rebelling against low expectations
If only I could write like so-and-so does. Oh, and this other person is extremely gifted in drawing. Why can’t I be popular and outgoing like my other friends? Comparison clouds the heart. It saps the joy right out of you. God has woven a unique set of skills into the core of each one of us. You are incredibly gifted in ways I could never be–and vice versa. But if I compare my life to...
Voting is the essence of our responsibility as Christians and young adults to let our voice – your voice – be heard as “we the people.” I implore you, my generation, do not be silent! If primaries have not occurred in your state yet, please find out when they will be held and then vote.* North Carolina (my state) will be one of the five participating in Mega Tuesday: one...
Quiet and quick, the hush of expectancy blanketed the dilapidated room with fragile silence. I prayed. Gazing among the faces around me in the remand home or child prison of “M1” in Uganda, I noticed their contagious eagerness–it sparked courage within my heart. Beautiful words of loving care for them tumbled from my lips like they were always meant to be spoken. I knew the Lord...
rebelling against low expectations
