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Devotional Making Disciples

Immediately

Immediately. The word rises off the page. In the Gospel of Mark

Chapter after chapter.

His straight-forward style communicating. Sudden change. Right away. 

Immediately.

Immediately. In the Gospel of Mark.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Walking, we wait

My earliest memory of waiting? “Wait a minute. Just hold your horses.”  

And the minute is never a minute. 

From childhood I push for immediate fulfillment of desires. Quick resolution of problems and struggles. Longing for what’s just out of my reach. The future.

I want it now.

So I hurry up! And wait.

photo by xu haiwei on Unsplash
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Devotional Memoir

Riptide

Hot sun, blue sky. The ocean waves were high and constant at Kuta Beach in Bali that summer of my sophomore year in college.  

It was a familiar place. Site of many family vacations. But no longer the empty beach of my childhood. 

Tourists flocked there from all over the world. And hotels lined the ocean.

Ocean waves. Photo by Jeremy Bishop, Unsplash