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Mary Family Adventures: June 2013
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Sunday, June 30, 2013. Here is an update about our last week in South Africa. This is our team about to leave Pilanesburg with our two safari guides, Marone and Scott. Saying goodbye to Samantha and Rodney! When we returned from our safari trip, we did a couple of days of "debriefing" to prepare to come back to the states. We spent one day at the Botanical Gardens just outside the city to reflect on all we learned throughout our time in SA. It was so beautiful and such a relaxing day. Our goal was to fin...
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Mary Family Adventures: Home Sweet Home
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Sunday, June 30, 2013. Here is an update about our last week in South Africa. This is our team about to leave Pilanesburg with our two safari guides, Marone and Scott. Saying goodbye to Samantha and Rodney! When we returned from our safari trip, we did a couple of days of "debriefing" to prepare to come back to the states. We spent one day at the Botanical Gardens just outside the city to reflect on all we learned throughout our time in SA. It was so beautiful and such a relaxing day. We are an Indianapo...
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Mary Family Adventures: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Last weekend we had everyone here at our house for a team retreat! The purpose of our retreat was to build team unity and vision for the summer. We had fun together, spent time in prayer, and set goals for the summer. One of the highlights was having our neighbor, who is a rugby coach from New Zealand, meet us at Holliday Park for some lessons. :). Rugby is a sport foreign to many Americans but is common to South Africans. We decided to put our skills to the test. I am really exc...
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Mary Family Adventures: March 2013
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013. South Africa: round #1. Our Indianapolis friend, Samantha, and Tim, who we will be working with all summer, greeted us at the airport. It was hard to be friendly since I felt so sick! It felt great to finally get into bed that night. We awoke the next morning to jungle sounding birds, and thankfully I felt back to normal! We had a yummy breakfast at our bed and breakfast. (However, I did find a few ants in my granola! Tim and Zwai helped us navigate this huge city! One of the mos...
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Mary Family Adventures: Safari!
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Monday, June 24, 2013. Our goal was to find the "Big Five" (Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Water Buffalo, and Rhino). We arrived at the Ivory Tree Lodge in awe at how beautiful the place was! After a delicious lunch we were told tea time was at 3:30pm and our evening game drive departed at 4:00pm. Thankfully the Lodge had babysitting services, so the kids hung with Alice in our room while we went out for an amazing adventure. Pilanesburg National Park was beautiful! The buffalo were too far away to get any goo...
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January | 2013 | { Ruminations }
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In Light of Eternity. January 17, 2013. I recently read a blog post. Talking about being resolved. While we are called to live by the Spirit ( Galatians 5:19-25. Spiritual maturity isn’t going to happen naturally. If we’re going to grow in our faith, we have to be resolved to do so. But Daniel resolved not to defile himself. With the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way (emphasis mine). But Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah refused to be ...
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Beyond the Walls | { Ruminations }
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In Light of Eternity. February 11, 2013. In Patrick Carman’s first book of. The Land of Elyon. The Dark Hills Divide. A couple things struck me about her story. First, walls may provide protection but they also keep life out. I myself am a professional wall-bulder. I build walls to shield myself from rejection, pain, failure, the unknown. I’m sure there are more reasons but that’s quite enough to be getting on with for the moment, don’t you think? Knowing me, I’d likely stand frozen in fear. I ...Wouldn&...
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Catching Up: Resolve | { Ruminations }
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In Light of Eternity. January 17, 2013. I recently read a blog post. Talking about being resolved. While we are called to live by the Spirit ( Galatians 5:19-25. Spiritual maturity isn’t going to happen naturally. If we’re going to grow in our faith, we have to be resolved to do so. But Daniel resolved not to defile himself. With the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way (emphasis mine). But Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah refused to be ...
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July | 2013 | { Ruminations }
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In Light of Eternity. July 31, 2013. My small group is currently doing a combined study of. By John and Stasi Eldredge) and. By John Eldredge) and one of the recent chapters we read in. Discussed both the importance of friendships and the levels of friendships. First and foremost, we have to recognize that we need. The answer, of course, is that I can’t. I’m reminded of Lena in. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She was very practiced at hiding herself in plain sight, never letting anyone new close ...
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Mary Family Adventures: Mandela, Meat, and Rugby
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Mandela, Meat, and Rugby. Baby, it's COLD outside! I kept hearing South Africans talking about the winter that was coming but it has been so warm that I thought we were going to get lucky. But this morning the weather just snapped and it turned cold! The guest house staff just brought me candles. :). We have had a busy couple of weeks since I last updated and only have two more weeks here! A visit to Soweto and a tour of Nelson Mandela's home, the day he was put in the hospital.
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