Category: reflections

Laundry Love Project :: No strings attached

laundry love

Wow! What a great time with this month’s Laundry Love Project.

We had a great time washing more than 30 loads of laundry (double last month’s numbers) and helping more than 15 different families.

We’re quickly finding out that communication and language barriers may be our biggest hurdle to overcome. Yet they bring such joy once they’re overcome. Continue reading Laundry Love Project :: No strings attached

Life’s roller coasters

Laurie’s shared a very open, honest post over on her blog – that I’d say is probably one of the most open an honest things I’ve seen her write. I’m so proud of her for writing it and sharing it.
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Fill in the blank

love wins

Quick… take this well known passage and fill in your name in each of the blanks ::

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
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you matter!

sculpture

Seth Godin shares ::

  • When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter.
  • When you are so gracious and generous and aware that you think of other people before yourself, you matter.
  • When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter.
  • When you continue to raise the bar on what you do and how you do it, you matter.
  • When you teach and forgive and teach more before you rush to judge and demean, you matter.
  • When you touch the people in your life through your actions (and your words), you matter.
  • When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
  • When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.
  • When you inspire a Nobel prize winner or a slum dweller, you matter.
  • When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
  • And when the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

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The Great Disappointment

Nicholas Fiedler (of Nick and Josh Podcast fame) shared an open, honest reflection on his disappointment with Emergent on his blog.

He mentions later in the comments that perhaps after spending 15 months abroad, he’s disappointed to see the conversation hasn’t moved anywhere from when he left. Understood.

Here are my comments:
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Listening in prayer

waterfall

Hush.
Be still.
Hush.
Be still.
Hush.
Be still, and know I am God.

Rest.
Be still.
Rest.
Be still.
Rest.
Be still, and know I am God.

I am in control.
And I am in love with YOU.

So don’t be afraid.
Right now, I’m giving YOU breath.
Right now, I’m holding YOU.

Hush.
Be still.
Hush.
Be still.
Hush.
Be still, and know I am God.

Rest.
Be still.
Rest.
Be still.
Rest.
Be still, and know I am God.

Words by Michael Armstrong.

These words came to me tonight while trying to clear the noise and thoughts rolling through my mind. Always a great reminder – no matter how many times you hear them.

Photo from today’s trip to the Ft Worth Botanical Gardens.