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best read when eating brownies
(Isn't there a saying about how you can know someone by what their friend say about them? Well, this is from my friends, be what it may. In any case, it makes me laugh ( Read more... ) -
new faces, new thoughts to ponder
Tonight Esther and I went to a State of Our Values watch at a home in Deltona. Sojourners, a Christian political social justice organization, encouraged people in communities around the country to open their homes to other interested citizen so that we could all watch the State of the Union address together and discuss the issues our country is ( Read more... ) -
divine mystery
Encouragement is a necessary yet often overlooked aspect of our relationships. (Or maybe that's just me.) I would like to be a more encouraging person and I'm thankful that there are people who love me enough to help guide me towards being that. Lately mutual encouragement has been popping up in my life without either party knowing about it ( Read more... ) -
what?! i think i just got old
ack! keri and i looked up grad schools and seminaries on friday. (what is the difference between a divinity school and a theological seminary, etc.?) and i'm corresponding with a missionary in guatemala about summer plans while simultaneously filling out applications for other international internships. what the crap?! is this happening to me ( Read more... ) -
the road to Jericho
A beautiful, yet belated, quote to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His words carry their resonance from his time to now and, I hope, through the future. Even though they will continue to resound with the human struggle, my hope is that one day we will look back on words like these to remind ourselves from where we have come because we will ( Read more... ) -
so turn on the light and reveal all the glory
I'm learning a lot in my life right now. Some things I can define and say I have learned this and now it applies like that. Other things are more ambiguous, but I know they are there. I feel content and happy and progressive about these things. I like being able to enjoy the present and look forward to the future at the same time ( Read more... ) -
"you had a very 24 year old birthday" - noelle
The fact of the matter is that I just turned 21 and had the best birthday in a long time. It's nice to actually have my birthday festivities on my birthday and really feel like it was a special day for me. As we were coming home tonight after a good time with good friends, Noelle and I commented that it was a very mature (yet fun) birthday ( Read more... ) -
no more time for complacency
Friends are such a beautiful gift. God always blesses me through different ones at differents times when I really don't expect it. I didn't realize how much I needed this time with some good friends until I'm here with them now. They are challenging and refreshing and validating and encouraging without even making an effort to do any of those ( Read more... ) -
pretend like your 10 again
I'm completely in vacation mode and it is so good. I've read some books, caught up with old friends, spent quality family time, and have eaten quite a variety of pies. (Key Lime is always my favorite.) What I've enjoyed the most is the bike rides and tree climbs that I've spent with my 10 year old cousin Anna Lane. Biking around the ( Read more... ) -
where my deep joy and the world's deep hunger meet
I have always believed that God uses our passions to show us our callings. So when my heart lept up and I started to smile as I was reading about the Porch de Salomon community outreach in Guatamala, I knew I was feeling a passion, and hopefully a calling, tugging on my heart. If I could put together the exact kind of mission work that I would ( Read more... )