Trust Without Borders

It's been a couple of wee ks since I got back from my second trip to Kenya, and I still can't quite wrap my head around everything that happened during the trip - or since I've been back . The Lord uses Kenya to absolutely w reck my world. ..there is no doubt about that. As I attempt to reflec t on my time in Af rica, I can't help but be overwhel med by the sheer fact that I got to experience something like Kenya not once - but twice. Our God is SO good.  So, in my effort to process, I'm just going to go through som e things that I think Jesus taught me and reminded me of while I was in Africa , tryin g to remember that this is a continual process of learning and growth. The only way I can really ex plain what it feels like when you come back from a trip like this one is that you feel like you've been through spiritual heart surgery. I literally feel like my heart was ripped out, cut open, sculpted, repaired , rebuilt, and shoved back in , and I have...

 #10. Prayer Well, it's obviously been a while since I posted, and I clearly didn't hold true to my once a week blogs...but I'm back! It's summertime, and a recent Discipleship Resources retreat for writers at NewSpring Church and one of my Fuse students this week reminded me of why I loved to write so much and how much I have missed it. It truly is my favorite and most productive way to process, and when I don't have it as part of my daily quiet time or even weekly routine, I never feel quite right. Six months later I still haven't completely finished processing all that was Passion 2012, and I really do want to finish. So, that's going to be my first writing project of the summer. I'm starting back with prayer and how it has become such an important part of my life since Passion. Maybe it's a good thing I waited to write about this topic, because what I've learned and put into my daily practice over the last sixth months involving praye...