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Posted 2015-11-29T13:12:59Z

American Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a very North American holiday. The BFA community celebrates it for a month - first Canadian Thanksgiving, a couple weeks later dorm Thanksgiving, and this past week was full of American Thanksgiving celebrations. We don't get any official days off, but the English speakers get together and eat lots of food. Last weekend, I celebrated American Thanksgiving with my family group as we all gathered and ate and even shared some thoughts on giving thanks. We all wrote down five things we were thankful for this year and five things that we'd struggled with this year. It wasn't hard for several people to connect that many things on the struggle side had directly led to the things on the thankful side. [...]

Posted 2015-11-14T14:34:20Z

Just a Minute

I had an idea of what I was going to write about yesterday, but everything changed the minute I looked at my Facebook today. I first saw a notification that someone I know was "marked safe during Paris Terror Attacks." The rest of my news feed was primarily made up of comments about the attacks and people across the world praying for the city. Everything changed in that minute.[...]

Posted 2015-11-07T19:45:24Z

Refilling

Sometimes I worry that people are getting tired of my recovery story, but then I have the kind of outpouring of positive responses like last week that remind me there are still hundreds of people encouraging me and praying for me. Thank you.[...]