Tag: community
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Spoken Word | We Belong To Each Other
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. Mother Theresa ~ “Imagine you’re walking through a forest. Full of tall strong […]
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Lessons From One Year In Korea
It’s been almost a year since I entered Korea with my wife, only being married a few months at the time. As Moses was placed in the reeds by the river’s bank without his planning or consent, a series of divinely appointed events placed us in this foreign country for our first year of marriage. As our time here […]
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Eternal Summer
To the summer night with beloved friends that inspired our hearts, Germeen, George, Amanowil, Mark and Mina, thank you for this night. Sometimes we think that we are in need of a perfect home with everything neatly in place to show hospitality. And sometimes we think we need a perfect heart that has it […]
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Vulnerability: For Love and Risks
Everyone agrees that vulnerability is not something you do with everyone, but the one or two who have earned the right to hear your story. And everyone agrees that it is so hard, which is why we avoid it. I believe, for a multitude of reasons which are so personal and specific to each person, the two main […]
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A Letter To My Teen Self: Solitude
‘To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude’ – Henri Nouwen