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The other side of the world
Messages from the southern hemisphere
Created on 2004-04-22 22:44:35 (#2923527), last updated 2008-10-05
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Basic Info BioHello all!
This journal is to keep in touch with my friends and family as I'm travelling around. This way, I don't have to annoy you all with mass emails. :) Travel stories and ecua-info will be posted as often as I can update. There may also be obscure stuff related to my dissertation and general rants about life. Enjoy, and leave a comment!
Current weather conditions in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
"It helps, now and then, to step back
and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders,
ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own."
-Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, 1917-1980
This journal is to keep in touch with my friends and family as I'm travelling around. This way, I don't have to annoy you all with mass emails. :) Travel stories and ecua-info will be posted as often as I can update. There may also be obscure stuff related to my dissertation and general rants about life. Enjoy, and leave a comment!
Current weather conditions in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
"It helps, now and then, to step back
and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders,
ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own."
-Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, 1917-1980
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St. Bernadette School - Springfield, VA (1982 - 1989)Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology - Alexandria, VA (1989 - 1993)
University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA (1993 - 1997)
Universidad de Salamanca - Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (1995 - 1996)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL (2000 - present)
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