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, [...]
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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?
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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