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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

April 19th: Today I Am

A Small Blue Thing (original post from November 2013).

Here's today's line for the Progressive Poem. 


Posted by Ruth at 3:22 AM

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I've been privileged to live in three of the world's great cities (Nairobi, Port-au-Prince and Asunción, Paraguay) as well as spending time in many others (including nine weeks in Paris as a college student). I just moved to a new city: Kampala, Uganda. I've also lived in smaller towns in three countries. In all of those places there have been difficult days, but I've never found a city or town yet where God is not, and I don't anticipate finding one in the future, either. The name of my blog comes from the song "Love is Always There," by Carolyn Arends.
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