tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74523385112513413792024-03-13T06:21:25.320-04:00Safer than the Known WayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-53818984414575760392012-03-19T14:59:00.000-04:002012-03-19T14:59:00.940-04:00Mercy Ministries Conference Reflections #1: Shalom<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">After a long hard week of sitting by my fragile grandmother in a hospital, I sat surrounded by church leaders and lay members all eager to learn and reflect at the 2012 PCA Mercy Ministries Conference. Thurmond Williams, a pastor of an inner city church in Baltimore, kicked off the night with a talk entitled “In the City’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i> is Your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>.” The title came from the familiar passage of Jeremiah 29:7.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Also seek the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">welfare</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>) of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">welfare</i> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>) you will find your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">welfare</i>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>).” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jeremiah 29:7</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The text for the talk though was based on Isaiah 58, as he challenged our familiarity with the Jeremiah verse and the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>. In the world of mercy ministries and community develop, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i> is a stable vocabulary word tossed around in books, lectures, and sermons, but do we really know what it means or are we just using it because it’s something everyone else uses?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">So what is the definition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I thought the answer was easy – peace, but then was quickly humbled as Thurmond explained that the Hebrew word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i>is much more comprehensive than our English word for peace. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines peace as a state of tranquility or quiet, as freedom from disquieting thoughts or emotions, or as harmony in relationships. The Hebrew word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i> goes beyond this definition. It is a complete peace – in Hebrew it actually means ‘nothing missing, nothing broken.’ And according to Strong’s Concordance <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i> means completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety, soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, and the absence of agitation or discord.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Wow. When we sit around talking about the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shalom</i> of community, we must not keep our talks merely to bringing peace – as we know it today – to a neighborhood. That is only one piece of the puzzle. Let’s talk about a community that is described as “nothing missing, nothing broken” and thus what it would look like to bring a foretaste of the Kingdom of God here on earth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span class="versetext4"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span id="re21-2">And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; </span><span id="re21-3">and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them; </span><span id="re21-4">He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." </span><span id="re21-5">And He who sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Also He said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true."” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revelations 21:1-5</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 13.5pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Why should I care about the Shalom of the community in which I live?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Isaiah 58 reveals God’s people to be worshiping God according to how they had been instructed – instructions that had been designed to help them draw near to God. Their treatment towards others – especially those on the bottom of society –exposed though that they were worshiping with their lips but not their hearts. It revealed that they did not know the God they worshiped (Jeremiah 22:15-16).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 22.5pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the LORD.” Jeremiah 22:15-16</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 22.5pt 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">If I desire to worship God, I ought to be reflecting God and being transformed into His image. Our Lord loves justice (Isaiah 61:8). Do I love and seek justice? It is not a choice. It is a command. What does God require of His people? But to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8). How we respond to the poor and the oppressed disclose what we think and feel about God. If we truly love God, it will be expressed in how our actions towards others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Neutrality and silence [on issues of injustices] always helps the oppressor and NOT the victim… worship of God is NOT complicity with a system that treats others as less than the image of God!”Diane Langberg</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Futura LT Pro Book","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">How can we say the love of God exists within us when we close our hearts to the oppressed? As we see who we really are and what Christ has did for us, then we will love God and love our neighbor (Isaiah 6, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Colossians 3:12-17). We are not saved by what we do, but what we do reveals whether we know and love God.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-80061874538683627422012-01-06T16:07:00.000-05:002012-01-06T16:07:00.449-05:00The Darkness I FearApparently there's this little hormone that can mess with the chemicals in some women's brains right before their periods and cause them to be depressed. I remember this starting to happen to me in college. I remember finding some place I could be alone and just sobbing. Took a few of these moments before I connected them to my period. Making that connection helped a ton. In the midst of the depression I would tell myself it wasn't real. Still hurt, but lost its power.<br />
