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Micky Dee Sundaes and Reunions

I don’t always have the answers. In fact, I don’t ever have the answers. Sometimes writing these blogs becomes hard. I feel a certain amount of pressure to relay some sort of profound experience and carefully articulate the contents of my heart. Eloquence aside, words are incapable of capturing all of the feelings that are tap dancing on the stage of my heart. I’m pretty sure most feelings do not actually have a name; there will always be certain sensations which are beyond appellation by Webster and friends. I fear that when I return to the...

Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?

April 18, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

“As I was caught under a wave, I would get tossed in the air for a brief second. Gasping for air, I would reach out my hand and desperately call for help at the person on the shore. Yet each time was a different person that meant very dearly to me, and they would solemnly stand there watching.” Confused? So was I, when I was woken up at exactly 2:35AM, April 11th from having a very confusing nightmare. Startled by how uneasy I felt from my drowning encounter, I decided to write down my dream and fall back asleep knowing I had a long day ahead of me. Little did I know that It...

Enslaved at 19.

A couple months ago my team and I were on Bangla Road and went onto Soi Easy, immediatly we were greeted by a girl who ran up right in front of me and Austen and yells, loudly, "I AM SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW!" The whole time we talked she was so loud and bubbly and just adorable. It felt like she laughed at everything. We learned that she had only been there a couple months and the crazy thing to me was that she is only 19. Her name is Am and we have gotten really close, she tells me that she is so lonely and that no one really cares about her but that I am her best friend. She...

Daring to Declare

April 17, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

Last week was a hard week for me. At the beginning I didn’t feel like I could feel God. I didn’t feel like I could see what He was doing through me. At Monday worship, I broke down in tears. I wanted more than anything to feel God. Satan began to attack my mind. I started believing what He was telling me. Amber felt like we needed to start praying for the impossible. The next day, I went out with my teammate, Mrriah, to prayer walk. I didn’t really want to do ministry that day. As we walked down the road, we decided that we were going to make...

Thai-tanic

I couldn't resist. In the way I can't resist always magically having room for ice cream, or having just one more chip of endless chips+salsa (which I would do anything for right about now….) It was a matinee showing of Titanic…in 3D no less, in Thailand, and with someone who had never seen it before. Let's just say I felt like the king of the world, if you know what I mean. Something about being in that movie theater, seeing that movie, at that time made me think, as I constantly try to remind myself, that no one gets to live the life I...

Rooftop Refugees

Fear is a funny thing. I picture a miniature alligator called “Doubt” that creeps into my mind; he puts on a cruel-looking mask known as “Fear,” and manipulates my memories into lies. He gets into a shouting match with the little violin in my heart…trying to convince me to stop composing sweet love songs. He tries to derail my song with noise. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. –...

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