by Kirk Kasicki | Apr 10, 2012 | Vision
You may have seen me doing some pretty strange things around St. Charles County over the past 100 days or so. You might have seen me stalking for sale signs. You may see me with a measuring tape marking off lengths. If you were driving behind me you might find it odd...
by Kirk Kasicki | Apr 3, 2012 | Thankfulness
The self help aisles at your local book store are loaded with ways to really find true happiness. Online sites spout the Top Ten Ways to Cultivate Joy. TV talk shows document the path to joy. And yet… At The Sparrow’s Nest we strive to cultivate an...
by Kirk Kasicki | Mar 30, 2012 | Sharing
March has been such a blessed month. After months of no donations we have been the recipient of literally thousands of dollars from your generosity. We’ve made connections is the community that we’ve spent 12 months trying to make. Our fundraising season is about to...
by Kirk Kasicki | Mar 28, 2012 | Guest Blog
Diann is the mother of one of our great volunteers Marla Stover. I got to meet her personally at another volunteer’s fundraiser. She took me aside and told me why she gives to The Sparrow’s Nest. Of course it made me cry, so I asked Diann to write her...
by Kirk Kasicki | Feb 20, 2012 | Sharing
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that when God’s people pray He really does hear us. Satan can convince us that our prayers fall on the deaf ears of a God who completes wishes on a whim. It becomes too simple to let our gaze drift and forget God’s...
by Kirk Kasicki | Feb 12, 2012 | Thankfulness
Thurgood Marshall None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us. This week is just another typical week of people helping us find our way along this incredible journey....
by Kirk Kasicki | Feb 12, 2012 | Thankfulness
Phillipians 1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you. How do you begin to thank people for believing in a dream? How do you show gratefulness for people supporting and encouraging vision? There’s nothing tangible there. There’s no t-shirt or...
by Kirk Kasicki | Feb 12, 2012 | Guest Blog
When someone asks you to be a part of something and this thing will require effort, thought, time, maybe even work, what is it that drives us to say yes? Sometimes it’s the person asking. We feel an obligation to that person, or even become scared of the response from...
by Kirk Kasicki | Feb 12, 2012 | Vision
Do you remember when your toddler was learning to build with blocks? They would take those 2 or 3 blocks with those little mitten hands and try over and over again to stack them up successfully. During the process they would undoubtedly get frustrated when the blocks...