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It has been a few years since I have experienced that depression... guess that's why when I started taking the pill which apparently has a nice strong dose of this said hormone... it rocked my world and took me awhile to understand that it was back. And while my body set to regulate to the pill it just kept happening over and over again.<br />
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Can't believe I'm writing this down for ALL to see. I've come along way these last few years...<br />
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Been mulling it over in my head trying to figure out how to express it to others. Here's what I wrote. Didn't intend to write a poem. Just sort of happened. And of course since it's me... it is an unconventional sort of poem following its own rules.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Brought to the edge of the cliff</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">By one little hormone messing with my head.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Innocent comments or actions</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Send me spiraling downward.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything I see</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything I hear</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Seem to prove my greatest fears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A hollow aching in my chest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Large unstoppable tears.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Pushing away the people I most want.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you explain it to others</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">When it is all in your head</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">And yet feels so real?</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-20205662169666559122011-12-14T10:21:00.003-05:002011-12-14T10:36:12.731-05:00Building my house.<div style="text-align: justify;">As new wife, I thought going a little deeper into Proverbs 14:1 wouldn't be a bad idea. Doing studies like these, I don't like to think I just know what a word is. I try and define key words and go deeper into everything. Doing that with 'joy' really did a lot for my heart and gave me a greater appreciation for that word. I thought I had known what it meant to be joyful... so anyways... here's the beginning part of my study. None of this is earth shattering. Just a good reminder for me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down." Proverbs 14:1</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches." Proverbs 24:3-4</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight (<em>synonym of understanding</em>)." Proverbs 9:10</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Wisdom builds a house. So how do you get wisdom? The fear of the LORD is the beginning of the wisdom. What is the fear of the LORD? The Fear of the LORD is reverance of God's majesty and a dread of His wrath. (Matthew Henry Commentary). [Side study - LORD: Yahweh (Hebrew): He who is. I am who I am.]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Insight/understanding establishes a house. According to the Matthew Henry Commentary this references the foundation on which the house is built. What am I understanding? The knowledge of the Holy One. Makes sense. Without a foundation of knowing who my God is, how can I fear Him? How can I stand in awe of Him?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
"Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart." Psalm 119:34</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly." Proverbs 14:29</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Obedience flowing out of moral obligation doesn't work. All the things that will build my house - make me a better wife and mother - flow out of my understanding of who God is and my fear of my LORD. A gentle & quiet heart. Being fast to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. Seflessness. Forgiveness and reconciliation. Taking up my cross.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">O LORD, more love for Thee! More love for Thee! Marriage and relationships in general reveal my heart and how little I must know and fear Thee! More love for Thee is my prayer!<br />
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"Lord, Dissolve My Frozen Heart."<br />
Lord, dissolve my frozen heart<br />
By the beams of Love Divine;<br />
This alone can warmth impart<br />
To dissolve a heart like mine.<br />
<br />
O that love, how vast it is!<br />
Vast, it seems, though known in part;<br />
Strange indeed, if love like this<br />
Should not melt the frozen heart.<br />
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The love of Christ passes knowledge.<br />
The Love of Christ eases fear.<br />
The love of Christ hits a man’s heart;<br />
It pierces him like a spear.<br />
<br />
Savior, let thy love be felt,<br />
