some pics as I fly away...
Getting ready to head off on another adventure tomorrow. Can you say "excited"?
But as I pack my bags and tie up some loose ends before my adventure begins, I'll leave you with some pics from some recent excursions...
My mom celebrated her 52nd birthday yesterday...
We were supposed to go for a plane ride to see the sunset in a Cessna 172, but it didn't happen, bummer...severe thunderstorm warnings and little planes don't mix well...(the one day this week that had bad weather), but the clouds were quite awesome (even though they prevented our flight)...some other time.
But as I pack my bags and tie up some loose ends before my adventure begins, I'll leave you with some pics from some recent excursions...
My mom celebrated her 52nd birthday yesterday...
We were supposed to go for a plane ride to see the sunset in a Cessna 172, but it didn't happen, bummer...severe thunderstorm warnings and little planes don't mix well...(the one day this week that had bad weather), but the clouds were quite awesome (even though they prevented our flight)...some other time.
Grandma Fraser...
Grandpa Maguire...
Dustin...he loves to hug me...and of course I love hugging him
Dustin and I also love to have fun...that's us playing basketball...(photo courtesy of my dear friend Moriah, thanks for the comment yesterday, all the way from India!!)
Zachy wants to do everything his big brothers do...
me and my boys at Meijer Gardens...
Joy and the boys in the treefort
my little sister Becky is soon to be a mommy...you can't see her big belly under that table there...but she's getting ready to burst!
and, for fun, a little sailboat in the North Channel-part of Meijer Garden's fountain, much like the one I sailed on in the North Channel (only, this is smaller, and not really seaworthy)
my friend Kristin...who's galavanting around Europe herself, and who I'll hopefully meet up with somewhere in England next week! Drama!!!
Stay tuned for updates and pics from England and Spain...no promises though! Time is of the essence and I'm sure my 17 days will speed by much faster than I want them to...so, until next time...live it up, wherever you are, and invest in and enjoy the people God blesses you with!!
Much love to all of you!
I leave you with some powerful thoughts to ponder from Steve Saint's book End of the Spear:
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Much love to all of you!
I leave you with some powerful thoughts to ponder from Steve Saint's book End of the Spear:
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I remembered what a close friend would often say when faced by a difficult decision: 'A hundred years from now, who will care how successful we were or how comfortable our lives were? What will matter then is what we invested our lives in.'
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I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life.
I believe that what happens in the world and in my own life is not the result of mere chance, just as I believe that life itself is not the result of a chance encounter of critical compounds meeting by accident in some ancient primordial soup. I believe that the same Intelligent Designer who created me has given me the freedom to make choices within the script of my life. But I also believe that, Waegongi [Waodani word for God], the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.
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I wanted to give up and go to my US 'home' and a lifestyle that had become familiar. But I realized I feared living a safe but mediocre life even more than I feared suffering beyond the reach of help in the rain forest.
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I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life.
I believe that what happens in the world and in my own life is not the result of mere chance, just as I believe that life itself is not the result of a chance encounter of critical compounds meeting by accident in some ancient primordial soup. I believe that the same Intelligent Designer who created me has given me the freedom to make choices within the script of my life. But I also believe that, Waegongi [Waodani word for God], the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.
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I wanted to give up and go to my US 'home' and a lifestyle that had become familiar. But I realized I feared living a safe but mediocre life even more than I feared suffering beyond the reach of help in the rain forest.
posted by FaithChristine @ 16:04
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are you the qute one on the left or the right.
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