Can I Love Until It Hurts?

“If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt,  only more love.”  -Mother Teresa I’m at the point where I’m in need of the latter: more love.  Love certainly hurts.  When I left La Crescent to move here, I cried for obvious reasons.  I needed to grieve the life I was leaving […]

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New Creation

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” -2 Corinthians 5:17                  It’s a Friday night, and that means movie time!  The girls giggle in excitement as we momentarily argue about which movie to watch; since we’ve made it through my narrow-themed DVD selection […]

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Give Your Best Anyway

“Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.” –Mother Teresa On Sept. 2nd, I wrote in my journal, “It seems like the problems are so large, how do you even help these girls without hurting in the process?”  For the past two weeks, I feel like […]

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