By Maria Ciola
“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” Try telling this to an overwhelmed college senior about to jump headlong into “real-life,” and see the reaction you get!
Read more“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.” Try telling this to an overwhelmed college senior about to jump headlong into “real-life,” and see the reaction you get!
Read moreWhat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, or something like that. Right?
Read moreI’m a full-time missionary. It’s easier to say that I’m an inner-city youth minister, or even an inner-city van driver and poor Kool-Aid maker, but the job description says, “full-time missionary.”
Read moreThere is a scene in the movie Mona Lisa Smile when Professor Katherine Ann Watson (Julia Roberts), the progressive new professor of Art History at Wellesley College shows her students a black and white photograph of a young woman. “This is my mom,” she says, “is it art?”
Read moreWhen I was in High School, if someone would have told me that in college I would be visiting inmates once a week, I would say they were crazy.
Read moreEvery week I set aside time solely to sit down and watch an online talk. Recently, I watched an old talk and one thing he mentioned really stuck out to me – “God didn’t bring you out to deep waters to drown you. He brought you here because your enemies can’t swim.”
Read moreA few weeks ago, I experienced real frustration in prayer. I held an intention that was good, and genuine, and born out of love, yet in response to my request I heard what seemed like a big, resounding ‘no’. The plans I had envisaged didn’t eventuate, and in turn my hope resembled something more like despair.
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