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Big, bursting peonies and Mother’s Day somehow belong together — both reminding us how beautiful love can look in full bloom.
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.” — Jeremiah 31:3
Love For You This Weekend:
Your Own Flower Bouquet: Petals unfurling in spring sunlight—tiny glimpses of the care and creativity of God all around us!
Go for a walk and Forage Your own Beautiful Flower Bouquet this weekend
Vitamins for your Heart this week:
Moms, God Sees You
Mothers Worldwide Find Hope in the God Who Sees
A Mundane Life is a Courageous Life
Grab a Cup of Tea & Savor These: Don’t Miss our belltower Series
When Mother’s Day is Hard
More Reasons to Read
Prayer Life
SOUL LEARNING 101 this week:
Practical Advice for Reading OT Narrative
a prayer for mother’s day
Young NYers Have a New Hot Spot: Church!
Creative Bits for you this week
Encouragement for Creatives
The Best Bouquet!
breakfast in bed?
flower arrangement tips
What we’re listening to on the Farm
Post of the week from these parts:
when you’re a mom who wishes she’d done things differently
From a Mom of 7 & How to Keep Being Restored
Honestly — somedays, I want to go back.
I want to go back to when our 7 kids were little enough and I could stroke their flushed cheeks at the end of the day, till they fell asleep here under our roof; I want to go back to when they’d tumble out of their mess of sheets and tangled quilts with wild bedheads every morning, and come padding barefoot in their worn pajamas into the kitchen, and I’d scoop them up and they’d nestle their drowsy warmth into my neck, and I’d rock them and we’d be at home in each other’s arms.
I want to go back and restore the broken parts of our family’s story…. go back and change some of my lines in the story with our children – say the right thing at the right time, not say the wrong thing at the worst time — so maybe there would be an even different story, a better story, for each of them.
What mother doesn’t really want that most?
Don’t know who this is for — but if you’re looking for a real deep breath of hope for the tender places this week —> don’t miss this
you can’t help but smile:
prayer moms!
fascinating!
love this so much
best crowd!
On the bookshelf this week at the farm
I try to read every word that Vaneetha Risner writes and am always far richer for the wisdom of this exceptionally cruciform, faithful woman.
In This Was Never the Plan: Walking with God through the Heartache of Divorce, Vaneetha writes about the end of her marriage and what it looked like to follow Christ through it. She speaks to the questions, the shame, and the long process of rebuilding a life, while showing what it means to trust God when the future you counted on is gone.
If you are facing the end of a marriage or walking with someone who is, this book offers practical help as it points you to Christ in the middle of what once felt unthinkable.
The perfect gift: soul-transforming journals to write more of the life story you want most!
Begin each day in your SACRED Prayer Journal, and end each day in your Gifts and Gratitudes Journal, and you live your days with more joy, with more awe and wonder of God! And find your one life rewritten, restored, and re-storied in to the life story you want most!
Discover the joy and wellbeing that comes with a new way of expressing daily gratitude, and experience deeper connection and genuine intimacy with God through the six SACRED steps of prayer in SACRED Prayer.
helpful words from priscilla shirer
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
we couldn’t believe this!
the broken way — 70% off!
What if brokenness is the path into the abundant life? This one’s for the lovers and the sufferers. Discover The Broken Way — the way to not be afraid of broken things. Because Christ is redeeming everything.
New Month! Are you counting your gifts?
A FREE GIFT FOR YOUR MOM:
A beautiful, free, thoughtful gift for Mother’s Day
Please watch this with the sound on!
wish i could meet you here!
Dreaming of wandering through Coastal Maine…
And let’s stroll through a Japanese Rose Garden…
No matter what this weekend holds for you, may it remind you of the steady love of our Abba Father — the One who keeps tending hearts with such gentleness and care.
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.
