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Eden: There Will Be Surprises

December 22, 2022 / Avery Now / 6 Comments

Hello Friends,  While I was home on Thanksgiving break, some people began to question my mental health based upon my last post and the silence which followed. I realized that I left you all on a rather dismal note. My apologies. That will be remedied shortly. For you see, on that dreary day of November … Continue reading Eden: There Will Be Surprises

Slowing Down

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 / Avery Now / Leave a comment

A wise soul told me at the beginning of the year, "Make sure to slow down, or God will make you." Well, here I am, sitting in bed. Just me and my unwritten 5-page Iberian Literature paper. It's Friday. My whiteboard calendar is covered in scribbled plans. 8:00- Spanish class 9:00- sociology class 1:00- sit … Continue reading Slowing Down

Waiting for the Sunrise

September 14, 2022 / Avery Now / 4 Comments

This was supposed to be like the DR. I'm in a strange new environment, surrounded by God-fearing mentors, waking up at the crack of dawn, overwhelmed with responsibilities...why am I not experiencing revival as I did in the Dominican Republic? Why am I not marching out of my spiritual wasteland? Exhausted by my disappointed expectations, … Continue reading Waiting for the Sunrise

Vulnerability of a Learner

September 7, 2022 / Avery Now / 1 Comment

I cannot count the times my professors have said something to the effect of: "Learning means letting go of something you thought you already knew." That being the case, I am quickly discovering that in order to learn, I must be vulnerable. It's a frightening neccesity, this opening of my mind. I hold my presuppositions … Continue reading Vulnerability of a Learner

The Prospective

June 22, 2022July 25, 2022 / Avery Now / Leave a comment

I am not merely a prospective. I breathe in the present!

"Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you."

-R. S. Thomas-

"Imagination apprehends what reason cannot comprehend."

-Shakespeare-

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