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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

Seem or be?

Seasoned servant. Leaving, after spending many years in the dark city by the river. Her parting advice to one of our colleagues is borne out of long experience in the spiritual battle. 

Those insightful words reach my ears at a retreat in the Himalayas. 

One phrase sticks in my heart. And comes to mind, from time to time.

“Do you want to seem holy? Or be holy?”

Dark city by the river. Image by Lewis J Goetz, Unsplash.
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Set free on the Sabbath

She’s a walking picture of brokenness. 

For more than eighteen years, this daughter of Abraham suffers a spiritual disabling of her physical body. She moves through life unable to straighten up at all. Bent over, face to the ground. Seeing dirt. Rocks. Feet.

Eighteen years of facing dirt, rocks, and feet—wherever she goes.