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For the totally unexpected generosity of friends.
For the friends who look out for me.
For the friends who keep me accountable and joyful in the Lord.
And for the friends who are willing to trust me and take me into their confidence.

My sister has never used an ordinary pencil. She grew up with mechanical pencils, and the closest she's come to using a normal pencil is using her recently purchased eyeliner pencil.

Hence her question today, "Jie, how do I make this eyeliner pencil sharp again?"

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

"If the husband is the head of the wife as verse 23 says, let it be very plain to all husbands that this means primarily leading out in the kind of love that is willing to die to give her life. As Jesus says in Luke 22:26, "Let the leader become as one who serves." The husband who plops himself down in front of the TV and orders his wife around ( Read more... )

From an email that Shirin sent to the rest of the team, plus coaches ( Read more... )

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth... And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace."

John 1:14-16, as chosen by a dear friend who included this verse in her Christmas message :)

From here, quoting Oswald Chambers' My Utmost For His Highest"We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us, and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success. We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired ( Read more... )

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But all that I know is I'm breathing.
All I can do is keep breathing.
All we can do is keep breathing now.

On this date, in the year 1895, Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize.

Also on this date, in the year 1095, the First Crusade was declared.

"When you've been gone, you never really come back."