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Be a Blessing

Posted on May 11, 2018May 11, 2018 by stufffromthestuff

When I was a teenager, my mother would send me off to school every morning with the words, “Be a blessing!” While these words bore little immediate fruit, by the time I was in my early twenties, they had come to form the basis of my sense of vocation, of who and how I am … Continue reading Be a Blessing

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