Jacob Wrestles With God 22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that […]
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Broken Models (Musing)
A couple weeks ago, my model broke. I had been duct-taping said model together for a long while. That proved ultimately to be a futile effort. In the midst of my life feeling a little hair-brained and too full for its britches anyway, the fundamental understanding I had been holding in my hands that tried […]
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My relationship with God has been… strained over the last few months. My hope and expectation reached a breaking point, and most of what I feel now towards Him is deep disappointment, mistrust, and hurt. This is not the first time I’ve bumped up against feelings of frustration and (what I feel is a reasonable […]
Continue readingThere’s More than One Way to Flush a Toilet (And Other Lessons Learned in Togo, Africa)
A recap and a few lessons learned during my stay in Togo, Africa.
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