by Emily | Apr 20, 2024 | Freedom, Love, Serving
Traveling to Chile I was excited about going to Chile, the country where I was born and lived the first eight years of my life. My last visit was after the massive earthquake in 2010. My focus then was providing psychological first aid in a town that had literally...
by Emily | Nov 26, 2023 | El Camino de Santiago: A Devotional, James, Love, Serving
Devotional Day 26 Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you...
by Emily | Nov 25, 2023 | Anxiety, El Camino de Santiago: A Devotional, Freedom, James, Serving
Devotional Day 25 Come now, you who say, “Today we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while and...
by Emily | Nov 17, 2023 | El Camino de Santiago: A Devotional, James, Love, Serving
Devotional Day 17 But are you willing to acknowledge, you foolish person, that faith without works is useless? Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result...
by Emily | Nov 16, 2023 | El Camino de Santiago: A Devotional, James, Joy, Love, Serving
Devotional Day 16 What use is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and...
by Emily | Nov 11, 2023 | El Camino de Santiago: A Devotional, James, Serving
Devotional Day 11 But prove yourselves doers of the word, not just hearers who deceive themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror, for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has...
