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I’ve been using Wordpress to host my blog since 2005. Without a doubt I am a huge fan of Wordpress and the open source community of developers that make it as versatile as it is.  One such site has been WPDesigner.com previously run by Small Potato. The site changed owners earlier this year and is now owned by a guy named Pawel Ciszewski. Apparently, since purchasing the site in March and posting an introductory post there has not been much activity at WPdesigner. The site …

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“Our children need to join us in this ministry of identification (with the poor). We do them no favor by hiding them from suffering and need. If we imprison them in ghettos of affluence, how can they learn compassion for the broken of the world? So, let us walk hand in hand with our children into pockets of misery and suffering.”
-Richard Foster in Freedom of Simplicity

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My friend Connie writes…
From a 3 yr. old while saying goodbye:
3 yr. old: “I like your eyeball.”
Me: “Thanks.”
3 yr. old: “I want to eat it.”
Ummmm. OK.
Conversation with a 3 yr. old:

3 yr. old: “Do you like to be alone?”
Me: “Sometimes. Do you like to be alone?”
3 yr. old: “Ummm, only if there is someone with me.”