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  • In Progress, Like Everything Else God, this story’s conflict seems too grand This was not my idea, terms, or plan But why you would ask this of me now - is a mystery The very last thing I want How I want to hold your s…

  • Chaga spoke this morning on what it means to be ‘the church.’ Sitting in one, it was a beautiful moment of feeling completely at home with a people who can’t always understand me, nor I them, but feeling loved in their f…

  • Friday morning I woke up at 6 and proceeded to check my email and read about the happenings from the night before (following the peaceful protest during Thursday afternoon in Belgrade). I was just as surprised as anyone…

  • D told me there was free bus rides to Belgrade yesterday, and that classes had been cancelled for her. Our professor still had us go to class but the area around the campus was surprisingly empty. Of course if I didn't h…

  • Galatians 5:13-15 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word:"You shall love you…

  • ... In present pain All fools say, "Oh my God" Oh my God, Why are we so afraid? We make it worse when we don't bleed There is no cure for our disease Turn a phrase, and rise again Or fake your death and on…

  • Advice for those going on stint next year… Bring more journals than you think you’re going to need! Because you are probably going to write a lot, and pray a lot, and write and pray more than you ever thought you could,…

  • "I need words, as big as sky" - DCB Our fridge is home to an incomplete 'magnetic poetry' set, and a European version at that. We have only been able to make 4 sentences as far as I can tell without leaving any words be…

  • I don't know if I have professed my love of books lately, but I will speak of it again... because they hold engaging ideas and the human spirit cries out to be engaged/ have purpose. Of course no book does this better th…

  • Today I spent 4 glorious hours of escape road-tripping from Texas to Oregon by the side of one dashing Donald Miller. It was so good to smile, and while my side-splitting laughter may have caught my roomies off guard, I…