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You Can Start By Saying Yes.

May 24, 2013 | 16 Views

You Can Start By Saying Yes.

This is a guest post from Leah Malone, who (along with her friend Meagan LaFoy) lives and works with street kids in the Philippines. To read more from Leah, or to donate to her ministry, check out her blog. When people ask why Meagan and I decided to pack up our lives and move across...

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Resting in the Jesus in Me

May 23, 2013 | 41 Views

Resting in the Jesus in Me

Christin Lyle is currently in Uganda with limited internet, so she had to email me her blog and I’m posting on her behalf… Enjoy!   Cascada sings this crazy song of passion, love and intense emotion. So much energetic synergy is channeled into this dude that He must be pretty cool. I wanna bang my...

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7 Reasons Why Everything is Going to Be Alright

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...

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It’s Okay To Hate Your Life

May 20, 2013 | 341 Views

It’s Okay To Hate Your Life

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...

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roadmap to oblivion

May 19, 2013 | 259 Views

roadmap to oblivion

  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...

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How to Thrive.

May 18, 2013 | 194 Views

How to Thrive.

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...

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Do We Always Have to Be a Mess?

May 17, 2013 | 282 Views

Do We Always Have to Be a Mess?

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...

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The Struggles of Forgiveness

May 16, 2013 | 399 Views

The Struggles of Forgiveness

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,...

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The Seemingly Craziness of Christ

May 14, 2013 | 247 Views

The Seemingly Craziness of Christ

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...

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Street Kids, Prostitutes and Witchdoctors

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...

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