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Hello 2018! I've returned to my Tanzania home and ready to tackle the new year. Each year I try to choose one word for the year, and during my week in Sullivan's Island the word came easier and more obviously than it ever has before. "Thankfulness" It was partly influenced by this video “The Key to Unhappiness” , by PragerU. Once I had decided on this word, I wanted to read something to start the year off right. So I followed one of those blog trails and ended up finding Ann Voskamp’s book “One Thousands Gifts”, where she took a dare to make a list of 1,000 things she could find to be thankful for. It’s beautifully written and I highly recommend it. That blog trail was from God. How do I know? Saturday night I found the book and used an Audible credit to download it. The next morning on Sunday my pastor preached out of THAT VERY BOOK!!! So I was like OK God, I get it. 2017 was a year of tears, sorrow and waiting. And somehow, even if the situation doesn’t change,...

“How shall I pray? Are tears prayers, Lord? Are screams prayers, or groans or sighs or curses? Can trembling hands be lifted to you, or clenched fists or the cold sweat that trickles down my back or the cramps that knot my stomach? Will you accept my prayers, Lord, my real prayers, rooted in the muck and mud and rock of my life, And not just the pretty, cut flower, gracefully arranged bouquet of words? Will you accept me, Lord, as I really am, messed up mixture of glory and grime?” Guerillas of Grace Ted Loder