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Cuba is a land of great challenge. Yet even though it faces these challenges, there is an atmosphere of great hope in Cuba. There is a sense of imminent positive change in the air. And yet, who knows how much of that change will materialise. The USA is trying to mend their relationship with Cuba, […]

Today is the day we are wrapping up our Cuban adventure. Time to check out of our resort and board a plane back home to Canada. Soon I can tell you what we actually did in Cuba while we were there. I have hung around enough missions teams and have enough world experience to know […]

Well hello there! We should now have been loving on Cuba for four days. It is hard to pre-write posts like this. I can’t predict our adventures or misadventures in Cuba. Often as people we struggle with the hero complex. We desire to help people because they need our help. We help them because we […]

If all went well, we have now been in Cuba for two days. The Cuban experience is on its way. Since I am writing this post before I ever leave, I have no idea what has really happened since we got to Cuba. In all likelihood, Cuba is going to change a lot over the […]

All my life I kept hearing that everybody should keep a journal. And more than once, I resolved to give it a try. But every time, journaling with consistency eluded me. Everywhere I turned, people were telling me that journaling was one of those habits of highly successful people. Even though everybody kept telling me […]

The journey to your best life may well weave. Learning is part of the process. We can’t go far in life, advance very highly, without failure. And failure always puts a crook in our path. After Monday’s post on embracing God’s design for my life, a reader asked me: “what if there are multiple pathways […]

You would think it would be easy to embrace God’s design for my life. After all, if it is what He designed us for, it should come naturally. Maybe it does for you, but for me it is a battle. I always had an incredibly clear sense of vision as a boy. A sense of […]

I have dreams! Big dreams. But here is the thing; big dreams come with big doubts. And sometimes the doubts become so big, I am afraid my dreams will die. Dreaming big is easy. Super easy if you have no plans of actually doing anything with them. Three kinds of dreaming But dreaming dreams that […]

Perhaps the hardest time for faith is when God brings out the pruning shears. It is easy to believe He wants what is good for us when everything is growth. It is when the pruning begins that I start wondering if God really has my best interest at heart. Why is it so hard to […]

Without faith it is impossible to please God. And we all want to please God, so is my faith too small? The short answer is, yes! I have long since come to terms with the fact that my faith is too small. And guess what, I don’t think it condemns me anymore. Because my righteousness […]