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Balcony or Basement: The Way We Speak

Posted by Laura on 6:07 pm in Blog, Communication, Culture | 0 comments

Balcony or Basement: The Way We Speak I interact with countless people everyday. Students, parents, colleagues, my own children, my husband, the cashier in the grocery store. And everyday I have a choice to make. Balcony or basement? Will my response lift someone up or pull them down? So many times a day, a look, a smile or frown, or an answer empowers me. I often don’t even realize that what I say and do will affect those around me. Oh, I get the big stuff – the compliment, the insult, the sarcasm. But the offhand response – or the...

A Perfect World…

Posted by Laura on 5:59 pm in Blog, Faith & Life | 0 comments

A Perfect World… “Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.” (Elisabeth Elliot) When I’m discontent, when I long for more, help me remember that it’s simply part of the wooing. May I not long for the things of this world and settle for its pleasures. May this world be to me...