Daily Sheet: Day 143: Willingness
Family Book: “Grandma and the Pirate”
Travel: Djibouti; Somalia
Daily Sheet: Day 135: Curiosity
Family Book: “White Water”
Travel: Solomon Islands
Song: “Shepherds Watch” – Michael Card
Daily Sheet: Day 134: Reverence
Family Book: “Come Sunday”
Travel: Vanuatu; New Caledonia
Video: “Let Your Glory Fall” – Don Moen
Daily Sheet: Day 133: Thriftiness
Family Book: “Sunday Outing”
Travel: Fiji Islands
Video: “All I Need” – Sara Groves (magazine cut-out collage)
Video: “All I Need” – Sara Groves (stop motion video)
Daily Sheet: Day 119: Groundedness
Family Book: “Migrant”
Travel: Colombia
Video: “Home from Home” – Roo Panes
Song: “This Cup” – Sara Groves
Video: “I Am Mountain” – Gungor (official music video)
Daily Sheet: Day 113: Commitment
Family Book: “Silver Threads”
Travel: British Columbia
Song: “I Commit” – Margaret Becker
Daily Sheet: Day 112: Joy
Family Book: “Before You Were Born”
Travel: Moldova; Belarus; Ukraine
Song: “Shouts of Joy” – Phil Keaggy
Daily Sheet: Day 108: Perseverance
Family Book: “The Butter Man”
Travel: Western Sahara; Morocco
Video: “When The Saints” – Sara Groves (images from the persecuted church; with lyrics)
Song: “Mistral” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 101: Belief
Family Book: “I Believe: The Nicene Creed”
Travel: Congo
Video: “Creed” – Rich Mullins (with introduction by Rich)
I hope I would leave a legacy of joy; a legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is a great joy in real compassion. I don’t think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people, caring enough about people that you actually do something. But I have a feeling like if my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I will probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live in the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sorts of things, that’s the only time I think that we really leave a great legacy. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. My ambition to be a good guy is a fleshly ambition. And when Christ calls us to take up our cross and follow him, a lot of us think that what that means is we’re supposed to lay down our vices, and we’re supposed to cling to virtues, but I think that unless Christ is Lord of our virtues, our virtues become dangerous to us and dangerous to the people around us. I think that when Christ calls us to take up our cross, what He means is you must die not only to whatever vices are in your life, which he will eventually kill out, you must also die to whatever virtues are in your life. Your life is not valuable because you are an articulate speaker, your life is not valuable because you are a generous person, your life is not valuable because of any of that. If we empty ourselves of everything and allow God to be present, then it’s no longer us, it’s Him. Then it becomes a spiritual thing. And that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. And that’s when I think Christianity really begins to make sense.
Video: “Creed” – Rich Mullins with Third Day (with Croatian subtitles)
Daily Sheet: Day 97: Tolerance
Family Book: “The Relatives Came”
Travel: Seychelles; Mauritius
Song: “When It Was Over” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Oh love wash over a multitude of things, love wash over a multitude of things, love wash over a multitude of things; Make us whole.
There is love that never fails; There is a healing that always prevails; There is a hope that whispers a vow, a promise to stay while we’re working it out, so come with your love and wash over us.
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