Ahhh, I’m back. Last week I went on my second trip to Haiti, the first being last summer. This one was different than the last in many ways. This one was a medical mission. I was one of only four youth on the trip. I got to travel to a few new villages I hadn’t […]
Archives for February 2018
Reality
Reality. What is it? I mean… really. What is this notion of existence that we call reality? The dictionary defines it as “ The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” The alternate definition is ” The state or quality of having […]
He Knows My Name
I recently joined a group for young writers such as myself to get together as a community and share our knowledge. This group, the Young Writer’s Workshop, was started by a man by the name of Brett Harris, who wrote the book Do Hard Things and launched the Rebelution Movement along with his twin brother Alex. Now, […]
Oh that God would Make Us Dangerous!
I was writing a research essay on the missionary Jim Elliot for school, and I came across a quote that really struck me. It goes as follows: “We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are “harmless,” and therefore unharmed. […]