Posts Tagged ‘Matt and Misty Lindsey’
Juárez: On the ground perspective – Yobel 4
They’ll rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage. They’ll start over on the ruined cities, take the rubble left behind and make it new. -Isaiah 61:4
January 9th, 2011 by Misty Lindsey
Juárez: Just One Word
Juárez. Just one word – disdained by the world, restricted by the fear that shackles her. A terror. Abandoned, scorned, forgotten. Juárez. Just one word – my heart leaps. Excitement fills the air. Anticipation. My city, my home. LOVE. Beauty. Life. Friends. Hope and anticipation of what is to come. I recently had a conversation [...]
November 1st, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
Weilding hope for Juárez
Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
August 5th, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
June 9th, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
The Battle Rages
Photo by Chris Knott There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. 1 John 4:18 Living in Juarez has forced my eyes open, heightened my senses and toughened up my soft coddled [...]
March 22nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
This is Juarez: Raising the Stakes
Photo by Dallas Palmer Living on the border can cripple a person’s emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day. Charles Bowden, High Country News The choice that we made to move to the desert cost Misty and me dearly. This has been a grueling battle on almost every level, but the longevity [...]
January 2nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Mornings in Juarez
The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money. Tracy Kidder – Mountains beyond Mountains Its 5:23 and the alarm on my cell phone is set to sound its melodious tune in 7 minutes, but I have been laying [...]
September 3rd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Seven
I can’t stand your religious meetings.
I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects,
your pretentious slogans and goals.
August 31st, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Hope for the Poor: Vital Vitamins
Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless [...]
July 23rd, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Everything happens…
We lack a holy rage - The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets… a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world… To rage when little children must die of hunger when the tables of the rich are sagging with food… To rage against complacency. To restlessly seek that recklessness [...]
January 25th, 2011 by mmlindsey