Find yourself 30 minutes to sit down and do nothing else but watch this.
Smith Family Story from Matthew Singleton on Vimeo.
You can read their blog here after you’re done.
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I just made a visit to my old elementary school, and turns out my old grade six teacher is still teaching there. I ended up being asked to come back and speak to the school about future possibilities as a returning student.
It reminded me of the incredible need for intentional living. Too often [...]

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To illustrate my last post.
Eight years ago, I spent a summer living in a house (supposedly an old brothel that had been renovated, but that’s another story) with five other guys. It got so dirty with our lack of cleaning, by the end of that summer, there were foot-high mushrooms growing out of the [...]

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Three stories I’ve read online in the past week have made it into my real-world conversations.
Check out:
Strangely Beautiful by Deana as she shares about her ‘dysfunctional family’
Cindy Beall shares her story in five short blog entries/chapters on the day her life completely changed
and oddly, Alan’s post on the toronto blizzard that ‘excused’ people from going [...]

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I’ve been volunteering weekly at Sanctuary for the last few months.
The first time I was there, I was surprised how many guys were playing bridge…
I ask, “Where’d you learn to play bridge?” (As I’m thinking only grannies play bridge).
“Jail”, one guy says
“oh”.
I talk to another dude who’s sketching and has some wild tattoos on his [...]

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I can never speak too much of my brilliant wife. Here’s one post I’ve shared of her and another. Not only is she a stunner and a super mom, but there is no other person I would ever want to live this incredible adventure of life with.

During one of our long car rides [...]

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Many of my friend’s homes look like Ikea, but my new home actually is Ikea.
For six-days a week, for soon to be four weeks now, I’ve been eating and working at Ikea. It’s the same routine each day. I play with Stellar around 6am-9am. I do a five minute drive down [...]

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Have you ever been out walking, noticed a dog, and stopped to play with it, and then realized you never once even looked at the owner in the eye? I did once, and when I looked back I saw look of disgust staring back at my blind eye.
A friend of mine came by a [...]

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I think you’ll enjoy this one - recapping Stellar’s first four months of life.
Make sure you’ve got the volume up for this.

If you’re having problems viewing the clip you can try here or here.
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What if the whole earth was actually filled with the glory of God?
What if all of creation is groaning and hoping for even more beauty yet to be revealed?
What if since the beginning of time all creation has been screaming out that there is more to life than the visible?
* You can read a bit [...]

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