Wisdom from Del: “Life is not a destination”
From the journal of SIA Founder, Del Anderson, Fall 2005. Even at 99 years old he was still learning, growing, and exploring. I certainly...
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SIA Team
- Feb 16, 2016
- 2 min
A message of encouragement
In December, 200* girls from the Samburu tribe in Kenya celebrated an Alternative Rite of Passage, led by Pastoralist Child...
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SIA Team
- Feb 9, 2016
- 2 min
Am I too comfortable?
These are my own reflections and may not reflect the opinion of the SIA Board of Directors: Sometimes praying for peace can seem like the...
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SIA Team
- Jan 26, 2016
- 1 min
Inspire Your Heart With Art!
This Sunday, January 31st, is Inspire Your Heart With Art Day! It’s a day to appreciate the beauty and creativity around us all the time....
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SIA Team
- Dec 23, 2015
- 2 min
Christmas Inspiration from Del: Beloved Child of God
Merry Christmas to all SIA friends, partners, and supporters all around the world! May this be a time of rediscovering hope and joy, and...
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SIA Team
- Nov 10, 2015
- 3 min
Sharing Acts of Kindness
This Friday is World Kindness Day, a day of coordinated acts of kindness, of gifts from the heart that we can offer each other and that...
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SIA Team
- Aug 18, 2015
- 2 min
Can I get some encouragement?
“And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but...
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SIA Team
- Jul 14, 2015
- 2 min
Some good news from Africa
It’s easy to find the depressing, frustrating news about Africa. It’s more difficult to find exciting, inspiring stories about what’s...
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SIA Team
- Jun 30, 2015
- 2 min
Embracing Diversity
*In this moment of embracing diversity, I am reposting my words from March 2012, about the power of coming together in love.* Building...
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SIA Team
- Jun 9, 2015
- 2 min
Peace and “Soul Force”
In the swirling midst of on-going protest and the struggle for justice, I am reposting an essay I wrote for Memorial Day in 2010 about...
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SIA Team
- May 12, 2015
- 2 min
Wisdom from Del: Co-creators with the Divine
“God will not do for us what we can do for ourselves. We are not created as puppets to be manipulated and controlled. The Holy One does...
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SIA Team
- Feb 24, 2015
- 2 min
Dreaming of Spring
“What are those crazy things hanging in the tree?” I asked the SIA Small Business Fund Coordinators when we saw them on the site of our...
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SIA Team
- Jan 20, 2015
- 2 min
Called to action – now
Yesterday, Boyd and I took our lunch break to read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail aloud to each other. Reading it...
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SIA Team
- Jan 6, 2015
- 2 min
Wisdom from Del Anderson: God Calling…
Some inspiration to start the new year! The SIA Board reads this piece by Del Anderson at the beginning of each meeting. When I first...
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SIA Team
- Nov 25, 2014
- 1 min
Being Grateful for What We Do
Tanya shows off a basket and hat woven by one of the Small Business Fund groups. I’m grateful for the generosity of our grant partners!...
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SIA Team
- Sep 16, 2014
- 2 min
What I’m grateful for this week
Is anyone else having a week where there seems to be too much bad news in the world? Time to record some things I’m grateful for, to keep...
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SIA Team
- Aug 5, 2014
- 2 min
Travel Angels
*Update* The video is now working! Scroll down to see the Manyamula Band singing us a welcome song. (8/5/14) Just before leaving for...
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SIA Team
- Jun 25, 2014
- 1 min
There is no “us”, there is no “them”
There is no you, there is no me. There’s only God that I can see. There is no us, there is no them. There’s only God. Amen. — “There’s...
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SIA Team
- Jun 17, 2014
- 2 min
Wisdom from Del: Living Triumphantly
Let us then labour for an inward stillness, An inward stillness and an inward healing: That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are...
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SIA Team
- Jun 3, 2014
- 2 min
A Work in Progress
Breathe. Relax. Follow the path in front of you. I woke up in a panic this morning. I had dreamed that I had planned a second trip to...
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