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Why is it that we are so easy to reject correction or warning? Why are we so sure that our own ways are the best?
Category: Change
Making the Mile
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We are required to put a little “sweat equity” into this walk of faith. Sometimes this journey is harrowing, fraught with impossibilities – but that’s where God comes in.
Things
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Click on the link to read our latest news. Things October 2019
A Bit of a Change
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As you might have noticed, our podcast for Africa & Beyond that I've had connected here to the Cultural Misfit blog, now has not only an English broadcast but also Kiswahili/Kirundi broadcasts. Since many of you reading the Cultural Misfit don't understand these languages I'm disconnecting the podcast so your inbox isn't inundated with podcast… Continue reading A Bit of a Change
Be Nice
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Those things frustrating you, those unfair, unrighteous, unholy, difficult things that anger you - let them go.
So It Is
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Since God is after the best for me, not what He can get from me as I have thought in times past, it would seem the best course of action would be to trust His processes over my own.
Again
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Isaiah 8:11 ERB “The Lord spoke to me, like a firm grasp of the hand.”
Controlling the Chaos
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We sing songs saying, “God take control” but the moment He tries to take over, we recoil.
A Foreign Feeling
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It therefore was a foreign feeling to me when it became clear that our next assignment was going to bring us back to Burundi. I had become so used to being the one who would go scratch something out of the ground that even considering a return made my head spin.
Inconvenient Paths
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Life is hard, but God’s heart for us is “very tender.” If we can have the faith to trust His tender heart for us, we can do anything He requires of us. Most of the time the directions He gives are things that will pull us away from what is comfortable or convenient.