I’m Off…

It’s Tuesday evening and I leave for Bogota tomorrow morning! Yay! My goal was to be packed by 6:00 p.m. so as to be able to spend the evening with my family, and at 5:30, I’m pretty close! And, amazingly, I think I’m actually underweight for luggage this time… if so, that’s [...]

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Quotable

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.”
– Alexandre Dumas, the younger

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Will My Real BFF Please Stand Up?

Friendship. It’s such a common word, yet one that has been given so many definitions and applications that it has almost become meaningless. Today, the average Facebook user boasts 281 “friends,” with avid users even claiming up to 5,000 “friendships.” Teens between the ages of 13-17 years old text their BFF’s (best [...]

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True Friends

A friend of mine recently asked me to write an article on the “Qualities of a True Friend” for a newsletter she prints. The main audience is young ladies ages 10-15 years old, mostly from Christian homes, but some not.
Unfortunately, with my trip coming up I’m a little scatterbrained, and I’m having trouble deciding [...]

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Quotable

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.”
– T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

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