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Not Sellin’ Jesus
The following is a new page that will remain as a link at the top of the site. Just didn’t want ya to miss it . . . To my friends of varying faith journeys as well as to my church-going-friends, both kind enough to visit me (and Matt) here, I understand I often write a [...]
Continue reading...Stranger
Friday, July 2, 2010
Living in a foreign country serves you with constant reminders that you do not belong. Just this week, we spent four hours in the waiting room of the Thai immigration office. Four hours. Waiting. Vulnerable. Nervously offering paperwork to officials in hopes that our passports would be stamped worthy of remaining in their country for a year. [...]
Continue reading...Today in the Desert
Thursday, June 17, 2010
“Today {not in the future, a better mood, or an easier season}, if you hear His voice {stirrings, Divine ‘coincidinces,’ Truth}, do not harden your hearts {distract yourself, ignore My pursuit, turn away}, as you did in the rebellion {remember, the Israelites in the desert?}. Who were they who heard {had the chance to know and [...]
Continue reading...“But, I’m Not the Star”
Friday, June 11, 2010
So, we were playing pretend this week. Yes, really playing pretend with wagging baby-dogs and force-strong jedi-knights and visits from the princess who is also a horse-trainer. And the four of us were crowded around the coffee table, and my son was explaining what should happen next in the story–his version which included light sabers and lots [...]
Continue reading...Block by Block
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
“Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen. Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the desert and paths in the wilderness.” {Isaiah 43:19} . . . and p.s., yes, that is, indeed, me saying “woo, doggie” on the above clip. SHARE Recommend on [...]
Continue reading...Red Light Wallowing
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
There’s a red light blinking in our house that makes me want to scream. It’s nearly always been blinking, and despite daily phone calls and accumulated hours on hold and confusing conversations with technicians, red it stays. It’s the light on the modem which indicates if we have access to the Internet at our house, [...]
Continue reading...“Draw a Nine-Legged Dog . . .”
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Yup, that’s really a direct quote from an article by Donald Miller. You should totally check it out. Does God Have a Specific Plan for Your Life? Probably Not. Opinions, Anyone? SHARE Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
Continue reading...Costly
Thursday, April 8, 2010
I won’t lie, this has been the hardest thing our family has ever done. Hands down. The hardest thing we’ve ever done. And maybe that proves that we’ve lived a bit of a cake-walk life thus far, but this past week has been much tougher than we imagined while viewing it from the mountains of [...]
Continue reading...Two Loaves and a Half a Fish
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Hi Friends. I am sitting right now in a hotel room in Denver while Matt and the kids enjoy the pool. It’s 10 in the morning and in about six hours we begin the travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand. We leave here around 3 in the afternoon and will arrive in Thailand (hopefully) about 32 [...]
Continue reading...What I NEED to Know
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I am leaving the United States in six days, six days. And I am feeling overwhelmed by all that I don’t know. I don’t know the details of the Buddhist religion, which claims 95% of the nation’s population. I don’t know the nuances of the Thai culture, and I haven’t spent much time with the language Cd’s [...]
Continue reading...Dropping Nets
Friday, March 19, 2010
As I look back over the pages of this blog, I realize that I have yet to write about my personal journey Christ-following in regards to our decision to move to Thailand to help combat child prostitution. Now that we are facing the messy piles of miscellaneous stuff and starting to say our hard goodbyes, [...]
Continue reading...Dropping the Nets
Thursday, March 18, 2010
As I look back over the pages of this blog, I realize that I have yet to write about my personal journey Christ-following in regards to our decision to move to Thailand to help combat child prostitution. Now that we are facing the messy piles of miscellaneous stuff and starting to say our hard goodbyes, [...]
Continue reading...LOVE
Sunday, February 14, 2010
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I am reposting this lesson learned in February last year. Here’s to hoping I am learning to love a little better now than I was then . . . The Lesson for My Kids. As often happens in “teaching” my kids, I seem to learn more than I impart. This week [...]
Continue reading...To See a Miracle
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I am reading with some friends The Life of Jesus published by Tyndale. It is the chronological, integrated story of Jesus, written in novel format. Today’s reading included two different men that asked Jesus for a miracle. The first man was a Pharisee, a member of religious leaders whom Jesus often confronted with pride and [...]
Continue reading...Lessons from Hospice: Hearing
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Holding the hand of a woman who is literally dying is sobering. I just got back from North Carolina where I spent hours with my family sitting beside my grandmother’s bedside in a hospice facility. And as we spoke about this 84-year-old’s body being in a coma, one of the nurses revealed an interesting fact. She said that [...]
Continue reading...Upside Down: Greatness in a Child
Monday, November 23, 2009
The following is my humble and quick interpretation of an interaction Jesus had with His twelve closest friends, His disciples, as recorded in the Bible (Mark 9:33-37, Matthew 18:1-5, Luke 9:46-48) “Who’s the greatest?” they argue. And the answers begin to fly around with convicted argument. The most popular. The one with the biggest boats and the most [...]
Continue reading...WELCOME
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