Let it’s power be felt by me,<br />
Then my frozen heart shall melt,<br />
Melt in love, o Lord to thee.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-1518075764186202602011-12-12T13:09:00.000-05:002011-12-12T13:09:07.305-05:00update in picturesI am so far behind blogging... so what do I do when I am on hold with the Fulton County Tax Office FOREVER waiting to uncover a mystery... sign Christmas cards and update my blog.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shannon came down for wedding dress shopping.<br />
Meant the world to me!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My adopted, beloved niece - Celeste - just LOVED Shannon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drove up with Joy to get a load from Oma's storage unit.<br />
Oma here is telling me to say 'yes, and then go and do whatever I want to do.'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeremy & I in Charleston, NC.<br />
Loved getting to just walk around the cities with him and just be together.<br />
Perfect.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We surprised Jeremy's grandma for her 86th birthday.<br />
Here is sweet Grandma Taylor with her 4 boys.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeremy and I outside Grandma Taylor's home in Nashville, TN.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeremy & I at Sun in My Belly for Angie's big meeting.<br />
I think I may be a bad influence on him. :)<br />
He makes me laugh and smile so much!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">Three little diamonds on my finger and suddenly my world has been filled to the brim with phone calls, endless details, and sweet visits. That’s right, people, God brought into my life an amazing man who has so gently and <b>patiently</b> pursued my heart.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">I met Jeremy – yes, he has the same name as my brother – Taylor at East Point Church two years ago. He proposed late June 23<sup>rd</sup> in the sanctuary of our church. He told me he had forgotten his Sunday school book at church and wanted to go and get it. I almost gave him a hard time about abusing his deacon privileges, but when I saw the Bible on our normal pew with ‘Christy Anne Taylor’ inscribed on the cover I was thankful I hadn’t. We plan on marrying at East Point Church on November 12.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">The upcoming wedding also means an upcoming move, as a year ago Jeremy bought his first house in the one of the neighborhoods surrounding our church. One of the things I love about East Point Church is its parish type mentality and desire to encourage its members to move into the neighborhood. I LOVE this, but am a little sad that it will mean saying goodbye to my home in South Atlanta. I know the relationships I have developed over the past 6 years though will continue… and I always knew when it was time for my ministry to partner with a new neighborhood I probably would be leaving to set up residency there. Selfishly I am praying that neighborhood is in East Point. I would love to have my church become a direct partner with my work. But even it if it is not… I trust God to make a way for me to build relationships in the new community, and thankfully Jeremy is very open to living in inner city some day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">Other personal happenings:</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">I chopped at least 5 inches off my hair – shortest it has been in 5 or 6 years. Loving it. Enjoying the ease of wearing it waving. Feels good in the hot summer months.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">Drove up to Chattanooga to help my grandmother move her collection of holiday decorations out of a 10 by 10 storage unit. Drove back to Atlanta with a car load of decorations for a friend at church. My grandmother kept me laughing the whole entire time. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">My beloved big sis drove all the way from Nashville with her friend – Melba Anne – to do a little shopping with me. I hate shopping, so it was really nice to have her with me and meant the world to me.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">In July I wore one dress for a month, so that I might spend some intentional time learning about sex trafficking in Atlanta. A co-worker and I started a blog to share what we learned - </span><a href="http://one-dress.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">http://one-dress.blogspot.com</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Blue Highway";">. A friend of my mine in North Carolina has taken the blog over for the month of August. We hope to keep passing it along and might even have an Atlanta charter school taking it on for a month.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-54856846012422149502011-09-22T15:27:00.004-04:002011-09-22T15:30:34.324-04:00Safer than the Known Way: September Letter<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the favorite parts of my job is walking the streets. Around here I get one or two raised eyebrows when I say that, as well as an occasional crack about ‘my other job.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Generally everyone knows what I mean, though in the neighborhood there occasionally arises some slight confusion, such as this morning when the man in the black sedan with Pennsylvania tags asked me – with the sun beaming and birds chirping – if I needed a ride. When I said, ‘No, I live here,’ he in turn said, ‘I can still give you a ride <i>if you know what I mean</i>.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, I knew what he meant. And no, I am not looking for a way to earn a few extra dollars to support my drug habit. Are my eyes yellow and blood shot? No. Drug free thank you very much.