"Imagine Your Life Without Fear." "When fear shapes our lives, safety becomes our god. When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. Can the safety lover do anything great? Can the risk-averse accomplish noble deeds? For God? For others? ...No. The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear." -Max Lucado

Radical

RADICAL from David Platt on Vimeo.

Parent/Rap song

To all those Parents out there...this is pretty funny!!! Check it out!!

Walking for Water

This is a video of a 14 year old boy experiencing what life is like on a daily bases for those living in Ethiopia....We take water for granted or a least I know that I do!

Walk For Water from A Glimmer of Hope on Vimeo.

Eva's Hair day with MiMi.....

community

"People in Eastern cultures are not so worried about schedules and quotas and sales figures and returning emails and phone calls quickly. They are interested in personal contact. They are interested in firm handshakes and good food and strong coffee and sweet tea and looking in a man’s eyes to see if he is a good man or a bad man and whether he can be trusted or not."Joel Rosenberg; Inside the Revolution

I Love, LOVE, Love this quote!!!! Its interesting that last night I was talking to a friend that I just meet from Ethiopia and she was saying that she misses the community from home...for example when you make coffee you never drink it alone....there is usually 10 to 15 people that show up to just talk about the day....she then said that when she first moved her she made coffee and was getting ready to knock on all the neighbors door in her apartment building to come have some until her husband informed her that is not what they do hear....but why not...why are we all so busy that the most important things in life like relationships are not as important to us as watching our favorite tv shows on DVR.

I think my friends idea is genius and I think that I am going to make some coffee and invite the neighbors over.....

LOVE ETHIOPIA!!!

This weekend we went to Chicago on Sat. for an Ethiopian lunch....it was GREAT and so yummy as always....the kids even said "it is yummy in my tummy"

We had BUNA!!!!

Then on Sunday we had a GREAT time with our ETHIOPIAN community!!!
So very thankful for all of them!!!

What did you do this weekend?

Saturday!!!

Our Saturdays with the Fam!!!

What do your Saturdays look like?

Gobena Coffee @ Passion 2010....

Happy Fathers Day!!

Happy Fathers Day to the BEST DAD EVER!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!