Comments on: Bubble Tea Epiphany – Soaking In The Different http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/ Free to embrace the Imperfect and call it an Art. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:54:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mandy http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/comment-page-1/#comment-3488 mandy Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:56:27 +0000 http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=1541#comment-3488 Thanks for the comment Jessica. I'm glad my writing and my "messy" life connects with you. I hope you'll continue to stop by! Thanks for the comment Jessica. I’m glad my writing and my “messy” life connects with you. I hope you’ll continue to stop by!

]]> By: Jessica http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/comment-page-1/#comment-3484 Jessica Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:47:15 +0000 http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=1541#comment-3484 Mandy, I am an avid blog reader and I have no idea where I found your blog. All I know is that I added it to my favorites some time ago and haven't read it because I didn't know what it was. Tonight I just clicked on it and decided to look around. I have to tell you that I am more of a blog stalker than commenter. I always think to myself, really, like they really want to hear from me, or do I really want to put myself out there? I have to tell you that I love your writing and the things you have to say. Mainly because I think you are so real and the things you say make me think about things. I don't know if the Holy Spirit deals in the business of blog commenting, but I have to tell you that it was the Holy Spirit that made me write this comment. For some reason I was unable to just move on. I want to tell you that I think you are a beautiful person with beautiful insight and God is certainly working through you on this blog. So thank you so much for being so REAL. It is refreshing. God Bless, Jessica Mandy,

I am an avid blog reader and I have no idea where I found your blog. All I know is that I added it to my favorites some time ago and haven’t read it because I didn’t know what it was. Tonight I just clicked on it and decided to look around. I have to tell you that I am more of a blog stalker than commenter. I always think to myself, really, like they really want to hear from me, or do I really want to put myself out there? I have to tell you that I love your writing and the things you have to say. Mainly because I think you are so real and the things you say make me think about things. I don’t know if the Holy Spirit deals in the business of blog commenting, but I have to tell you that it was the Holy Spirit that made me write this comment. For some reason I was unable to just move on. I want to tell you that I think you are a beautiful person with beautiful insight and God is certainly working through you on this blog. So thank you so much for being so REAL. It is refreshing.

God Bless,

Jessica

]]> By: Abbi http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/comment-page-1/#comment-1809 Abbi Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:56:23 +0000 http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=1541#comment-1809 OH, I SO relate. :) Love you. OH, I SO relate. :) Love you.

]]> By: Mandy http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/comment-page-1/#comment-1807 Mandy Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:53:41 +0000 http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=1541#comment-1807 Karen - my husband is the same way. And I to want to raise my kids where they feel free enough to try something different and to think outside the box. Cori - What's the study you are doing? Karen – my husband is the same way. And I to want to raise my kids where they feel free enough to try something different and to think outside the box.

Cori – What’s the study you are doing?

]]> By: Cori http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/comment-page-1/#comment-1803 Cori Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:26:16 +0000 http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=1541#comment-1803 I've been doing a study through my church that has led me to really question what is from God and what is my culture, my white, middle class upbringing, like you mentioned. It is sometimes so hard to separate. We had missionaries at our church Sunday who shared about bringing God to a different culture and trying to fix some church plants that were botched because the missionaries tried to push the traditional American Christian church experience on that culture. So, culture is important, too. We can't really have no culture. God did have me be born into white, middle class America. I've not arrived either! Never will, but good stuff to chew on. Great thoughts, as usual, Mandy! I’ve been doing a study through my church that has led me to really question what is from God and what is my culture, my white, middle class upbringing, like you mentioned. It is sometimes so hard to separate. We had missionaries at our church Sunday who shared about bringing God to a different culture and trying to fix some church plants that were botched because the missionaries tried to push the traditional American Christian church experience on that culture. So, culture is important, too. We can’t really have no culture. God did have me be born into white, middle class America. I’ve not arrived either! Never will, but good stuff to chew on. Great thoughts, as usual, Mandy!

]]> By: Karen http://www.messycanvas.com/2009/06/bubble-tea-epiphany-soaking-in-the-different/comment-page-1/#comment-1795 Karen Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:54:10 +0000 http://www.messycanvas.com/?p=1541#comment-1795 mandy, I am so glad I am not the only one who has her heart beating in her chest at something like that! I had that feeling the other day just for taking a different route I hadn't been on to the same place just for the heck of it. (is it really going to connect to the place I am going? O my god, what if it doesn't, etc etc! Ha!!) It is so silly to me being almost SCARED of these new things however small when that is what I am seeking. My husband has no problem whatsoever with anything new, I have no idea why. I really want to make sure my son is brought up to love the new and not be scared of it. mandy, I am so glad I am not the only one who has her heart beating in her chest at something like that! I had that feeling the other day just for taking a different route I hadn’t been on to the same place just for the heck of it. (is it really going to connect to the place I am going? O my god, what if it doesn’t, etc etc! Ha!!) It is so silly to me being almost SCARED of these new things however small when that is what I am seeking. My husband has no problem whatsoever with anything new, I have no idea why. I really want to make sure my son is brought up to love the new and not be scared of it.

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