The Story of a Passport, an iPhone and an Unreachable Agency

Most of you will know that in a week we will be heading off with Charis Bible College to Sikkim, India. Many of you will also know that we have been having issues getting Carol approved for a Visa to allow her enter the country. Today we finally got confirmation that she has been approved and we await her passport being returned to us in tomorrow’s post.

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Do or do not. There is no try.

Thus sayeth a wise old dude with pointy ears. He must have been reading Mark 11:23 that morning, because in it Jesus said something similar:

“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”

The problem most people have with this verse is that it goes against their understanding. Yoda tells Luke he “must unlearn what [he has] learned”. Although experience has taught him that he can’t do certain things, Yoda teaches him that he is limited only by his doubt.

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