Soma Me:: Summer 2012

I had several adventures this summer:

1) 3 weeks in New York City training as a doula
Where I am isn't where I'll be
New Hero: Catherine Hamlin
nyc skyline tonight
Cooking
2) 5 weeks in Ghana working with a midwife and volunteering at a rural prenatal clinic
Hospitality and Gratitude
Relational Responsibility
the things you promise sometime ago
3) 4 weeks at home chilling, studying, being, reading, and getting ready for junior year
August Books

I was awarded a Martin A. Dale '53 Summer Award to finance this journey, and I'm so grateful. Now here's to junior year!

Quotations

"Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace." - The Book of Common Prayer

"Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.'" - Isaiah 30:21

"Pilgrims travel light." - Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle

"God does not need our disciplines in order to find us. We need discipline in order to bring some structure to our intent to open ourselves to God--alone and together. Our desire and intent is what we bring, and God does the rest." - Ruth Haley Barton, Pursuing God's Will Together

"Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer space where change can take place." - Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out

"If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." - Hebrews 11:15-16

"My heart is all of sin; but Jesus lives." - Robert Murray McCheyne

"Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, 'Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?" - James 2:16-17

"You can never go wrong in loving someone." - Immaculee Ilibagiza

Soma Me:

Summer 2012

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