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Free for All Friday: Poverty and Beauty

June 4, 2010

I hope your weekend gets off to a scrumdiddlyumptious start! There are a few great reads I’d like to share with you this Free-for-All Friday. Plus, I’d love to suggest stopping by to see the latest pics of my adorable niece here. I cannot wait to meet her! Can I also suggest you enjoy the [...]

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At the Store Without My List

May 20, 2010 Stories

(This is Where You Live Should Not Decide, Part II) If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, I sure would appreciate you doing so before diving into this one. It will make more sense. If you don’t feel like it, well whatever, at least I warned you. So while I was in the middle of writing [...]

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Every Person Has a Story

April 24, 2010

It’s an old saying I mentioned yesterday. And it’s a saying my friend Dominique uses a lot. It has more and more meaning to me all the time. Every Person Has a Story. Here’s a bit of one. I had the privilege of washing this guy’s feet the other day. He shared with me a [...]

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Something Better Than Your Blackberry

April 23, 2010 Stories

There is a special quote that has a special place in my heart for lots of reasons, and every time it comes to mind it seems that I gain some new insight from it: Earth is crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes [...]

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Travelling Tuesday: Overcome Heights, South Africa

April 20, 2010 Travel..ling Tuesdays

Once again this Travelling Tuesday is filled with a gift I’ve been eager to unwrap. The gift of giving, and finding again and again, that you cannot out-give God. Even in giving, you find that you receive more in return — and my cup is overflowing. As I shared last week, we visited an area [...]

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Beautiful, and More to Come

April 17, 2010 South Africa

We visited another township this morning, and I am wiped! I had the privilege of washing some beautiful feet, some tiny ones and some big ones, and praying for God’s plans to come to pass in the lives of some precious children. Another sixty-some kids received a message of hope and a new pair of [...]

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Doing Things, Great and Small

March 15, 2010 The Good Word

Mother Teresa once said, “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” This morning someone asked me what I wanted my impact in this life to be, and this is what came out of my fingertips: Honestly, I am not sure what my impact is going [...]

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Call Waiting

January 23, 2010 Prayers in Poetry & Prose

Until You feel the timing’s right for You to speak or move, Lord, I’ll wait and I’ll hold on, cos I’m holding on for You. Though waiting seems much harder and I don’t see the way through, I mean it when I say I love You, and I’m holding on to You.

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