For part one, click here!! https://livingwelljournal.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/road-trip-pt1/ Sunday morning we were greeted with some disappointing news: it was raining at the beach in Maine where we were planning to visit Thiago’s uncle Fernando’s family. We optimists donned our bathing suits anyway and took off for our day trip to the East coasts’ northernmost state….
Road Trip! (pt1)
I have been craving “vacation” for quite some time now. It has been a year since I had the opportunity to get away from the normal routine and explore uncharted territory, so to speak. My friend Thiago was planning a trip to Boston to see his grandmother, whom I have met twice before and absolutely…
New
Without pain there is no birth. 2012 wasn’t a lot of fun for me. I’ve lost relationships,lost my grandfather, gained a few pounds, fallen flat on my face, and been forced to reevaluate what it means to be a Christian and part of a church. Sure, the cruise to the Bahamas was fun but overall,…
Finally, Spring
Tonight I feel the urge to blog, although there is both too much to say and too much I’d rather not say. For the sake of being authentic, not for sympathy or judgment or whatever, I will try to get some of this past year on <paper?>. It’s been a tough year, friends. As I…
Just thinking..
Read this on a blog and thought it was beautiful. I’ve been thinking alot lately about how the Lord Jesus intended his church (aka the people who know and love him) to function as a body of believers, and this spoke to me in its simplicity. “If you’re looking for the 9 marks of a…
Family
Psalm 68:6- “God places the lonely in families; he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy. But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.” Last night at Community Group, which is our weekly small group time for fellowship and Bible study, we played Cranium. It was so fun and it was great…
Please don’t read this.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.” So failing at obeying this passage right now. I’m not quite sure where or how it started but I have been pretty much doing the opposite. I have had a hard time praying,…
Fool means idiot. Or some kind of clown. Either way, it’s not good.
This upcoming Sunday is the Fourth Annual Celebration of my 29th birthday. That’s right, I’m an April Fools’ baby. Thank goodness for 1 Corinthians 1:27 which states that “God uses the foolish things of this world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” Phillipians 2:5-8 5-8″Think of…
It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you..
Hi!! It has been quite a while since my last post..so long in fact that letters z-v quit working on my keyboard in protest. Lots of new things happening,though life seems the same in most regards. Still in Richmond, though I am now in the part of town called Union Hill (a sub-section of…
God’s way compared to ours
There are so many beautiful things about this place we call Earth. But we can’t escape the fact that SOMETHING is not right. Somewhere along the way things got messed up. One thing that reminds me of this truth is the caution that we must take around strangers. Robberies, murder, rape; all realities in the…
