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Can I Get That Validated?

Sometimes, in moments of doubt, fear, frustration and when I've just flat out stuffed too much inside...I spill my guts. This happens because the me who wants to hide has battled with the me who wants to be known, and the me who wants to hide finally loses. I guess I'm at that place again. The me who wants to be known is the me who wants to be accepted for who she is. I have a sneaking suspicion, I'm not alone in this. We take our parking ticket to the lady behind the desk to get it stamped, validated so we don't have to pay for parking. In the same way we bring ourselves to those we know, who sit behind a proverbial desk with a stamp of approval. We show them the thing we want validated hoping for that same type of stamp of approval. We do this because we want to be right. We don't want the embarrassment of being wrong or the guilt that comes with it, especially if we've taken action based on our sense of being right and it was less

Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? - A Review

This review was originally posted on my blog and was a preview copy Thomas Nelson Publishers gave me through their Boo ksneeze progr a m.   I am p osting it over here and would be interested in your thoughts - Asa V. ---  "What would you do if Jesus appeared to you in a dream? What if He came to you in a vision and told you to follow Him? What if these visions continued for over thirty days?  Would you believe?  Would you put your trust in Him? Would you devote your life to Him?  Would you if you were Muslim?" - Dreams and Visions , back cover I grabbed this book because of some first-hand stories I've heard.  I know those who relayed them to me, and I trust these individuals, and I was very interested in what Pastor Tom Doyle had to say.  I was not disappointed. Doyle does a great job of laying out, story by story, a pattern of the use of dreams and visions of Jesus in the a hostile part of the world.  This is a part of the world where people are murdere