Photo by Kate Laine
This weekend, let’s find time to call up someone you love and bake all the things sweet and seasonal where you are!
We could all use a little joy this week- thanking Jesus for the incredible world he created!
Archaeologists Found a 2,000-Year-Old Garden Beneath a Church
This is incredible!
A 4-year-old boy transformed his North Carolina community
Let’s have more of this in the world!
Slow Living in the English Countryside
SOUL LEARNING to add to your summer rhythms:
The Joy of the Lord: Nehemiah, Rich Mullins, and the Dawn Treader
The Key to Happiness Is Self-Forgetfulness
Abide in Him: The Joy of Lingering in God’s Presence
Why You’re Never Satisfied
Listening to His Spirit brings us together!
Maybe we can create moments like this?
#BeTheGift & Care & Give it Forward
Canadian helicopter pilot helping to fight Colorado wildfire gave his life helping
Can we be a people of prayer?
Calling all the book lovers this week:
The way to my heart & a sign of summer- my book recommendations for you!
I’ve collected some of my book picks for you:
Books on the blog this week:
In Praying in Pain, Glenna Marshall reminds readers that these are not faithless questions. They are biblical ones. Drawing from the Psalms and Scripture’s own language for suffering, she helps Christians bring honest prayers to God, even when prayer feels impossible.
Whether you’re walking through chronic pain yourself or caring for someone who is, Praying in Pain offers biblical hope in the middle of suffering. Pick up your copy here today.
With depth and warmth, Dr. Neely’s book, A Love to Live By: Rediscovering Agape Love in Scripture, is a compelling call to rediscover the beauty, practice, and power of agape love.
Rooted in rich Scripture and filled with practical guidance, it helps readers live out Christ’s command to love one another in everyday life. Because in a divided world, the church’s greatest witness is love. If you want to grow in Christian love and better reflect the heart of Christ, order your copy today.
BellTower Stories:
Can you still believe God is good when healing doesn’t come? If you’ve been carrying chronic pain, uncertainty, or fear about the future, these words from Glenna Marshall feel like a deep breath, as Ann and Glenna discuss Glenna’s new book, Praying in Pain. Come join us in BellTower Stories, up in the 1896 bell tower our little Village Table church, as “the bells are the voice of the church, with tones that touch and search.” (Longfellow)
A resource for you this week:
Song of Songs | Session 1: Into Me You See
Something to inspire your summer cooking a bit easier:
I Threw a Summer Dinner Party in 90 Minutes
Claire Saffitz’s Ultimate Peach Streusel Slab Pie
Teriyaki Chicken Burgers
Chicken Shawarma
Creativity Inspo for you this week:
How to Design a Room from Start to Finish
Sometime this summer… maybe host one?
This is beautiful!
So so cool!
Post of the week over in these parts:
“Where is God When I’m Begging Him To Answer My Prayers?”
We are never alone in the dark — but finally alone with Him.
“Father, I ask that you allow everyone that you have given to me
to be with me where I am!” (John 17:24)
The dark gives way to warming light, because there it is, what breathes blazing hope into any blackness:
Jesus won’t get off His knees until you are in His arms.
The Light carries you especially now.
What we’re listening to on the farm this week:
This on has been on every morning over here on the farm-
beautiful worship… the Farmer singing in the kitchen here
Awed by His Creation
Battle of the Bulls: Filming the Bison Rut in Yellowstone
The beauty and creativity of a humming bird always takes my breath away
Thoughts to ponder this week:
Dying to Self vs. Relational Boundaries
THE SENTENCE FROM C.S. LEWIS THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE
When prayer and Heaven still Seems Silent
Something that we know will make you smile:
On repeat!!
This is amazing!
hilarious!
A Southern Accent?!
So funny!
The odds of this?!
Southern California?!?
September 26th! Come join us!
Indiana? Kentucky? Ohio? Coming your way!
Mark your calendars for 2027!
This summer, maybe you need something to keep you pointed toward all of the blessings Jesus has given you?
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
And to make the perfect duo: Gifts and Gratitudes: A Year of One Thousand Gifts
The perfect pocket size prayers!
… I had no idea that this happens behind the scene
The perfect way to start your weekend!
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.
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.
