SamafasLife in a different culture

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  1. November 23, 2009

    It was Time

    Yep. I had decided that wrestling with my hair was too much, so I did the best thing that anybody could do… cut it all off.

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  2. September 13, 2009

    Starving Yourself Can Be Healthy

    It started from a feeling that God was asking me to fast… after all, fasting is talked about all through the Bible. Then it continued with a realisation that most of the food I was eating was not really good for me. Finally, it all came to…

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  3. August 31, 2009

    Correcting Your Mistakes – on Camera

    The successes, and failures, of trying to fix an expensive video camera with the wrong tools.

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  4. January 21, 2009

    Birthday in Oz

    When I turned 40, it was a really big deal. Unfortunately for me, the people around me did not think the same way, and so my 40th birthday came and went without any fanfare at all. I guess when you are in the middle of Peru, surrounded by…

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  5. November 13, 2008

    Where Has the Help Gone?

    Loaded with a huge pile of books balanced precariously on top of each other, I turn the corner for the umpteenth time and pass through the crowd of young people gathered outside after dinner. One jumps up from his conversation and walks…

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  6. June 9, 2008

    Conquering the Snow

    A Day of Small Beginnings It was a bleak day when I set out towards town, ducking down to follow alongside a burbling stream with the aim of walking along the rocky beaches facing Lake Nahuel Huapi. This was a more preferable route…

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  7. July 31, 2007

    Fleeing for My Life

    What just happened to my friend Paul and me still has my head reeling. It felt like I was living a movie scene… except they were real people chasing me, with real bullets flying over my head… and I was in some serious danger.

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  8. August 4, 2006

    Instantly Healed

    Although I believe that God can heal, it is very rare when I am praying for somebody that they are healed right then on the spot. You see, my mum was healed of the fast acting strand of multiple-sclerosis over twenty years ago, and my…

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  9. May 3, 2006

    Identifying and Obeying Our Values

    A doctor seated beside me told me of how he and his Catholic priest would head over to his place for a number of beers. Sometimes they would get so caught up in their conversations that they would drink until they had become drunk. His…

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  10. December 7, 2005

    What are “labels” except division

    So many times I have heard people talk about this denomination or that denomination or this “religion” or that “religion” and so on. The reality is that we are all simply people standing before a living God. All of this talk simply creates…

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