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite occasional run-in’s like that, I do enjoy walking the streets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I love walking the hilly streets lined with historic bungalows. I love soaking in the sun and listening to the hum of birds singing. I love not sitting behind a desk on a beautiful day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But walking the streets is not my way of escaping from work. Walking the streets enables me to know my neighborhood. I walk with a folded 8 by 10 map of South Atlanta, pen and small notebook. I jot down changes to the infrastructure, mark code issues, and note the presence of new neighbors. By walking the streets I can tell you which areas have neighbors looking after neighbors and which are so marred by vacancies that the few remaining residents are vulnerable to break-ins and other criminal activity. And I can tell you where the drug dealers have set up shop. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Probably what I love most about walking the streets are all the random, unplanned opportunities it provides to interact with my neighbors – from the older man sitting on the front porch eating Ritz Crackers to Ms. Mary who keeps a bird like eye on her street. I love old Eddie Simons calling me up to his porch to tell me he is keeping watch over me. And lately I have loved all the concerned inquiries about the rumors they hear of me moving now that I am engaged; and I love the sighs of relief when they learn my new home is just a short 3 miles outside of the community. I love all these little interruptions – the moments of listening, laughing, encouraging and praying.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(147, 196, 125); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And by walking the neighborhood I am known. If people in South Atlanta do not recognize my name, I have been told that all one has to do is say ‘she’s the short white girl with the camera’ and folks will nod that they do indeed know me. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); color: black; margin-bottom: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">It is good to be known.</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-77701440113810477562011-09-22T11:48:00.000-04:002011-09-22T11:48:54.683-04:00blast from the past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E8yH9rrszwM/TntVYNou57I/AAAAAAAAA9o/xoezM_11aGY/s1600/wedding+photo+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E8yH9rrszwM/TntVYNou57I/AAAAAAAAA9o/xoezM_11aGY/s320/wedding+photo+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elise Duncason - Jeremy & I had a 'date' with her one day after church.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">me, carrie, jennifer, and joy - hanging out on the steps of my future home after joy & i hosted women's fellowship there a couple of saturdays ago. we took lots of funny photos and giggled so much... don't think the current Orr drive guys do that. :)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sundays</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeremy (JT) brings me coffee Sunday mornings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we started marriage counseling this week - every Sunday at 6 pm</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shoes to wear with my wedding dress</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">got them on sale for $10 at my favorite little Decatur boutique</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">South Atlanta Civic League Meeting (1st Monday of every month)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my Covenant summer intern's presentation at the SACL meeting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's a Starbucks close to the LBA... so I treat myself with a carmel iced coffee and then walk over the meeting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've been attending these meetings for the past 7 years. Rhonda told me a couple of years ago that they've watched me grow up. They called me out during the board meeting when they saw the flash of my engagement ring. :)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Representing Charis at city hall</span><br />
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my office space<br />
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downtown exploring<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">dropping off NSP paperwork at city hall... it's been a really neat opportunity to be a Christian witness... this is a statue at city hall that I just do NOT get</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-16399588735261612562011-07-07T17:49:00.000-04:002011-07-07T17:49:31.890-04:00a few photos from June & July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aXryNyLjEQw/ThYpqAR6H2I/AAAAAAAAA2g/-B_jaUz26nE/s1600/271154_690227741362_45102457_34485831_7726192_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aXryNyLjEQw/ThYpqAR6H2I/AAAAAAAAA2g/-B_jaUz26nE/s320/271154_690227741362_45102457_34485831_7726192_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Female</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">INFP (Meyer Briggs)</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; 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line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5’2</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am distinctly me. And who I am – who God created me to be – impacts and even colors how I perceive the world around me. To fully understand my actions and my words, you must fully understand me – what lies at the core of who I am. And the same goes for you. For me to communicate well with you, I need to put myself in your shoes – take the time to look at things not only through how I perceive things, but to see things through your eyes as well. I find that much of my misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and misassumptions come from my failure to look at the world through other people’s eyes.