December 2010
2 posts
“When we realize that life is a gift and we are overwhelmed with a sense of...”
– Erwin McManus
A faith of formulas
Life is complex. The idea that you can break it down or fix it in a few steps is rather silly. The truth is, there are a million steps, and we don’t even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them. And, still worse, they are different for you and me and they are always changing. I have come to believe that the sooner we find this...
November 2010
3 posts
Scenes
In life, the only way we are able to make meaningful things out of our time is when we step aside from the ordinary and do something memorable. It’s not about a certain action that does it, its the way you go about doing it.
“I don’t think memorable scenes help a story make sense. Other principles accomplish that. What memorable scenes do is punctuate the existing rise and fall...
What kind of life are you living?
The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to
know what a person’s story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don’t want anything, we are living boring lives. If we want a roomba vacuum cleaner, we are living stupid stories. If it won’t work in a story, it won’t work in life - Donald miller
Fear
“the most often repeated commandment in the bible is ‘Do not fear.’ it’s in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn’t let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to...
October 2010
4 posts
Perspective
In costa rica, employees, by law get a 5% raise every six months. With that kind of increase, what company could afford that?
Why would you hire anyone?
“Settle down chicken little, they’re just acorns”
forward
“We all hear voices in our heads and have visions erupting out of our brains that disrupt our daily routine and beg us to tear ourselves away form the mundane life. Something stirs deeply within is, calling us out, inviting us to pursue and discover that which we do not know. All of us are called to a place we have not been. Our lives were always intended to be journeys into the unknown. The...
“To accomplish great things, we not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but...”
– Anatole France
September 2010
1 post
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get...”
August 2010
18 posts
“I used to think the sum of what we have makes us who we are.
Now, however, I’m...”
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them...”
If you make it, they will come
Today, Friday, was the second day of the women bringing their hand made crafts to the mission. Yesterday, I got a couple items that were brought to the mission for this project. (pictures to come when i get back to the states).
One lady, brought a pencil holder, made out of a bamboo chute. She took the bamboo chute, painted it and glued ground coffee on the outside to give the item texture and...
it's hard to describe this in words...but..
Well, I am in Costa Rica. I arrived late last night, much to everyone’s chagrin. Flight was delayed 3 hours and we made it back around 12:15 or so. It made for an early morning this morning. But, what can you do? Nothing. The airline industry will do as they please.
Anyway, so today, Tuesday, i had the privilege of meeting with some of the women in Pura Vida’s sponsorship program. The...
“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the...”
Beginnings are scary
So as i continue on with this adventure of starting the non-profit, i think the biggest thing that i’ve encountered is that one question leads to 10 which leads to another 10. Most recently i’ve gotten reassurance in the strangest places.
Last week i was walking to get ice cream with Kristen and the ice cream store we just happened upon had a display near the register of bracelets...
“Your playing small does not serve the world.”
– Marianne Williamson
“Possessions in my hands will never be as valuable as peace in my heart”
– Dave Barnes
“You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out...”
Life with Beth →
My friend Beth gave me a shout out on her blog! you should check it out!!
Big things start as little things
I am currently trying to raise money for supplies. If you have read about what I’m doing and feel compelled to help, please get in contact with me. My email is DoSomethingThatMattersCR@gmail.com. I can use all the help I can get, monetarily or support wise. Even $10 would be a big help, $10 can buy supplies for someone to make 50 bracelets. Honestly, every little bit helps. If you have any...
July 2010
19 posts
“No place is every too far when your heart is already there.”
“if you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do...”
“What’s important is faith expressing itself through love”
– Galatians 5:6b
“it’s our turn to redefine and reshape and dream it all up again....”
– Rob Bell
Sometimes you know where you should go before you...
As i look more into this idea of making my own job and bringing opportunity to others that they wouldn’t be able to have by their own accord, it excites me. It’s just enough out of the box that it suits me really well, but i can still see the box, and it’s familiar. The next step is to try and raise the money necessary. Honestly, that seems like the easiest part. The most...
“What you do with your life is really just half of the equation. The other half,...”
“For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky....”
– Romans 1:20
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“I came, i saw, i panicked, i cried, then said “don’t be a wuss,...”
– Julius Caesar
Hey, Dream Big
Unfortunately, these days, when someone tells you to dream big, its usually in a sarcastic tone, or after a half-hearted pat on the back. There really isn’t any fire behind the statement, it’s mission that belief. But it’s funny that a lot of people refuse to think outside of the box enough to actually dream big. People have great ideas all the time, way to improve things that...
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those...”
– Franklin Roosevelt