Tweet I am in the middle of a study called “Economy of Love.” It is an excellent study done by Relational Tithe and Shane Claiborne. It is a movement to act counter-cultural and to decide to have enough. To live in a community where today we have enough. Not always everything we want, not always new clothes, cars, toys, or gadgets, but a community where everyone has enough. I am going to keep posting questions and quotes from the book because they cause you to think. “The model of incarnation is that Jesus moved into the neighborhood. Jesus entered into the struggle, was born in the middle of a genocide…
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A Voice for the Voiceless
Tweet Proverbs 31:8 says, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” I was able to listen to a webinar this morning put on by the Christian Alliance for Orphans and Tom Davis, CEO of Children’s HopeChest. The topic: Sex Trafficking. Granted, probably not what most people want to wake up and spend an hour listening to, but something that is heavy on my heart because I believe it is something that is heavy on God’s heart. I think it breaks His heart in ways we cannot imagine. And it is something that breaks my heart in ways I never thought possible.…
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The Story of Stuff
Tweet This is kinda long for a YouTube video, but totally worth the time to watch it. I think it is time we started calling for real change and taking responsibility for being the richest and often, most wasteful country in the world. Check out the website; there are some pretty cool links and information on there too.
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Pondering This
Tweet Among us English-speaking peoples especially do the praises of poverty need once more to be boldly sung. We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient realization of poverty could have meant; the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any…
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If You Had Unlimited Resources, What Would You Give This Christmas?
Tweet If You Had Unlimited Resources, What Would You Give This Christmas? I posed this question to my 6th-8th grade computer classes and thought I would post their answers as well as ask for yours. -Toys for kids that can’t afford them -Money to a person in Saipan whose house just burned down -Houses and food for homeless people -Money for moneyless -Peace for North and South Korea -Money to the poor in Saipan -Snow for N. Africa -Food for Africa -Ice to the North Pole -Water to Africa -World Peace -Joy -I will start green factories -A mansion -To everyone who doesn’t have a house, a big house -A…
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It’s That Time of Year
Tweet Everyone is gearing up for Christmas. Even on my small little island, the hotels are decorated with Christmas trees and the stores are getting ready for the madness that is Christmas. A few are even advertising Black Friday sales. My Twitter feed, Facebook wall, and e-mail inbox are filling up with ads and articles on Christmas. I love Christmas. It is by far my favorite time of the year. I love Christmas music, movies, decorations, and all that is Christmas. I love the sights, sounds, and smells. The lights, trees-all of it. I have so many fond memories of Christmas as a kid. Of our traditions, trees, ornaments, presents…
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Christmas is coming..
Tweet ..it’s never too early to start thinking about gifts. I have decided that other than a few things I am going to bring back from Bali, I am buying gifts from Food for the Hungry. http://www.fh.org/give/catalog You can purchase things that will drastically change people’s lives and give them hope and a future. What a better way to spend your Christmas budget!
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Walk in their shoes..
Tweet This is the 9th week I have been in Saipan and it was an awful week. One of those where you step back and question, “Why am I here?” But today is Friday and one of my favorite song’s is playing right now… “and I will live to carry your compassion To love a world that’s broken to be your hands and feet and I will give with the life that I have been given and go beyond religion to see the world be changed by the power of your name” and it sorta puts things into perspective. Because today I am breathing. and I still have a job.…
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Dangerous Territory
Tweet so I found a puppy. She was sitting in a ditch and I was walking home from the store. Now first of all, I am not allowed to have pets in my apartment or on the school grounds. Secondly, I live on an island with an overabundance of dogs so unfortunately this puppy is sort of out of luck. But I love her. I put her in a very safe spot and checked on her this morning. Still alive. Tonight I brought her some water-she drank three small cups. She is covered in fleas and probably not going to live much longer. But I have been reading Irresistible Revolution…
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Environment
Tweet So I am slowly turning into a hippie. Well, in a sense.. I have been reading a lot about the environment and global warming and the “doom” we are facing according to scientists and have decided that there is not enough Christian influence on this issue. We of all people should be the first to take care of the environment. It is God’s creation and our duty to take care of it. (Genesis 1:1) I believe that if change does not happen, life as we know it will never be the same. The creatures that point so powerfully to God’s handiwork are slowly going extinct and the rainforests and…