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A Year Later
On my twenty fifth birthday, just over a year ago, I left home for my hometown. It was the hardest goodbye I’ve ever said, full of hard, individual goodbyes & somehow harder hellos.
25 was by far the toughest 365 days. It wasn’t all bad; it would be dishonest to pretend so. There were sweet moments in it too. But oh how heavy my soul was for most of it.
I confronted myself, my faith, & my…
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When The Road Diverges
When The Road Diverges
“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted — mostly because I had assumed there would be a thousand more.” ~ Morgan Matson I’ve had an obsession with quotes & quote collecting since I was young. I have a notebook I’ve been filling with quotes, an on-going list in my phone, & a whole board of quotes on Pinterest. Not too long ago, I came across the quote above. I found it profoundly…
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A Brief Summary of Life So Far...
A Brief Summary of Life So Far…
Some things that have happened in the last few months: Wrapped up helping at CRICS (Chiang Rai International Christian School) & turned down the opportunity to teach 11th grade English Went home for furlough & saw one of my life-long friends get married. Spent time with family & friends, met my niece for the first time, & celebrated the 50th anniversary of Southlands Church. Got a traditional…
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Comparison is the Thief of Joy
Comparison is the Thief of Joy
A memory came back to me recently from when I was working at The Sheepfold. One night, a mom was sharing her dreams with me, the ones she kept to herself, locked in her heart because she didn’t see how they could possibly come true. “But there’s already people out there, doing the things I want to do.” She referenced a prominent Christian woman & the global women’s ministry said woman had…
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These Blogs Don't Write Themselves...
These Blogs Don’t Write Themselves…
Man. Ain’t that the truth. Three months have gone by (Ah! What? How?)  without so much as a single paragraph posted. This is due in part to the fact that I started a Facebook group for friends and supporters & I’ve found that it’s much easier to throw a quick status up on there than it’s been for me to sit down & write on here. And I think that that is part truth, part laziness, & part a desire…
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Chiang Rai
This city has really captured my heart over the course of the last month. It has been an interesting ride, doing life in a new city/culture/country. The adjustment has been a smooth one so far, even as there are still practical things to figure out. (For example, figuring out where people go for food? I’ve been frequenting the same handful of places, though I’m working on branching out! Did…
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Landed (Week One)
* Originally written 13 August 2016 * We’re here! On August 8th, ten of us boarded our flights at LAX, beginning the first leg of our journey to Chiang Rai, Thailand. The flight itself was relatively uneventful & we wiled away the hours with in-flight movies, books, praying, & doodling. The lucky ones even managed to get a bit of sleep in. Exhausted, we landed in Taipei after 14 hours in the air.…
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Learning to Trust
24 DAYS. During this whole experience, I have found myself in a place of tension—the desire to trust God wholly & unwaveringly fights the slightly terrifying sensation of not knowing how it will all come together. Often over the last year I have fielded numerous questions, in so many words or less, about how I could possibly expect God to provide the $14,000 a year I need to be a missionary in…
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Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via thelovejournals)
Dear past me,
    Run.
"By faith..."
“By faith…”
4 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes, & 35 seconds… 34 seconds, 33 seconds… Every second, my countdown app tells me that my departure date is looming closer & closer; a steady reminder of the adventure ahead, a promise soon to come to fruition. With every lost second, my anticipation builds & those 4 months seem like a lifetime away. Three years ago, I stepped foot on Thai soil for the first…
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Sometimes, I find I am unable to sleep, my mind dwelling on those enslaved... Let me never be too afraid to do good, to do the right thing. https://www.destinyrescue.org/us/blog/eleven-inspiring-anti-human-trafficking-quotes/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=11inspiringquotes
Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption (via wordsnquotes)
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I submit that this is the deadliest message man will ever encounter in all of literature. It thrusts upon him inescapable choices.
Each time the barrier has been surmounted. Man is not man. He is elsewhere. There is within us only that dark, divine animal engaged in a strange journey – that creature who, at midnight, knows its own ghostliness and senses its far road. “Man’s unhappiness,” brooded Thomas Carlyle, “comes of his Greatness; it is because there is Infinite in him, which will all his cunning he cannot quite bring under the Finite.” […]
As Shakespeare foresaw:
“It hath been taught us from the primal state That he which is was wished until he were.”
This is not the voice of the witches. It is the clear voice of a great poet almost four centuries gone, who saw at the dawn of the scientific age what was to be the darkest problem of man; his conception of himself. The words are quiet, almost cryptic; they do not foretell. They imply a problem in free will. Shakespeare, in this passage, says nothing of starry influences, machinery, beakers, or the potions. He says, in essence, one thing only; that what we wish will come.
I submit that this is the deadliest message man will ever encounter in all of literature. It thrusts upon him inescapable choices.Â
― Loren Eiseley, The Night Country (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971)
