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“Maybe I would rather have a life with Alex and without God.” 🥺

This is just horrific. Being full of nails? You read this and know that tested like this, your own faith would undoubtedly fail

Seriously, Erik, I’ve been thinking this for chapters: how many near-death crashes are you going to continue courting before you stop getting lucky?

I’m getting the feeling Mike’s not cut out for this

Weird volleyball interlude

Another reviewer pointed this out, and it’s starting to irritate me too: Erik and friends always think God is on their side when he saves them, but not the toddler getting eaten by dogs or the man with the damaged van or the people living in a war zone. Weird trauma response?

Ok, driving through a country in an active civil war doesn’t sound like a reasonable decision

No more “jungles of Africa” please.

Aww. “It was about realizing what I was created to do and being courageous enough to embrace it… We’re going the right way.”

Yikes I wonder if they even let people do Pamplona anymore. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen! Oh, and I forgot about the South African ostrich butts 😆 I’m going to watch for them next time in the park

I had the same uneasy feeling visiting Cape Town for the first time (10 years later). Though if Erik calls these motorcycles “stallions” one more time 🙄

Moving through my stack of miscellaneous books, one discarded library volume at a time. Introduction was cringe: no one uses the words “mere” or “plight” anymore. I can’t say I confidently know what trepidant (spell check says not a word) means. But the impulse to help and the determination to keep going back, without overpromising, is respectable