Category: Reflections
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Mercy
This reflection on my experience in a summer camp in Egypt is centred on mercy. It helped me to realise the cost that mercy has in a deeper way. That which we often take for granted carries a hidden cost.
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Friendship
‘No, you’re crazy,’ I said. At the summer camp we had organised in Egypt, the children used this sentence to joke with each other. They would call me crazy, I would give the best retort possible; ‘No, you are.’ And they would laugh and keep it going until they switched…
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Healing
This reflection is on healing and our self perception. Based on the self-depreciating words I heard from a young girl at a live-in, it tackles the importance of taking charge of who we are, and who we become.
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Personal Commandments
Personal Commandments Don’t sleep on the roof. Our leaders had repeated those words a number of times. They had also repeated many other rules that we took more as suggestions. The problem with following that specific rule was reality. Namely, the reality of the unbearable heat, paired with a shortage…
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Love
Today’s reflection is inspired by a pilot’s decision which prevented us from being stranded in Rome after a very exhausting journey. His choice, one which filled us with relief, was also a great example of the true sense of love.
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Choice
Choice When we threw the ball, they went insane. The children of Mancheyat Nasr had never seen a school like this. The grounds were enormous, clean and well equipped…and they got to play in them. They were right to be thrilled. One of the most prestigious educational institutions in Egypt…
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