Abby Sams

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13 (NIV)   ----------------------------------------------------------------    The lack of posts I've made here is astounding. I really thought I would be better at this whole regular blog posting thing. Clearly I was wrong. However, my reasons are totally valid. I've been really sick lately and it wound me up in the ER once already. I'm not going into detail until I have all the answers, but I am running out of patience very quickly. Doctor after doctor has told me that they can't find the source of the problem and thrown me to someone else. It's been three months of this and I'm done. But with all these holidays and family around it's kind of hard to be too upset about it. My grandparents celebrated 25 years together, my uncle was home for Christmas for the first time in 8 years and I

"Speak up even if your voice shakes." "Stand up for what you believe in even if you're standing alone." ----------------------           I don't know where my mind has been this past week. Between the terrorist attacks, earthquakes, college applications and doctors appointments my mind is fried. When you fill out application you have to put in your high school info, and for those of you who don't know: I've been to two high schools.         My first high school was a public high school. They taught evolution and I do not believe in evolution. There is no hard actual evidence for human evolution. I let the teacher know, third day of freshman year I started a debate with my biology teacher. I was thoroughly convinced she would hate me for the rest of the year. We didn't actually go into evolution until a bit later, but again I shared my evidence with her in front of the class. She asked me to stay after class, I thought i was going to g

Why are wastelands so beautiful to us? Why do we find dystopian settings so compelling and post apocalyptic life to be an interesting fantasy? ----------------------------          We are drawn to these things because the idea of something new coming out of the dust. Like Adam brought to life from the dirt. The same reasoning behind the fact that flowers growing through the asphalt looks so appealing. It's nature going against the odds, simply because it needs to grow somewhere. The wild flowers do not care about how inhabitable its setting should be, if it can grow, it will.                Humans have their own wastelands, their own asphalt, inside of them. We use them as reasons for people not to love us. However, to someone in the world your wasteland is beautiful. Remember that you have survived 100% of your worst days and kept going against whatever odds you had. Everything you go through in life is either going to be a flower or asphalt in the waste

Hey y'all,        I'm going to go ahead and apologize for the lack of posts even though I keep saying I'm going to post and never do. I'm still getting in the swing of things as far as having an actual blog.        ---------------------------------         Last night I couldn't sleep so I did what I always do and stared at the ceiling for a half hour before jumping on my phone (not proud of that) and surfing the internet. I found a website called "Great Big Story" through a YouTube human I watch and looked into what they do. Instantly I wanted to share the story of Karanse and everything over there so I shot them an email and fingers crossed they decide to help me produce a film over the summer in Karanse. If not, I'm going to do it anyway. So to all of you strangers out there: let me tell you about a school called PUNCHMI and how it changed an entire village....      PUNCHMI was started by Pastor Warieli in 2003, he saw a need in Kar

Hey hey,     We, as a human race, tend to plan things very meticulously. When is it, where is it, who's going to be there, how long, what food, and on and on. Rarely we just accept things as the present themselves. Honestly, that's my favorite thing to do. It's not always a fun experience, sometimes it fails horribly and all you can do is learn from it. But this weekend was the biggest success in a very long time. My best friend turned 18. All we had planned was that we'd all meet up at her house (all four of us, it's a small friend group). After that we just did whatever sounded good. We talked for hours and forgot about dinner so it wasn't untill about 8:30 Tha we finally left to get food. We told her she could go anywhere she wanted. She could've picked J. Alexander for all we cared but she chose Stake N Shake. We were the only ones there minus one other small family. We finished close to 9:30. Over dinner we reminisced on old memories of the years past

Hey y'all!    I'm Abby, a southern girl born and raised in Georgia suburbs. I spent a good portion of my childhood running around my neighborhood barefoot and dirty. I loved the outdoors and did everything from stick sword fights to climbing trees to living in a literal bush for a few days. I started having a severe case of wanderlust at the beginning of high school and did everything in my power to cure it. I left my old high school and my parents let my sister and I home school ourselves. Since then I've had a lot more free time and take a lot of time to find new places to study.   On May 28th, 2015 I hopped on my first plane and left for Karanse, Tanzania, Africa. Karanse is a remote village in TZ with a school that my church started. I fell in love immediately and will continue to go every summer and opportunity I get. I tend to start adventures and get lost because I hate GPS, which leads to whole new adventures. So here's to getting lost, and finding yo