Language Learning Tip, #2

SING!
That’s right–songs are one of my favorite ways of learning new vocabulary and making sense of sentences in a structured context. New things stick with music (think The Alphabet Song  or The Alphabetagamma Song).
I am very visual, so even with this auditory language learning activity, I still like to have the words written down.  When [...]

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Fact, feeling, faith and today’s pain

I am hurting today. For all the implications of what is going on with my housing situation. For baby Caleb and his family. He is still not doing very well. And for some friends who are facing and still trying to recover from some situations where “difficult” is an understatement. Many different types of suffering.
While my [...]

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Interior Castle free download

Christian Audio offers a free audio book each month. This month’s book, available now for download, is Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila.

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"Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings"

Lingamish suggested the song with that title as an alternative to replace the one he got running through my head yesterday. Being the cultural illiterate that I am, I had never heard of it. Just from the title though, I had a reaction to it (an emotional reaction, of course!)
I get frustrated sometimes by the [...]

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Line Dancing & Tough Psalms

Okay, there’s no connection between the phrases on either side of the conjunction in my post title. But, I don’t have the mental energy left tonight to come up with a creative title. Things are not looking too hopeful today for us to be able to purchase the home I’m currently living in. The whole process [...]

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Language Learning Tip, #1

I’ve been mentally compiling a list of the things that make language learning fun and (sometimes) easier for me. This is certainly not the definitive word on how to learn language. It is just a compilation of some things that have worked for me and that comfortably fit my personality and learning style.
I’m the kind of [...]

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Prayer wanderings and wonderings

It is no secret that prayer is hard for me.  This post is some honest wondering and rambling as I continue to wrestle with what it means to ask God things. Thinking the thoughts I think towards God is not hard for me. Sharing my feelings, without having to pass through words, with Him is [...]

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I Pray for the World–Europe

The latest in the “I Pray for the World” series is up at Kouya Chronicle.
Do you have four areas of concern from your part of the world, for which you’d like us to join you in prayer? See Lingamish for how you can contribute to this series.
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Relevance

This picture, which is part of a series posted on Emerging Grace, has been on my desktop for several weeks now, hooking the question of relevance into my brain in a very visual way.
In my last post, I said, “if I’m going to believe something about God to be inherently true, it cannot just be true in [...]

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