Tag: Summer
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Summer’s Bounty
Today the gnats were gyring in the dying summer breeze. I watched their bodies catch the sun’s rays as they lifted towards the trees glowing. An incalculable vastness. Those drifting blazing winks of light which had gathered all around me murmured a truth I oft forget: the glory of the infinite who reaches down to…
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bleh
I feel like i am in some sorta slump… probably related to the fact that school starts tomorrow. I spent all weekend doing small things–reading the paper, riding my bike, cooking. In many respects an awesome weekend, now that I think of it; just that I feel that there is so little that is noteworthy…
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Observations from Ords
So ords are almost over and, as I have struggled to finish my exegesis exam, I have learned a few things and made a few observations about how they affect one’s personal life. Without further ado: 1) There is no better time to execute a complete facelift of one’s blog than while sitting in the…
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Reflections and retrospections
It’s my day off, and not a moment too soon. This summer has been amazing, but also incredibly frustrating, sometimes ridiculously unbearable, and I am still trying to sort out how to make sense out of my experiences. I have found myself in a community that is doing things that I care deeply about and…
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These days, it feels as though every week here I find myself crushed upon by those who don’t care for my personality… every week I find myself brought to tears over something. This sucks ass.
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Post-group vent.
so it has been a long week, not only physically but especially emotionally and spiritually. And after it all, I find myself feeling many many emotions that are swirling around, everything from excitement to intense despair to a sense of confusion and loss. We had a group here from Grand Rapids this week, and they…
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Experiences to remember
Funny and sadly disjointed experiences from Broad Street so far: 1) (said by a regular attendee at Sunday dinners to two 13-year-old girls visiting with their youth group): “So tell me, why is it that you two girls are in here eating with us instead of ‘walking the avenue’ on South Street? What I mean…
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new bike!
It’s Saturday, pretty much my only full day off from this internship each week, and A and I decided to explore West Philly in depth. We might have done this with R and M if they were in town, but they are both up in Boston visiting friends for the week, so we went on…
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Summer in Philly
Whew! So a week’s worth of work has been I-N-T-E-N-S-E… Just for my own sake, to document all that has happened thus far: I unofficially started here last Saturday, when I dropped by to check out the church and ended up meeting Nick and Peter, two of the other Youth Initiative interns at BSM for…
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Thanks be to GOD!
I don’t know the details yet, but I do know this: I got offered a job on Broad Street Ministry’s Youth Initiative Staff for the summer!!!! This is gonna be awesome… I have been praying about it and hoping for it, and I am so super stoked to get the opportunity to do this. Thanks…
Deeper in me than I 