No Easy Day

I haven’t seen Tenele in three weeks, but it seems like so much longer.  I have heard from her, though.  She wrote me a letter and gave it to Ayanda’s younger brother, hoping he’d give it to Ayanda to give to me the next time they met.  Luckily for me, it was sooner rather than […]

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Prisoner of Fear

“For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.” -2 Timothy 1:7 Although nothing (“neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities…nor powers, etc”. –Romans 8:38) can separate us from the love of Christ, there is one thing that inhibits us from fully embracing his love:  […]

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Mission: To Kill…Me

 “The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.  But I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance.”   -John 10:10 It makes sense now.  Everything.  The physical fighting, the knife-threatening, the exaggerated arguing, the falling asleep during bible study, the fact that I’ve been feeling this month like the girls […]

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