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Satisfied? (and just in case you only read the title? GIVING CIRCLE is starting again!)

Posted in FAITH, Giving Circle, Justice on January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »

It is all ache and yearning. It is the thing that will let brain settle on nothing else. It is craving and emptiness and desire. It borders on obsession. You can think of little else. Its like longing and lust and its nearly impossible to ignore. Hunger. Thirst. And those red letters in my bible [...]

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Let the children

Posted in Justice on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Then Jesus called for the children and said to his disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these little children. Luke 18:16 SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THESE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN HERE!  and then sponsor one of them here!  

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What if the whole world changed?

Posted in FAITH, Justice, World Vision on January 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Its hot today when we pull into the Garba Tulla region. The security was tight here on this road that leads to Somalia, here where guns were being smuggled. Here where the rain didn’t fall for three years. Here where life has been hard. The people here are pastoralists, they herd their flocks over 40 km sometimes [...]

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Planks

Posted in FAITH, Justice, World Vision on January 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »

It was in the airport that it really got to me. The people next to me in their matching mission trip t-shirts. Those that would come to this land cloaked with a pity that serves to only disenfranchise people further. Those that would come with simple solutions for the worlds most complex problems, those exactly [...]

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On Saying “Yes” to the things I can’t Un-see…

Posted in FAITH, Justice, World Vision on September 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been hesitant. These thoughts ravaging my brain? The ones sneaking into my dreams, habituating my thought life, taking over my reading time? I wondered, ‘what could happen to my heart if I saw them in thin flesh and only bone?’ Could I keep my head and heart together with the things I can’t unsee? [...]

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Still…

Posted in Justice, World Vision on July 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I still remember sitting in the middle of that shag green rug, my seven-year old legs feeling the tickle. I remember flipping through the pages of that tattered National Geographic magazine looking for pictures of fish for my collage when I came across somethings else. I remember bellies all bloated, eyes all wide, pleading with [...]

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