Tag: god
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What This Is Us Says About Our Need for Fathers
processing almost losing my dad while watching the show that’s captured a nation
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To my future children:
Dear future children, Some people are saying I should stop dreaming about you. They are telling me, decidedly even, that the world is getting too evil to think about bringing children into it. All around me, they are saying we should stop dreaming. Just like that. Turn a key, close a lid, shove under the…
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Why I Haven’t Moved to Honduras Yet
This week, in four days to be exact, I am getting on a plane and going back to Honduras. For the sixth time. Many of you know this. If you know me even a little bit, you probably know I love this nation. It comes up quickly in conversation, like mothers bringing up their children.…
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What’s Even the Point of Being a Christian? (And other questions I’m asking myself)
We come here like immigrants, with nothing. We build and toil and strive and seek and gain and lose, then we leave this little earth, with nothing. What’s the point of it all? Sorry to be so jaded, but what. is. the. point. I see people try and give it their all and still, life…
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What It Really Looks Like to Follow Christ
Last night I went to see The Letters with a good friend. It’s an amazing film about Mother Teresa. I’m saddened to say I never knew the hardship she faced from so many for simply serving the poor. Yet she never wavered. She was firm and bold in her convictions, yet she was submitted to…
Sarah D. Shearer 