THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.”~Davy Crockett I spent my birthday in Austin, Texas, this past week, and I had a blast. No amount of words in the […]
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THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “You live as if you were destined to live forever . . . You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which
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THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “The soul of the world is nourished by people’s happiness.”~Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) Just yesterday, when shopping for groceries at the wonderful Food Lion, I was leaving just as a father and his
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THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “Many a false step was made by standing still.”~Unknown Amidst the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War, John Adams was quietly journaling one night when, not far away, guns fired and sent a
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THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “True peace is not the absence of some negative force—tension, confusion, or war; it is the presence of some positive force—justice, good will, and brotherhood.”~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(from his sermon, “Facing the
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THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard . . .” ~Bobby Kennedy In April 2023, I had the great honor of standing on the TEDx stage, an experience I
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THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY SENT TO MY MAILING LIST. WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE? SIGN UP HERE: https://colinshuran.com/newsletter/ “Under all this seeming want of life and motion, the world does move nevertheless.” ~Abraham Lincoln, 1856 IT WAS THE 1850s, and the issue of slavery was ramping up—more specifically, the issue concerning the
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THIS POST WAS written in the Summer of 2023. Lord, who am I to teach the way To little children day by day, So prone myself to go astray? ⁂ Leslie Pinckney Hill’s poem “The Teacher” is a piece capable of stabbing even the purest of hearts. Who are you? it accuses. How dare you?
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I RECENTLY TOOK a trip to Guatemala, as a delegate with my hometown church. It was a mission trip, in which the common question asked was, “What are you guys gonna build?” When people hear about a mission trip, they automatically assume delegates are building houses. Our delegation’s reply, though? We’re building relationships. By doing
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I am in a plight. I can not form words from my pad of common symbols, as a solitary button is stuck. It consists of a popular icon from our ABCs. I could show you what symbol it is, but I can’t. So allow moi (that’s français for you know who) to act brilliant. A
