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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So you are slammed with making cookies for the kid’s class party and ordering that present for your mom and wrapping up that project at work, and, geez, it’s already mid-December. And your last-minute to-do list grows longer than your 3 year-old’s wish list for Santa. I get it. This is a pyscho time of [...]
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I posted this vlog about struggling with guilt at Christmas last year for another site, but thought it worth a second look. Ya know, because it’s the holidays and all. . . **************** What is the biggest thing you struggle with during the holiday season, in general? During THIS holiday season, in particular? Go ahead, [...]
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I used to kindly roll my eyes at those espousing the importance of fair trade. I never really understood it, and, honestly, living on a youth pastor’s salary with three kids is no joke when it comes to stretching the ol’ family budget. I know what it’s like to try purchasing decent Christmas presents for your 17 [...]
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We admit it– we’re Survivor fans. We’ve watched Boston Rob rise and fall and then rise again, we’ve rooted for firefighter Tom from New York, and we’ve rolled our eyes at evil-maniac Russell who burned people’s socks. And even though they’ve been recycling challenges for the past 10 seasons of the current 23 {really, how [...]
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Suppose I wrote a novel about my awkward years in middle school during the neon-colored-nineties. Suppose I wrote about teased bangs and stirrup pants and those long shirts that you knotted at your thigh with some kind of plastic accessory that matched your alternating-colored- and -layered-socks. And suppose I dropped a few middle school terms [...]
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And, now, for some happy . . . I looked at my school schedule last week and noticed we were already on week 12. Combine that fact with the reality that we were all beginning to hate phonics workbooks and math facts, and our homeschooling took a “fall break” of sorts this week. We read [...]
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I wanted to share this quick illustration of the three different components of the fight against human trafficking. This word-picture could be applied to many social justice issues, and I heard it first from our friends over at ZOE Children’s Homes. Call me crazy, but I just do better with simple analogies I can understand. . [...]
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This week is going to be self-proclaimed “Human Trafficking Awareness Week” at aLifeOverseas.com . I have several posts coming your way about the issue of trafficking and modern day slavery, along with ways that you can {really} help. Be sure to stop back by and check it out. So perhaps you care deeply about social [...]
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My authentic-to-the-core husband hates praying aloud in groups so much that he typically won’t do it. Oh, he’ll sit there quietly and have epic conversations with God in his head, but you’ll seldom find him piping up and popcorn-praying-it. He thinks his talks with God are personal, and he’d just prefer to keep them that [...]
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My husband is an inspirational leader– an Inspirational Leader. And when he worked as a student pastor, he challenged kids with Jesus-living time and again. And this week as we were looking through some old kid-videos, we found these clips from a message he gave once at the local high school during a global awareness [...]
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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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