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Why I Wore a Dress For the First Time Since My Wedding Day: Meeting the Maasai

Margaret — May 22, 2013 — 7 Comments

Why I Wore a Dress For the First Time Since My Wedding Day: Meeting the Maasai

I don’t know why I gave up wearing dresses, perhaps because I never wore many dresses growing up on a sailboat.

I like dresses. I just don’t buy them very often.

But I knew I needed something special to wear to meet my sponsored child, Nairesiae.

A week before we left for Africa, I found the perfect black dress and a red scarf.

It wasn’t until after we arrived that I discovered my sponsored child is Maasai. The color of the tribe is red.

Wonderstruck, indeed.

We drove more than two hours from Nairobi on pitted, punctured roads to the project. Singing and dancing awaited us. Continue Reading…

Sunday Still: Breathing Life into Others & The Wonder of Restoration

Margaret — May 12, 2013 — 3 Comments

Sunday Still: Breathing Life into Others & The Wonder of Restoration

“The wonder of restoration is exemplified through the visions of an exiled Old Testament prophet, and realized throughout the life of Christ. Continue Reading…

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How My Faith Has Changed Since The Organic God

Margaret — May 10, 2013 — 9 Comments

How My Faith Has Changed Since The Organic God

Over the last year, my friends at Zondervan have been hard at work taking the hardback version of The Organic God and bringing it to paperback. Since the book’s release in 2007, more than 50,000 people have been through The Organic God book and 6-session DVD Bible Study.

The new paperback version makes my husband, Leif, who carries the majority of books around the country to events, very happy.

But it also made me happy, because the re-release gave me the opportunity to take a good, hard look at the book and reflect on how I’ve changed since The Organic God over the last six years. Here are some areas of change: Continue Reading…

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God Is With You Even In This (and a Wonderstruck Wednesday Challenge)

Margaret — May 8, 2013 — 12 Comments

We are created for a relationship with God, and that means we’re meant to experience God’s presence. We need God’s presence and the awareness of His nearness if we’re going to grow into the fullness of all God intends. Apart from His presence, we can begin to convince ourselves that somehow God is distant, somehow we can handle things on our own.

Maybe this is one reason God keeps echoing throughout Scripture, “I am with you! I am with you! I am with you!” [Tweet this] Continue Reading…

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Sunday Still: Awaken to The Holy Who

Margaret — May 5, 2013 — 5 Comments

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“Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. Continue Reading…