I wrote the following post about struggling a year and a half ago, and I returned to it this week. Because, honestly, it’s been one of those– when the computer virus infected all of our websites, when the details of launching a new site caused late nights, when it became official that some of our [...]
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In honor of all the hearts floating around these days, I am re-posting a piece I wrote about eight months ago. We were just returning to Asia after a glorious six weeks in the U.S. with family and friends, good bread and better coffee, and I was wrestling with what love looks like, in a [...]
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My amazing writer-artist-friend Kelley Leigh has begun writing again. Her words are simple and powerful over at her new blog, Forming Sentences, and just recently she posted an inspirational video from a girl she knew several years back. The girl’s name is Katie, and the story of her life screams redemption in the midst of [...]
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It’s Thursday morning, and I wake up with my mind racing. The balls are spinning in the air, and it seems the faster I juggle, the more likely I am to drop one, or two, or seven for that matter. I have about twelve too many projects going on at once, no consistent childcare help, [...]
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I heard the other day about a Thai woman who loves Jesus but chooses not to call herself a Christian. Instead, she classifies herself a “Buddhist Christ-Follower.” She recognizes that the term Christian in this part of the world is thick with cultural and historical meanings from the West that she would rather not identify [...]
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As the holidays approach, thoughts of my family back home are never far from my mind. Special occasions rub the reality of living far away from home a bit raw this time of year. In light of that, I thought it appropriate to re-post this article I wrote last December. I reckon in many ways, [...]
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We walk up to the bar, and we slap a hand down. “Give me your best,” we tell the bartender. And we wait, expectant and hopeful. And the bartender mixes– the perfect concoction, no two drinks the same. This amount of bitter, this measure of sweet. A shot of strong, several shots of weak. A [...]
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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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When I read Cody’s comment from last week’s post about the brutal cycle of hope and disappointment, I immediately emailed him and asked if I could share it as a post. This missionary family to Haiti has suffered blow after blow over the past few years, including the loss of their young daughter to cancer [...]
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I feel like we’re in an epic boxing match with God right now. And he’s the one most definitely winning. It’s as if we’re stuck living a bad version of Groundhog Day, the cycle of hope and disappointment playing out in a thousand different scenarios. It goes a bit like this: 1. We think God [...]
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Today was a “Go Home Day.” Matt and I have grown to classify some days this way because there are days, sometimes entire weeks, when we’d much rather just go home– back to our community, our culture, our families, our life. And maybe it’s because we haven’t hit even the two-year mark of living overseas, [...]
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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.