tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404351878375202888.post5198973898271227944..comments2023-05-23T09:40:57.771-05:00Comments on Letting His light shine through my life: It's an action, not a feelingAlanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16786894817766961634noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404351878375202888.post-67011452874521457002016-03-12T19:30:11.838-06:002016-03-12T19:30:11.838-06:00Yes, that makes good sense to me, and it's suc...Yes, that makes good sense to me, and it's such a simple thing that anyone can learn to do. I said simple, not easy! I've been trying to learn for years and years to be a better friend to each person in my life, and my progress is agonizingly slow.Jim Habeggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320817826382769445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404351878375202888.post-22833481442922055672016-03-12T19:19:09.046-06:002016-03-12T19:19:09.046-06:00That's a good idea.
A huge part of why I am t...That's a good idea. <br />A huge part of why I am the way that I am, and believe as strongly as I do, is because of people who poured into me durring my teen years. People who loved me unconditionally through mistakes that I made, while guiding and teaching me the right way. Alanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16786894817766961634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404351878375202888.post-86558419723178259212016-03-11T10:23:56.312-06:002016-03-11T10:23:56.312-06:00Alana, I just had an idea about what your "so...Alana, I just had an idea about what your "something bigger" might be. I was writing to a friend who is concerned about post-grad, young adult Christians falling away from the church, and it occurred to me that what I was saying might be something to share with you too.<br /><br />What I said was that what can be done with youth in their pre-teens and early teens, to help prevent them falling away from the faith, might be far more consequential than what can be done later. Another thought is that recruiting people in their late teens for that work with younger people, might be a good way of keeping their faith alive, revitalizing it, and putting it to work.<br /><br />I would see that as really, really big.<br /><br />That's just a rough, half-baked idea, but maybe it will give you some new ideas of your own.Jim Habeggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320817826382769445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8404351878375202888.post-77163275317144477032016-03-10T20:47:47.431-06:002016-03-10T20:47:47.431-06:00My heart was bursting with joy, reading this. Read...My heart was bursting with joy, reading this. Reading more books. Love is doing. Something bigger for you. This is all so exciting! Now I'm in tears, thinking of how far you've come since you started this blog, and even since I started following it.<br /><br />I get caught up in life a lot too, and I always feel like I'm spending way too much time just doing things that are easy and fun for me.<br /><br />Many years ago, in my high school and college years, I prayed and prayed for God to make service to Him a passion in my life, like the passion I had for math, electronics, geometric paper constructions, and some of my other hobbies. He did! Not to say that I'm doing it very well. I never feel like I'm doing it well enough, but it is one of my passions now, like I wanted it to be.Jim Habeggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320817826382769445noreply@blogger.com