David Desforge

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Hey y'all. I've really appreciated the encouragement and interest over the years. I regret that I haven't kept up very well and I've decided to deactivate this account so I can focus my time on other priorities. Many of... https://t.co/VrOgUKDOHk

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

"Putting God in the same category of Santa Claus just doesn't make sense. After all, right throughout history, some of the finest minds have given themselves to thinking about God. They have not done so with Santa... https://t.co/mfcQDNGt6Q

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough.
Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up.
Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?
Remind me once again just who I am,... https://t.co/qNc4oHaj6W

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"God's idea isn't just that we would just give and receive love but that we could actually BECOME love. People who are becoming love see the beauty in others even when their off-putting behavior makes for a pretty weird... https://t.co/vw8WmfmNdq

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

"If we Love God most, we will love others best." (Jon Bloom). A simple and wise goal for 2019, and a wonderful prayer for one another.

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

"Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return... Grace is being loved when you are unlovable. It is being loved when you are the opposite of loveable…Grace is a love that has nothing to do... https://t.co/T8ZgptXueb

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks. (Peterson on Ps. 36:6)

From its... https://t.co/XPDKIRa851

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

28 friends from Nepal, China, Brazil, Japan, Philippines, Spain and the U.S. on our annual trip to the Virginia Creeper Trail. Here's my bus group. They slept their way home. 🤔

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Welcoming new international students yesterday. And first pontoon boat experience for international friends earlier this month.

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair. (TIm Keller)

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Hiked the third highest peak but actually the tallest mountain in the smokies from base to the top (Mt. LeConte). Gorgeous. "In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also." (Psa. 95:4).

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Needed this reminder! Inspiration through a Smokey Mountain difficult hike this weekend. Flaming Azaleas at Gregory Bald. Jesus said, "See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you... https://t.co/2qvKaHp2pm

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Our dear friends Billy and Lin prepared us an out of this world traditional Chinese hot pot meal. We will miss you guys dearly when you return home soon.

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

It’s a weekend for remembering that every blessing we enjoy was bought with the price of freedom. I’m grateful for an inspiring hike and this grilled dinner just now. (Hint: get a filet on sale and pair it with grilled... https://t.co/eR7pAR86XL

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Spring through the eyes of Iranian Poet Hafiz...

What happens when your soul

Begins to awaken

Your eyes

And your heart

And the cells of your body

To the great Journey of Love?
First there is wonderful laughter... https://t.co/n2Zw3D0smm

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Enjoyed the Dragon Lights Festival with international friends this weekend.

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Inspiring campout and hikes with International scholar-friends in and near Big South Fork. We began our getaway with King David’s poetic mediation on the voice of nature speaking to us about the glory of God (Psa. 19:1-6).

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

Congrats to our Ashley on the printing of her doctoral thesis! She will defend it next month at the University of Oviedo, Spain where she studies and works.

[David Desforge @DavidDesforge]

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.” ― Charles H. Spurgeon