Author: Josiah
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Simple Things
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Life’s a funny thing, isn’t it? When we’re young, we spend our days wishing life would go faster. Nothing comes fast enough, our tenth birthday, being a teenager, getting to drive. But the older I’ve gotten, the more I realise I’m okay right where I’m at. If we all got what we wanted right when…
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It’s Just A House
Memories can weigh us down. In the movie Up, Carl and Ellie Frederickson fix up a house together and fill it with memories. They grow old together, and one day, Ellie passes away. Carl grows cold to everyone around him, until one day, a little boy named Russell shows up on his porch. With skyscrapers…
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One Hundred
Howdy! My name is Josiah! If you’re here, chances are you might’ve picked up on that already. It just so happens that you’ve stumbled across my one hundredth post!
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the other side
The grass ain’t always greener. Looking back at the past can often look different depending on the stage of life that you are in. A few years ago, I could only see the bad and the ugly of the last ten years. Circumstances and people in my life changed so much during that time, and…
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the story of a lighthouse
On this day five years ago, I started a new project. A blog, built in the hopes of encouraging other young people like me, a light in the darkness. I was fifteen at the time, and I posted on it semi-consistently until after I had turned seventeen. It was a new adventure, and I loved…
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molehills
You live and learn. Or at least I do. I’ve realised a couple of things this month. And I’m just keeping it all up here so you can see, I’m not backtracking. I’m learning. And sometimes that’s the hard way lol. I often set pretty lofty goals for myself, and then start out decently only…
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do hard things
I don’t know about you, but I have a strong tendency towards comfort. I like easy, and I think that’s something we can all relate to on some level. One of my mentors wrote a book on this topic, and it holds so true for our world today. The world expects so little of us nowadays, and we…
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howdy
Howdy y’all! Quietly entering my cowboy phase lol. Really I’ve just been watching Ryan Trahan’s videos on loop, and somewhere along the way I found myself back here. I’ve realised so much lately how badly I need creative outlets. For me, that’s writing and making videos. So this is step one in the master plan.…
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the search party/rescuer never fails
It’s a snowy Wednesday afternoon and the winter weather is leaving its mark outside my basement window. My two lamps are on because without them, it’s a little dark in my room. I don’t have a full plan for this story, or words eloquent enough to express my point as well I wish I could,…
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footprints in the snow
what you have matters. Sometimes we get stuck in believing that we have to have our lives in order to be used by God. That God can’t use our humble hearts to do anything significant. But we serve a God that can feed thousands from five loaves of bread and two fish. “There is a…
The Treehouse 