Category: The Seedling Journal
Greetings from Chiapas, Mexico! Get a glimpse of our garden world through posts and updates from Lost & Found International.
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He Will Carry You
Surely I am with you always. (Matthew 28:20) Never look ahead to the changes and challenges of this life in fear. Instead, as they arise look at them with the full assurance that God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. Hasn’t He kept you safe up to now? So hold His loving…
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Can You Guess What We are Growing?
Coffee beans from Chiapas!
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Trust
“Trust in him. (Psalm 37:5)The word “trust” is the heart of faith and is the Old Testament word given to the infant, or early, stages of faith. The word “faith” conveys more an act of the will, while the word “belief” conveys an act of the mind or intellect, but trust is the language of…
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He Did
“Christ . . . knows you miss the target. He knows you can’t pay for your mistakes. But he can. “God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins” (Romans 3:25 NLT).Since He was sinless, He could.Since He loves you, He did. “This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved…
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Pray On
Mary Slessor 1848–1915 Growing up in the slums of Dundee, Scotland, Mary Slessor was accustomed to hard work and long hours at a young age. Both her parents worked in the mills to provide for the family, but they were unable to make ends meet, partially because her father spent much of the money they…
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Promises
“God has not promised skies always blue,Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;God has not promised sun without rain,Joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day,Rest for the labor, light for the way,Grace for the trials, help from above,Unfailing kindness, undying love. God has not promised we shall not knowToil…
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The Gift of Good Words
“Ruth Bell Graham 1920–2007 Growing up, Ruth Bell was taught that ministry was a family thing. Her parents were missionaries in China, and Ruth spent most of her childhood there. Planning on missions service herself, she attended Wheaton College—where she met a young preacher named Billy Graham. She married him. Instead of becoming a traditional…
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Pizza Smiles
Pizza smiles.
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Homecoming
We were so blessed to have some of our older children make the trip home to celebrate Bill’s birthday. I didn’t get a picture with everyone, but here are a few. They hired a mariachi band to come and sing for Bill.
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Generations
Another sweet grand daughter is due any time now. Carlos and our daughter, Marina, are having their first baby. They’re going to be amazing parents!
