So they say that you need to look back to look ahead. Okay, well, I’ve actually never heard anybody say that. I just made it up because it sounded like a good introduction for a post about favorite posts from the past year. Though, really, I guess if you did that, you would just end [...]
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Merry Christmas, Friends. Thanks for journeying with our family, for entering conversations here, and for supporting us in a million different ways this past year. We hope your holiday season is full of rich, take-your-breath-away-good-kind-of moments. We hope, too, that the gift of the King-who-came-down truly overshadows everything, everything, else. Happy Holidays, ya’ll. And we’ll [...]
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The recent discussion we had here about the brutal cycle of hope and disappointment had me nodding my head as the conversation developed about dreams and the eventual crash-and-burning of those very ideals. And this early morning light finds me watching the farmers begin the process of harvesting the rice. Over the big white wall that [...]
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Yeah, so neither Matt nor I have ink yet. But as I’ve worked with the generation right behind me (the 20-somethings), I’ve noticed a trend for tats which is much greater now than even in my own college days. It used to be that only the wonderfully-edgiest people sported some kind of celtic symbol on [...]
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I’m typically quick to notice her faults, to comment about the not-so-great, to judge a motive I couldn’t possibly know. I’ve been one to walk away from a church service, complaining about the lead singer’s voice or the charisma of the pastor. I observe a ministry and then pick apart the ways it could be [...]
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Anybody can have a good website. Anybody. And that includes missionaries and ministries and humanitarian efforts that want and need your money. And oftentimes, what you see IS what you get– honest efforts at helping others, effective means of sharing God’s love with a community whether it be in education or poverty reduction or leadership [...]
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Sweaty heads and dirty feet tumbled into the car after an evening last week at BHJ Girl’s Home in Thailand. And we waved goodbye out the window as the gate was closed behind us, and I asked my three kids in the backseat, “Well, did you have fun?” And, immediately, my son started in– “I didn’t [...]
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We were in our mid-twenties when we tasted utter failure in one of our first “ministry” jobs. It was a train-wreck on every level– landing our family of three into my parent’s basement with no money, no job, and a whole heckuvalot of hurt to muck through. Conflict sucks. Especially conflict in Christian ministry. And [...]
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“So the question is, when the credits roll in your life, are people going to think your story sucked?” – donmilleris.com There’s been a lot of talk about living a Good Story this past year. I’ve read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years {and loved it}, which has been a catalyst for [...]
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If you could write your body a letter this summer, what would it say? Something like the following? ********************* Dear Body, Get skinnier, and fast. I’ve gotta put on a bathing suit next week and that means you need to shape up and get it together, like literally on both counts. Lose the rolls and [...]
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Some Stats 12: years married, by Monday of next week. 13: times moved, by the same day. And the process of moving begins, again, for our family today. Finding the lost Connect Four chips under the couch. Dragging out the suitcases from storage and checking for spiders. Sorting clothes and art projects and broken legs [...]
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ALifeOverseas.com / LauraParkerBlog.com.
My family is living overseas in Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Humanitarian Foundation. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
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Destined Traveler.
Mentoring Young Adults, Hosting Teams, Educating about Human Trafficking.