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Christmas Story… Humility… Why? How? December 20, 2025
Truth… Lies… Weeping… November 23, 2025
TB… Pregnancy… Miracles… Samaritan… Hunger… November 2, 2025
Marco… Rosalina… Augustinha… Martina… Caring… Bucket List… October 5, 2025
Sebastião… Teresa… Weeping… Rejoicing… Serving… September 11, 2025
Wind… Riches… Caring… Battlefield… Why/What… Misfits… Vision… August 8, 2025
Mariana… Gate Keepers… Emilia… Mateus… Truth… July 22, 2025
Cavango through the eyes of Shivangi, a visiting U.S. medical student June 27, 2025
Honor… Betrayal… Family… Swamp… Redemption… June 15, 2025
Messele… MAF… Maria/Graciana… Beneficiaries… May 7, 2025
Visitors… Resignation… Seeds… Alfredo/António/Ana… Isaiah… April 20, 2025
Luke & Rachel… Manuel, Bernadina, Tomás… Cost/Benefit… April 6, 2025
Gratitude… Cavango 2024, 2025… February 2, 2025
John… Following… Cavango… 2025… January 1, 2025
A Friend… Marcos… Loss… Nobodies… November 7, 2024
Uniquely Beautiful… Delusions… Faithfulness… August 11, 2024
Liza and her Father… July 28, 2024
Briefly… July 14, 2024
Eyes to See… Ears to Hear… June 15, 2024
Fernando… Madalena… Cost vs Sentiment… May 26, 2024
Visitors… Saturday… Go… May 14, 2024
The Wind… Que Será… Greater Love… Fruit of the Vine 🍇 April 20, 2024
Mornings… Wind… Inflation… Care… March 24, 2024
Money… Wind… Faith Choices… Cavango Statistics, Activities, Goals… March 3, 2024
Burden… Philosophies… Stories… You… February 18, 2024

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Proverbs

What passionate Jesus-lovers “gain” is disregard for their own ambitions, disregard for their own success, and disregard for their own comfort. They become concerned about others’ gain and become burdened with compassion toward those hurting. They embrace living with less so that others can have more. They go to where there is need, with disregard for their personal “security”, safety and happiness. They don’t ask their Father to satisfy their hunger and they aren’t consumed with their own wants and health because they “take no thought” of their temporal desires so that their lives can be consumed by responding to the hunger and loneliness of their friends and enemies (Kingdom love). They know whose they are and where they are going, and this enables them to have no earthly concern for “bread”.

If you are today facing earthly affliction, illness, loss, or tragedy, you have been placed in a position of great potential usefulness to your Father and to others. For a short season, you’ve been chosen to enter the cold darkness of pain and/or loss, to radiate warmth, light and your Father’s presence where it is not expected. Your response to your pain (seen by those around you) gives evidence that light (even a little) is so much more powerful and beautiful than darkness.

“When our lives come to be written at last, God grant that they be not only our sayings, but our sayings and doings.” -Spurgeon

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” -Epictetus:

Being misunderstood is a given when walking with Jesus.

As the healed blind man can forget what it was like to be blind and take his sight for granted, we can take our Father’s presence with us for granted and forget what life is like without Jesus. As the seeing man can choose to be blind again, we can choose to live independently of our Father, each with its respective consequences.

We can live today in expressed gratitude and worship for His demonstrated love for us, for the joy He has in us, and that we can trust Him that EVERY detail (pleasant and unpleasant) of our lives has an eternal purpose…

In one thousand years your painful, tragic circumstances will look differently as you embrace your once-lost loved one, as you are embraced by someone who saw Jesus when he saw you walk with Him through your earthly pain and loss… and as you are embraced by another that met Jesus because you could relate to her brokenness and hunger and truly care…

There is nothing more beautiful than a genuine smile that radiates from a joyful heart!

Our joy in another affirms their value and warms a cold and lonely heart. It is similar to how knowing Jesus transforms us. Nothing “lifts my spirit” more than remembering my Father’s joy in me…

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