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A gazillion steps away

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An illustration from inside "African Heartbeat". ©2011 World Vision
Though my children are getting old for picture books, I can still talk them into snuggling with me on the couch every now and again to read with me. And if I’m really lucky, the kids will ask me to read them a bedtime story. When I got African Heartbeat from World Vision by Barb Christing, I made sure that I gathered up the kids and sat down for......
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What I love about my mom

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Sabina and her daughter Dorcas in Kenya. ©2010 Jon Warren/World Vision
I always wanted to be just like my mom. When I was a little girl, I used to write her letters, telling her of the admiration I had for her beauty and grace, and that she would be my best friend forever. Just a few months ago, my mom reminded me of those letters. She told me just how much she adored those scribbled, misspelled notes from the 5- and 6-year-old me. Her favorite was one that I had so appropriately titled on the outside of the envelope, “What I love about my mom,” proceeding on the inside to name 20 of the things I loved most about her. Even as an adult, that list continues to grow. I add...
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A “mom” to walk beside me

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Carla with her daughter and her mother. Photo courtesy of Carla Swanson Gawthrop.
At 24, I moved across the country by myself for a new job. At the time, my parents, as empty-nesters, moved to London, making the distance between us much, much farther — six time zones away. Having recently graduated from college, with a big move and new job before me, I was asking myself the typical “20-something” questions: What did my faith mean? What was God’s plan for me? Would I ever get married?! As a beginning step to discovering those answers for my life, I started volunteering with my new church’s youth group. One of the girls’ parents, Kay and Sandy, invited me over for dinner. Through Kay and Sandy, I was given what seemed like the two greatest...
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Easter in Colombia

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Martha, 11, and Mara, 7, outside their home in Colombia during Lent. (WV)
Editor’s note: Celebrating Easter, including its preparation, is distinct to religious tradition and cultural custom. Candelaria, a World Vision community volunteer, and her daughters Martha and Mara describe how their family prepares and celebrates Easter according to Catholic tradition in Colombia. The following post was written by World Vision field communicators Ivon Curevo and Astrid Zacipa. There is a Wednesday ever year in which Candelaria, 29, and her husband Carlos, 46, go with their daughters Marta, 11, and Mara, 7, to the nearest Catholic Church to receive from the priest the imposition of the “Cross of Ashes”. “You are dust and to dust you shall become,” says the priest, while drawing the symbol of the cross on their foreheads with...
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But then came Sunday…

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But then came Sunday… | World Vision blog
Just a few weeks ago, I walked in those places where Jesus walked in the Holy Land. It dawned on me yet again that Jesus did almost everything differently than conventional wisdom would have dictated. I visited Capernaum and Galilee, where most of His three-year ministry took place — a “hick town” ten days’ journey from Jerusalem. Not the best location to start a movement that would change the world. I also walked in the Garden of Gethsemane, where He prayed in agony that night — and then on to Jerusalem, where He appeared before Caiaphas and Pilate, and where He was beaten and spit upon. Jesus was no conquering hero in the manner of Caesar or Alexander the Great....
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