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Achia

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 I don't know where to begin; words escape me. My aunt, who truly felt and seemed like a sister, passed away April 17. Before reading on, I advise you read Achia's life story (in her obituary ) and the updates from her hospitalization (on my mom's blog ) to have a context for what I write here. She breathed her last in the hospital, surrounded by her parents and most of her siblings, after a three week battle in the PICU and hospice care. Her stomach had been left open after two surgeries which removed a majority of her small intestine, she had not been able to eat or drink anything and the sweet girl we knew slowly faded in exhaustion.  However: "outwardly we are fading away, but inwardly we are renewed day by day. For our light and momentary struggle is achieving for us a glory that far outweighs it all." Achia traded thirst for streams of the River of Life. Hunger for the banquet table of the Lamb.  Blindness for eyes which saw for the first time, her gaze imme...
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Egypt

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Welcome to Egypt! This January I was allowed the opportunity to tour the country on study abroad with my school, Moody Bible Institute. God uses many ways to provide, and I'm consistently amazed at His care. He used fellow brothers and sister in Christ, as well as a federal scholarship (the Gilman Scholarship) to get me half way across the word for an amazing adventure! He gives to His children who ask of Him and wait in submission to His will for His direction. I pray this post causes you to awe at the God who stands sovereign above all time. On the way to Egypt, I flew directly over Israel. Seeing the Holy Land caused an excitement I attempt to capture in the journal entry below. I stared out the window in awe, regularly checking the map. Below was the land where God's people had occupied throughout the ages in the ancient times of the Bible, the very ground where Abraham wandered, Isaac took his bride, Jacob returned with a family, the judges defeated mighty nations with Go...
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