I am posting a picture of our tile from the Hands of Hope Wall at Shepard's Village - Langfang China. The Bentley's lived and worked at the Village during most of the time covered in the book - "Saving Levi: Left to Die; Destined to Live" by Lisa Misrage Bentley. I just finished the book this week. It is a very powerful book...really makes you think about all those coincidences in life. There is a wonderful quote in the book from Donald Miller's Through a Painted Desert :
"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter.... My hope is your story will be about changing... about learning to love a child... about learning to love others more than we love ourselves... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it? And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."
You just gotta love Donald Miller. After all, he went through that Painted Desert in a Volkswagen Van - Quality Transportation!!!
Happy Valentine's Day from our house to yours! If you still haven't gotten Valentine's for those special people in your life - take a look at the Love Without Boundaries website. Tonight we are having some leftovers for dinner and sending the money we would have used on a Valentine's Dinner to help sponsor a life giving surgery. What could be better than a gift of a healed heart, a healed lip or a full tummy! http://www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/HowToHelp.php
"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter.... My hope is your story will be about changing... about learning to love a child... about learning to love others more than we love ourselves... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it? And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."
You just gotta love Donald Miller. After all, he went through that Painted Desert in a Volkswagen Van - Quality Transportation!!!
Happy Valentine's Day from our house to yours! If you still haven't gotten Valentine's for those special people in your life - take a look at the Love Without Boundaries website. Tonight we are having some leftovers for dinner and sending the money we would have used on a Valentine's Dinner to help sponsor a life giving surgery. What could be better than a gift of a healed heart, a healed lip or a full tummy! http://www.lovewithoutboundaries.com/HowToHelp.php
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