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New Eyes

Posted in One Thousand Gifts, World Vision on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »

Its been nearly two weeks since our feet set back onto Canadian soil; Africa seems a bit like a jet lag induced dream sequence. People keep asking me if the experience in Kenya was ‘life changing’. In all honesty I can answer no it wasn’t. No. Life is the same. The dishes pile up. The children didn’t [...]

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Things I Never I Thought I Would Do: Worshiping With Maasai Warriors

Posted in FAITH, World Vision on January 11, 2012 | 7 Comments »

I expected it to break under the weight. I was fully prepared for my back to sway and distort with the whole mass of Africa firmly planted on that point between my shoulder blades where burdens tend to congregate. It didn’t happen though. How could I justify a break when the people here speak of [...]

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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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Peanut Butter on Toast

Posted in FAITH, World Vision on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Giving is complicated. I know. You hear about the abuse of funds, the bureaucracy, the way that charity sometimes does more harm than good (more on that tomorrow). Its complicated. Except when it’s not. Pat and Kara made a friend here. M was living in Northern Uganda when the LRA was running rampant and full [...]

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Preparations

Posted in FAITH, FAMILY, World Vision on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“Thanks so much for breakfast mommy, that was so yummy” I smirk, laugh a little. All I did today was throw some frozen blueberries in a bowl. “Oh sorry. I don’t really know how to say that yet.” He thinks I am laughing at him. “Owen! No, I only laughed because it was so easy [...]

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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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