The Consilium Podcast, Episode 8, Julie Hulstein
Julie retired from teaching music in public and private schools in 2010, thinking she would become a full time “grandma”. But a mission trip to Haiti changed all that. After experiencing the extreme poverty in there, she carried the stories and faces of those she had...
Journaling Love Letters to God
“Letters mingle souls.” —John Donne “You show that you are a letter from Christ…written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” —2 Corinthians 3:3 As a new Christian, though I loved my heavenly...
Unshelving My Purpose After Years of Neglect
When I was a high school freshman, I approached my English teacher, Mrs. Richard. My appetite for words urged me to ask her where I could buy one of the books we used in class—The American Heritage Dictionary. She looked up from the papers she was grading, red pen in...
Created with a Purpose: Living in the Same
What is purpose? The dictionary says purpose is the reason for which something exists or is done, made, or used; an aim or goal with an intended or desired end or result; determination; resoluteness; to act with intention with an anticipated outcome; the quality of...
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