Significance

Name any significant experience you've had in the past three years and how it has changed you. (Stina)

I can't help but agree that everything in the past (two years for me) has changed me. You have certainly been one of them and a comrade-in-change as well. Two specifics stand out to me. The first is meeting Dean Graf. The moment I met him, I knew that the kind of teaching I wanted to do was possible when so many had told me it was impossible. He brought God to life for me and into his classroom too. The second is reading through the entire Bible cover to cover. I'd read the whole thing before, but wading through the enormity and depravity of the old testament saints set a scene for Jesus I'd never known before. Jesus is good and Jesus is needed. Simple you say. But of course the most profound things are. More floods to the brinks of my fingers, but you asked for one and I've already given you two.

What is your ideal home? (Lindsey)

In short, my ideal home would be where enough of God can be had. I love the times of familiar warmth and laughter within my parents house, I love the comfort of friend's company and the belonging that comes from years of living daily life with the same people. The world seemed to have more of God in it when I was younger and my family and friends were not leaving for foreign lands and the other side of ours. I want to rest in him and not feel like I am lying in the dirt. (Is this getting depressing or what.) God's promise: They shall dwell with me and be my people and I shall be their God. Sigh. I am so eager.



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