Happy, happy, happy weekend!

Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this life
just a little bit more this weekend

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 & your people right here:


Photo by Ric Matkowski

Photo by Hans Ott

Photo by Lauren Kan

Photo by Rye Jessen

Photo by Floris Siegers

The beauty of God’s creation leaves me in awe everyday! Enjoy the cozy weather this week with some of your favourite things!


Little bits of God’s goodness to brighten your day:

The Beauty of Winter

How to Wage Peace & Not war, because Relationships Are Hard (Advent: Peace: week 2)

This looks like the perfect Saturday

‘Northern Lights’ at Fondation Beyeler — a stirring show of winter landscapes

So Beautiful!


Heart Vitamins for you this week:

Our Conversation: The Wonder of Peace

This is a conversation we had together will help your soul breathe deeply this weekend… worth savoring

He Dawns as Wonderful Counselor

Waking Up Your Soul in a Distracted World

God is so good!

So good!


SOUL LEARNING 101 this week:

Sanctification Is Hard: The Process, the Pain & God’s Purpose

TURN TOWARD EACH OTHER AND AWAY FROM THE SCREEN

You’re Not Late: Trusting God’s Timing in an Unhurried Life

This is amazing!

I love this!


And Some Christmas treats for your Week!

Cozy CHRISTMAS BAKING From Scratch!

peppermint Cookies!

The best cake ever!

So so good!

We have to make this!


Creative Bits for you this week: Our Aurora & Levi!

SHave you seen our daughter-in-love, Aurora, & son, Levi, their new space for all their art & creativity? Stone House Studio

Such a fun idea!

So cute!

I love this!

We should try?


Resources for you this week:

Have you been thinking about the new year at all? Here are some resources to help you plan your new year.

2025 Behold the Lamb of God Livestream

Women of the Word Podcast with Jen Wilkins

Gentle and Lowly: A 14-Day Devotional


Make a joyful noise unto the Lord:

Cozy Christmas Worship

So beautiful!

I love this!


Post of the week from around these parts:

“How to Make Space for Sadness In Your Holidays & Find Real Peace in Your Life”

Emmanuel is coming, and we hold space for the One holding us all together at our centre, through the sadness and lament and disappointment and darkness, beckoning us to say it and believe what it really means:

Merry Christmas!

The One who can gather up every scattered piece of wrongness has now stepped into the story — and this ole hurting word and all our broken hearts can now know a deeper peace.


Need something to help guide your heart into this christmas season?

This Advent, Stay in the Story that the rest of your year, rest of our family, will need– for generations after you

3 Award-Winning, NYTIMES Bestelling 25 Day Christmas Devotionals for the Whole Family!

The Greatest Gift (Adult Christmas Devotional): NYTimes Bestseller and Best Devotional of the Year, ECPA, 2014

Unwrapping the Greatest Gift (Family Christmas Devotional): NYTimes Bestseller and Best Inspirational Book of the Year, CBA, 2016

The Wonder of the Greatest Gift (pop-up edition, with 14 in tree, 25 days of readings, with advent flap calendar of 25 Biblically inspired ornaments!) Best Devotional & Gift Book of the Year, CBA, 2019


you want to join us for a soul care Advent?

Download your printable Christmas Sticky Notes for Your Soul

Print this set of 25 Note Cards, one for each day in December.
For mirrors and sinks and dashboards, for pockets and walls and office cubicles. For this Christmas.
Each card is an affirmation, a prayer, for each day this month, to keep the focus…to celebrate Christ!


Paper Chain to Freedom

Come experience Christmas like never before — remembering that the Greatest Gift Jesus has ever given…is all that He has taken away.

This Paper Chain to Freedom is your own FREE ADVENT CALENDAR that is both a countdown to Christmas — and a daily invitation to reflect on that day’s Bible verse to fully experience the freedom Jesus brings to have a lighter, freer Christmas!

And too More Exclusive All Free Gifts for you


you can’t help but smile:

THE BEST OF TIMES


Thoughts to Really Ponder:

When No One Shows Up: Hospitality in the Age of Maybe

The Bible Is for You


What we’re Listening to on the Farm this week

O Come, All You Unfaithful

Praise You Through It


Friends! Do you want to join me this February?

Mended & Restored: A Collide Conference for Women

ANDDD I have an exclusive discount code to share with YOU! Ann10, gives you $10 off any ticket!


You won’t want to miss this conference!

I’ll be at TGCW26, and I want you there too! Tell your mom, sisters, friends, and anyone else who might want to experience a little bit more of Jesus! !

Join me and thousands of others in Indianapolis, June 11-13, 2026, as we turn our eyes to see Jesus in the Psalms.


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Sacred Prayer: 90 Days of Deeper Intimacy with God

Have you too been thinking about the new year already? And maybe how to prepare your heart to see the beauty in the everyday?

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Sticky Notes for your Soul


Sing! An Irish Christmas


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.