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And to my surprise this impacts even the smallest of things. Did you know that text books and even the questions on standardized tests are written largely by white people? The wording of these questions connects with children raised in cultures similar to the authors putting children raised in my neighborhood at a slight disadvantage. We need an educational system that sees the unique and adapts for the uniqueness of each child.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And because I work for Robert (Bob) Lupton</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7452338511251341379#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, I frequently get calls from all around the country seeking advice on how the caller can implement what we do in his/her neighborhood. I attempt to lay out what we do in the context of my unique neighborhood all the while explaining the importance of listening to residents, getting to know every aspect of the community, and – most importantly – praying for wisdom and discernment. And I also attempt to share that if the person does not fit the typical profile of the community, he/she needs to be extremely aware of the differences between his/her perspective and that of the community. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am at awe with how when Jesus interacted with folks while on earth He spoke directly to where each individual was. I think about how He called His disciples to how he spoke with the Samaritan woman at the well to how He handled the Pharisees. Oh how I pray for discernment from my Lord to truly see each person who crosses my path.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 225pt 0pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 225pt 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">Love, Christy</span></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not on the list in my letter, but probably should be - Worrier/Controller in Re-covery. Time Freak.</span><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7452338511251341379#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> Robert Lupton is well-known and respected in the Christian Community Development world.</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-67750097297702842172011-05-12T14:36:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:33:16.288-04:00Nikon 7000 and Holga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8hi3SeeDuRI/Tcwon6khLWI/AAAAAAAAA1w/TVBpAAeNth0/s1600/camera+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8hi3SeeDuRI/Tcwon6khLWI/AAAAAAAAA1w/TVBpAAeNth0/s320/camera+001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm looking forward to playing with a new (Nikon 7000) friend and an old (Holga) friend. The place I bought my new camera had 120 film - woo hoo. Going to go out and shoot a roll of film in my neighborhood, get it developed and then take it with a new role to New York City! So excited!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-16910227201099748932011-05-11T15:57:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:33:16.235-04:00Worst SA Clean Up of All Time<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Someone dumped a bag of raw chicken. Smelled like dead body. Maggots covered the bags - the ones in the part are just a FEW of those present. GAG!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the room as the service started - it was PACKED by the end of the service</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melanie holding onto Pastor Carter's arm for dear life.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much mother's love in this picture.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-51010230965675928332011-05-02T15:07:00.000-04:002011-05-02T15:07:00.686-04:00Safer than a Known Way (May)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I left the Community Grounds Café – the South Atlanta neighborhood coffee shop – the same time as Mia</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7452338511251341379#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mia was headed to the Bethlehem Senior Center, while I wanted to drop my camera off at home. Our destinations being just a block away from each other I suggested we walk together. Mia wanted to first stop at J’s to purchase a single cigarette. I laughing told her she didn’t want one. Then Mia spotting my flip flops decided she wanted to stop at her place along the way to change into a pair of her own. I said I did not mind waiting, as it offered an ideal excuse for sitting on the wall and talking to passing neighbors. As we were walking away from her place, Mia remembered that we had passed the tree she had wanted me to photograph. As she was directing me back to the tree, a neighbor – Dana – sitting on her porch called out hello to me. I meandered down the street to the porch to talk, and Mia followed behind me providing me with an opportunity to introduce these young women who lived so close to one another.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We bid farewell to Dana and headed down the last stretch of our short trip. At some point during those last two blocks Mia asked me about when I had done Mission Year</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7452338511251341379#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in South Atlanta. I laughed and told her that while I loved Mission Year, I had come to the neighborhood on my own right. The inner city just felt like home. As a third culture military brat I felt more at home here than in the suburban world where I looked like I should fit. