7. You win some and you lose some. Don’t feel discouraged if you fall behind in a big thing or a little thing, because God turns the world’s ideas of “winners” upside down. He doesn’t see things like we do. Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will...
Read More →I’m currently sitting at a campground in the middle of Georgia. The air is humid and the ground is muddy. It’s a riot just attempting to get from the chapel to the dining hall down the hill. There has been a constant downpour for days. My hair is frizzy and my heart is heavy. This...
Read More →Oblivion, noun: 1. the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening. 2. the state of being forgotten I’ve driven lots of miles lately. Two weeks ago, I added 1,900 big city and uber-rural miles to my on-the-road-with-Allie journal. This current trip is going to arrive at close to 1,400 miles before...
Read More →So I officially have fourteen days left of my World Race. It’s information that I have been trying my best to avoid, but is lovingly repeated over and over again by my squad mates. It’s the kind of stuff that makes me want to listen to Graduation by Vitamin C and cry. It’s also the...
Read More →I am tired of being a hot mess. I’m tired of the constant internal monologues. And the verbal processing. I’m tired of carrying around my crap like it’s the spare tire around my stomach I’m doing every exercise possible to lose, with little result. I’m tired of being tired. I’ve heard that Christ came to...
Read More →This is a guest blog from Whitney Foreman, a missionary working in Nicaragua. She writes at http://creoentinica.wordpress.com/ Forgiveness: to forgive is to completely give up something, holding nothing back and to expect nothing in return. The following story has been resonating in my heart a lot lately. There’s not much I personally want to add,...
Read More →Sometimes I think about wealth and time and luck. And standards of living. And just the idea of sheer comfort. It’s pretty crazy, when you think about it, how different people have completely different ideas about what’s good or what’s comfortable. I could dish out a bunch of statistics about people who live on a dollar a day or...
Read More →I sit here annoyed. The Houston heat gets on my nerves. My lukewarm coffee pisses me off. My little sister’s attitude drives me up the wall. I find myself feeling entitled to comfort in every aspect of my life. I easily become so narrow-minded that I forget about the rest of the world. So, I...
Read More →This Mom’s Day morning rose cool and bright with ideas in my head for multiple blogs. But I could not get the website to work. So I left with friends for the country home of a mom and grandmom. It was gentle and peaceful and solid and warm and friendly this place where three generations...
Read More →Apathy. An enemy that relentlessly plagues us all. It tells us to settle, that we can do no great things, that we can’t make a difference. It tells us that there is nothing that we can do about the pain that burdens this planet. It says there is nothing you can do about the...
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