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This morning driving to the airport at 630 am, we hit some congestion on
the expressway. Too much congestion results in a clog, kinda like a
toilet does.  When lanes get clogged, no one can pass, and people beep
their horns. People are impatient and selfish, not letting anyone merge.
Accidents create bigger messes on an already clogged or congested
expressway due to impatience or a lack of focus.

A stack of books.

What if our lives were already
written in a book? It would be the best story of adventure, romance, and
mystery. Wouldn’t it be so nice to go down to the local library, and
checkout or just buy the biography all about your life a head of time?
To know the characters who would stick through to the end, to see the
repercussions from decisions made, or the blessings they would become.

 

Hey! If you’re reading this, it is the first time you’ve been to my blog! Yippee! Jump to the very last page and read a blog post called LTEL… gives detail to what this is about! Here’s a scoop: Live the extraordinary!! I have created a blog while on Spring Break that captures my ordinary […]

As
I am sitting on my bed at 1030 pm, when I really should be laying down
and closing my eyes to sleep, I just can’t put this off any longer.

INDIA HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE! Everything from prostitute villages, to HIV children homes, hospitals, slum medical camps, and Hindu street evangelism, we have seen it all. Everything from slumdog millionaire children, poverty, and more. We’ve seen desperate children with knife wounds, missing limbs, etc pulling on our clothes at an outdoor Hillsong concert, on street corners, […]

Imagine This… Every morning you wake up in your own sweat. Stop… what do you think of India right now… haha… I LOVE THIS PLACE!! Ok.. keep imagining this… You are driving down the street in an SUV with windows that do not go up and the wind blowing in your face. India music plays […]

I
am sitting in my room @ 2 pm on Sunday. The last few days have been so
funny with the weather. Friday, cool but then insane storms and thunder,
buckets and buckets of rain… Saturday, a blizzard blows through with
the high of 30 degrees and sheets of snow, layers upon layers… and
then today, 60 is the high with sunshine… what the blazes!!??

1.
At birth I was named Laura Noel, and later it was changed to Maggie
Jeanne. My name means “Pearl.” It is the only rare gem or precious
“stone” that is formed by life (a living thing: clam). I am full of
life… how ironic.

Everytime
I am in this house i get great revelations… I had a simple one about a
week ago and it came back today too… it goes something like this….

I
am in the kitchen, yes men, I am cooking. I am with 2 little kids and
we are making a welcome home cake for their parents who have been gone
for 4 days. I am also in the process of making them breakfast, they want
cinnamon rolls… I realize that already this morning I have had
yogurt, some cereal, chai tea, an english muffin, and im about to eat a
cinammon roll…hmmm yummy, so good.

 

I have quite a lot to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day. After pounding tons of food, feeling like my belly might be full like “twins,” I sat downstairs, just talking with the women of the house about family and God and literally, just our lives. Where we’ve been, where we’ve come, everything in […]