“You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover …
[I’m following the Compassion Bloggers’ Tanzania trip this week. Click here if you want to see all the my Tanzania trip posts.] “The Nester” got to meet her sponsored 15-year-old yesterday. You can read her whole post if you like, but I want to share the second half. I want to know, specifically, if what …
Hectic… crazy… rushed… Sound like life? It all-too-often sounds like mine. Granted, I really do like to be busy, and I don’t think it’s wrong to want to pack a lot of living into however many years I’ve been given. But… Do you ever get the feeling that our focus gets “off” sometimes? That we …
[I’m following the Compassion Bloggers’ Tanzania trip, so this post is a very rare 2nd-in-a-day! Please don’t skip the first post!] I‘m seeing it again… what I love so much about following these blogging trips. In fact, most of the posts I’m reading are talking about it, too. Jolanthe wrote: The one thing that stood …
It’s time for another Compassion Bloggers trip! For those of you who haven’t followed here long or who may have forgotten, a couple of times a year, Compassion International hosts a bloggers trip. This means that Shaun Groves (yes, the singer… he works for Compassion) brings six (or so) regular, ordinary people (who happen to …
I’ve struggled these last few days with how to wind up the blogger’s trip to the Philippines. The post I knew I’d read, I lost and couldn’t seem to find, and nothing else seemed “right.” I found it just now. To all of you who actually read these posts, I want to make sure you …
More from the Compassion Bloggers trip to the Philippines… You know what I think blesses and benefits me most as I follow along with these Compassion Blogger trips? It’s the clarity I gain in my spiritual vision. It’s the dividing line between what is really blessing and what isn’t always. It’s the finger of God …
I’m not posting much today. Just a video and a question. The question is this. Have you ever been thankful because the fish swimming through your flooded home provided the meal you needed that day?
This is a post by Emily at Chatting at the Sky… A House made by compassion… I kept my hotel key in my pocket all day today. At first it wasn’t on purpose, just a convenient place to keep it after eating breakfast. Later, as we sat listening to the children sing at the Child …
I’m one of the artistic type of people. I love to make things beautiful…with fabric…with a piano or keyboard-that-places-an-orchestra-at-my-fingertips…with words…with a mouse and screen and vectors and colors…with website coding. But so often, I wonder how God can really use art. It often seems so very unpractical and unnecessary in the grander scheme of things…even …