Adventures – Page 22

Do You Want to Get Well?

Isn’t it funny how the Lord has timing that is perfect even when we don’t understand it? Months before coming to Thailand, I felt….well, a block between me and God. Except this time was not like other times in my life. Most of the time when I have felt something keeping me from fully connecting with the Lord, I know what it is. I recognize what is going on and then I either choose to take it to the Lord or just brush it off my shoulder as if it doesn’t really matter (which by the way is not healthy). But this time, I had no idea what it was...

The Unspoken Issue…We All Do It.

We talk a lot about freedom. Freedom from lies, freedom from slavery, freedom to be who we are made to be, freedom to walk in victory with the King. Yes. I love freedom. It is such an abstract term and we can basically use it to describe any revelation in identity. Last night we experienced a physical manifestation of freedom. The freedom to dance in the middle of a perfectly lit coffee shop with windows for walls was ours last night. Yes, we really did dance around like crazy white people while many Thai people looked in questioningly at the sight. This freedom was beautiful, yet,...

Speechless.

I am a talker. Anyone who knows me can validate that statement. It’s just what I like to do. Ever since I was a little girl all I wanted to do was talk, talk, talk! But I still can have a hard time with words. And by this I mean that I am a very awkward talker. Sometimes I combine two words when I talk too fast ( i.e. excited + salad = exsalad). Other times my words come out and don’t quite come out as I intended, usually in a ridiculously awkward way. The fact is sometimes there are so many thoughts in my head I can’t seem to get out the right thing. And...

Khun chu arai ka?

Khun chu arai ka? What is your name? My response to this question has always been simple and automatic. "My name is Savannah", but is that the extent of it? I don't think so and more importantly neither does God. For the first time in my life I am embracing that my name means much more than a dry/treeless plain in Africa or some city in Georgia. A name is given as a way to identify, therefore a name reveals the identity of its beholder. In order to understand my name and what my identity is I have to learn to respect and revel in one FACT: God made me in his...

That other country… that’s where I’m going

I just got done reading Mere Christianity for probably the fourth time. And it keeps on teaching me. In her forward to the book, Kathleen Norris tells us that this particular book… "asks us to recognize that the great religious struggle is not fought on a spectacular battleground, but within the ordinary human heart, when every morning we awake and feel the pressures of the day crowding in on us, and we must decide what sort of immortals we wish to be." That statement: What sort of immortal do we wish to be. That gets me. I want to be a woman...

Fighting for Freedom

So we are almost to our halfway point…and let me just tell you, God is so good. There is so much going on here in Chiang Mai, but perhaps even more going on inside of me. If you know me very well, you probably know that I am kind of a control freak. I am independent and I like getting my way. I am fairly certain that I have been this way most of my life, but it wasn’t until about a week ago that I realized how detrimental this has been in my walk with the Lord. You see, I thought I had it all together. I thought I knew what was best for myself. I thought I could do it all on my...

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