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24 Sunday Mar 2013

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2013, beautiful, belief, Busy, Church, CMC, College, EMU, Faith, family, love, Photos, Post Secret

Dear Friend,

I’ve been reading a lot of Post Secret recently… it acts as a great stress reliever because I’ve been bottling up some crazy emotions in just working my way through the day. All in all I feel like I’ve been too busy to do things that are worthwhile… I love the classes I’m in, and enjoy the time I spend in class, but some of the work outside of class just feels so pointless to me aka. “do I really NEED to write about this if we’re already talking about it in class…” this semester has just been feeling so hectic and crazy… but also lonely. I have some of my closest friends super far away, true, but I’ve also been struggling to make time for the friends that are here! I see my roommates everyday, but I haven’t been able to just hang out an laugh with them for WAY too long. Anyways, so I’ve been using Post Secret as a short-term coping mechanism until I have can actually do what keeps me sane in the long-term. It’s all about self-care, right?

But actually, the reason I’m bringing all of this up is that I received a beautiful care package today from my church family and I felt like the only way to express how much I appreciated it was to create a Post Secret-like image that combined words with pictures… and maybe that’s just because I’m a visual person, but I think also because Post Secret is like poetry, where a little says a lot.

Love, Mandi Jo

P.S. I suggest creating your own little postcard images… even if you don’t send them off into the great unknown… it can be a great way to express yourself.

P.P.S. I believe in you too…

 

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This We Believe… An Introduction

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

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Beliefs, Church, Faith, Spirituality, This We Believe

Dear Friend,

Tonight begins a relatively short time of discussion in my life about faith and spirituality. That is to say it’s the first of five evening in which I will meet with various individuals from my church to discuss life experiences, the Mennonite Confession of Faith, and just what we believe. We will be meeting every Tuesday night for the next few weeks (not including Holy Week) with different topics being:

Experiencing Faith-Spirituality
Living in Community- The Church
With This Sign, I Thee Wed- Baptism
Can I Be A Good Person?- Discipleship
Sin and Salvation- What do these words mean?

Now I don’t know about you, but I love talking about what and why we believe things… so this is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever done. Hopefully I will learn a lot, use wisdom in choosing my words, and remember to update you every week about our discussion!

Love, Mandi Jo

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