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Month: August 2017

Beauty

It has officially been two weeks since I arrived in Slovenia. This country is astounding: mountains, rivers, countrysides, castles, European aesthetic everywhere. Constantly students and citizens tell… Read more “Beauty”

August 21, 2017July 6, 2018 by samhodge22

Post-Slovenia Update

Hey everyone! This month has been a whirl-wind of growth, growing pains, spiritual battles, and spiritual life and I’m excited to tell you all about it. As… Read more “Post-Slovenia Update”

August 3, 2017 by samhodge22

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“Your peace comes over me and finally I rest, I rest. Divinely beautiful you came into my world. You are the lifter of my head, now my heart will follow. Though I am weak it doesn't change the way You think about me. And when I fall, I fall on You for Your grace surrounds me.” [Divinely Beautiful, United Pursuit]

“This love doesn't leave me all alone and it never forgets its own. This love won't leave me because my past is bad and this love lifts me up above the waves. I don't need to be overwhelmed. Oh, and it raises me upon a rock so my feet can finally stand on ground. It’s every moment of every day, always.” [This Love, Housefires]

M O V E. Thankful for chances to share gifts and make welcoming spaces for students to experience Christ.

Happy New Year everyone! I’m struck this week by the incredible power, love, and intentionality of God. Winter Conference was a great end to 2018, allowing me to use my unique talents and gifts to help others (and myself) worship and know God. I love my job. I’m entering 2019 knowing that Christ meets us in each and every moment and enables us to be agents of both eternal and temporal reconciliation. I’m praying this year that Christ would be my all in all in each instant of each day. // “Lord I come I confess. Bowing here I find my rest. Without you I fall apart. You’re the one that guides my heart. Lord I need you, o I need you. Every hour I need you.”

I wrote a blog post about Shame. It took me a while to process the thoughts I’ve been having about shame and grace and life and truth and put them to words. Everyone struggles with shame at some level, and my thoughts during my wrestling were thunderously hoping to escape for the wider world to have a chance to process. If you’re interested in giving them a read, check out the link in my bio/on my page.

This is my dad. We’re laughing because we kept poking each other in the side while my mom took this picture. My dad cares for me and for others - a LOT. I’m very thankful for my dad.

GIFTS. Beloved, cast off the weight of giving and producing good gifts from your own self. Only the LORD God knows what each person’s inmost being needs and longs for. Only He can make the plant grow. So sow the seed and water it where He May give you the soil to do so, but remember that without Him the poinsettia never grows to be given. Remember too not only that God is able and willing to give, but His ability and willingness to give never changes. Even more, He never casts as much as a shadow that seems like He may change. Beloved, our deep wounds, sinful hearts, and the enemy will all lie to us trying to tell us the LORD God has removed His favor from us, but we can rest assured their words are untrue. And this is our assurance: that He first grew us and brought us forth as gifts to His throne. By the Word who was in the beginning with the Father, who is the Father, and by whom all things came to be, we have been made the choice offering, perfect without blemish, to the LORD. Through Christ we are received by God. We rest in this assurance that God gave us the gift of becoming a gift to Him and that God never ceases to give good and perfect gifts (like He made us to be) to us, His children.

simultaneously becoming less and becoming ourselves paradoxically

#beardlesssam . . . biggest fears currently: -no one I’ve met in the past two years will recognize me -I forgot how terrible winter wind is on a beardless face

“It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?” [Miller, 71]

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