through an Irish Cottage Garden…
I hope this week meets you with small, steady joys — spotting a bird in the morning, sitting with a good book on a quiet afternoon, and the deep assurance that you are deeply loved.
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.
