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When You Become an Awful Person
“What happens when trying to follow Jesus turns you into an awful person?” This was the honest question Matt and I talked about last night on our downstairs couch, in the 15 minute-window we had where the kids were asleep and we had the energy to talk about the important. It was a question born [...]
Continue reading...Question {for God}
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Today’s question is a good one. Perhaps my all-time favorite. Just imagine you are sitting in the corner of a quiet cafe with God himself. And you have the chance to ask him Anything. At. All. And He promises to answer. What would you want to know? Would it be about why that happened to [...]
Continue reading...Dream in Blue Ink
Saturday, August 28, 2010
I gave the journal to my son to fill with long-legged stick-figures in blue crayon (his favorite). We had carried around the empty book for years, and as we were packing during our recent move to Thailand, somehow the blank journal got moved from the dusty box in the storage room to the crammed-to-the-max suitcases [...]
Continue reading...Two Men and a Swimming Pool
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
I’ve watched two men struggle to keep afloat. My little man, Cade, is barely a whole handful of years. Last week, we logged countless pool hours during our vacation to Pattaya in Southern Thailand. And Cade was determined to swim. In the deep end. He desperately wanted the freedom to be a contender in the [...]
Continue reading...She Threw a Rock
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
I watched her tonight out at the orphanage. A five-year-old body and a twenty-something-soul, though the age on her legal papers claims ten. She ran out, clutching a blue worn bear. It was the quality of stuffed animals handed over at a fair after winning a 50- cent game of darts. But, she doesn’t care, because it is hers. And an older girl takes it away. [...]
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...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...Got Thirty Minutes?
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
If you are interested, below is the link to the sermon Matt gave this past Sunday. He was able to share the full story of how we decided to move to Thailand and was able to challenge us all to love and follow Jesus sacrificially. My favorite thing he said was, “Jesus did not die on a [...]
Continue reading...One Life, Do Something
Sunday, January 10, 2010
I wanted to post the video that Matt showed today in church before the sermon. He was able to share about our journey to Thailand and about what it means to really serve those around us like Jesus asks. On the tail end of a hard and busy week, the fact that he was able to [...]
Continue reading...On Being Enough
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
When I think of the needs that will be before me as our family moves to Thailand . . . the college girls who will be away from home and needing a motherly mentor the young girls who will need lots of hugs and smiles and English lessons my own children’s hearts and minds as [...]
Continue reading...WELCOME
My family is currently living overseas in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Orphanage for girls. This blog is the honest recording of our journey. Spiritual. Authentic. Funny. Global. Welcome to a Life Overseas.
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