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“I love Psalm 90: 1-2. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God”. Psalms 90: 1-2 If you have ever been displaced… unwanted… without home or habitation… you know loneliness.…
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I am reading this incredible book… Let me say it again… I am reading this really incredible book! No, that’s not exactly right. What I meant to say was, I am reading this book and I feel God’s presence so strongly that it is truly INCREDIBLE! Yes, that’s more like it. I feel so inspired!…
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Hello, Stranger! If you are one of the two people who follow this blog, you may have been wondering what happened… where did she go? On the last post, she said she had been sick… is she still? One of my favorite quotes from the movie, Dances with Wolves is the scene in which the…
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“Tonight is the night! This is it!.”, or so I thought… the final night, I would succumb to an unexpected, anaphylactic reaction.  Who knows what causes such things… too much perfume in an enclosed space… a drug reaction to a Motrin tablet, a nasty cold I picked up most likely in some airport, but my…
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Note to self… when in staying in a jungle paradise, do not put cashews in your suitcase. Nature has a way of letting you know who really is dominant. I woke up at midnight and the floor was moving. At first I thought it was just the fever, but it turned out to be an…
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It is hard for me to believe that today is the last day of vacation bible school. Wow, the week just flew by. We won’t have to say goodbye to the kids until Sunday, which is a good thing since I am not ready for that! We served dinner in two of the villages this…
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Well, it’s another day in Paradise. It is still so hard to believe that we are back in the Philippines… And once again I find myself sitting outside on the veranda… enjoying the vibrant green tropical backdrop, the roar of the stream below… “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined…
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Yesterday morning at early dawn, the sky was calling… and I could hear You say my name on a breeze heavy with fragrant Plumeria blossoms. As bats swooped and fluttered for breakfast over head, I searched for You, Father, under outstretched arms of the sunlit canopy, and with great wonder and delight in your goodness…
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Well… Here I am in AntiPaul, a suburb of Manila, sitting outside on a veranda of the hotel where we are staying and looking at the hot pink bougainvillea blossoms, a towering mango tree with ripe mangos dripping from its branches, bird of paradise blooms, singing exotic birds in cages scattered about the grounds and…
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I wrote the following post on Friday morning before coming but not internet in the airports… Well… malaria prophylaxis started, work responsibilities turned over, craft projects for 150 children organized by day… the packing finally complete… and waiting for take-off… belted, buckled, and stowed… Whew! I am so excited I could bust! I can’t wait…
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