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And for no real reason I found myself continuing on the conversation to share about how in Bible study we were reading Colossians and talking about how Christ is the great reconciler. Told her I had been mulling over this verse and its implications on living in a diverse community. We pondered this idea together, as we made our way down Lansing Street. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And somehow in the midst of this blabbering we arrived at the Bethlehem Senior Center where a wide eyed Mia turned to me with her mouth open but silent for a few seconds before she shared the purpose for her trip. A small group in the neighborhood nervous about neighborhood transformation had told her that she needed to choose sides – as in white or black sides – and/or (not sure which it is) make sure their list of needs – demands – whatever you might want to call them - were met.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She had tried to ditch me multiple times on the walk, as she had been afraid that one of them would see her walking down the street with me – a little white girl, but that the random conversation had been exactly what she needed to hear.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I do not remember walking the last block to my house. Awe of God’s sovereign grace overwhelmed my heart while tears of frustration over the fact that we still deal with wounds created by slavery and segregation threatened to spill. I just do not understand how anyone can look at another human being as lesser than – cannot see the unique beauty of each personality they encounter. My heart aches and desires to share the great reconciling power of Christ.<span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please pray (1) that my ministry might serve as a testimony of Christ’s reconciling work and (2) for Christians to desire to live intentionally in South Atlanta – boldly proclaiming in word, deed and being the good news of the Kingdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-31bpl2tCzQc/Tb8APb7H3DI/AAAAAAAAA0M/U63UUh0gqyU/s1600/tire+day+2011+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-31bpl2tCzQc/Tb8APb7H3DI/AAAAAAAAA0M/U63UUh0gqyU/s320/tire+day+2011+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WQU377FDw7Y/Tb8AQSP8hxI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/wfZM7edv4PI/s1600/tire+day+2011+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WQU377FDw7Y/Tb8AQSP8hxI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/wfZM7edv4PI/s320/tire+day+2011+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /></span><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7452338511251341379#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> Names have been changed.</span></div></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7452338511251341379#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> Mission Year (MY) is a year-long urban ministry program focused on Christian service and discipleship. MY takes teams of people, places them in an area of need, and helps them to serve people and create community.</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-56945141338246067542011-04-20T15:43:00.000-04:002011-04-20T15:43:25.924-04:00self-portraitI took a few pictures of myself while taking pictures of a couple of the houses we rehab - ones that were foreclosed by some bank and left vacant. They are incredible homes... the first one we rehabbed is now home to our 'dream' intentional neighbor.<br />
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Wearing my new favorite outfit in this picture. Got the jacket at the gap outlet mall this weekend - thanks to Ruth spotting it after I went around the whole rack and didn't see anything. The shirt I got from Cyndi, so sad that it's 2 years old at the least and I can't get any more like it. I have one of the Kwaj flowers in my hair. My new bangles - love... and my Fossel bag.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452338511251341379.post-90473924773047391872011-04-19T16:58:00.000-04:002011-04-19T16:58:05.146-04:00SAM's Club on way to retreat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ft48A9fTKbk/Ta326ktGo-I/AAAAAAAAAzI/onJYaTqiu5E/s1600/iphone+037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ft48A9fTKbk/Ta326ktGo-I/AAAAAAAAAzI/onJYaTqiu5E/s320/iphone+037.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iyjRnIlatYs/TayYMvIf0vI/AAAAAAAAAxI/w8gCWgIwKeY/s1600/epc+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iyjRnIlatYs/TayYMvIf0vI/AAAAAAAAAxI/w8gCWgIwKeY/s320/epc+016.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> I met up with Kimberly Bynoe, Allison Duncanson and Ruth Fowler at 6:30 AM to drive up before the rest of the women to decorate the cabin, grocery shop and cook. We decided next time we need to come up the night before... we were exhausted by the end of the day. It was all worth it, but I definitely was asleep the moment my head hit the pillow. We had two very FULL cars by the time we reached the cabin - we stopped at a SAMs in Knoxville for a little shopping. We definitely were not short on food that weekend.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iev41Zczd30/TayYQj1tsiI/AAAAAAAAAxM/FFGCO_zvP2s/s1600/epc+036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iev41Zczd30/TayYQj1tsiI/AAAAAAAAAxM/FFGCO_zvP2s/s320/epc+036.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> The boxes contained hand printed t-shirts (thanks to Ruth Fowler who makes all our t-shirts) and a piece of jewelry that was picked out for the personality of each women. The jewelry all had some sort of verse on it. Mine was perfect for me.) The bags contained a small notebook, pen and the next book we'll be studying together at our monthly Saturday brunch.<br />
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