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 want to be the rich guy with the crappy car. And I know you don’t find them very often, but I want to be the person with a million dollars in the bank who gives truckloads away and who still drives the 1986 pugeot, bought used when the kids were little 20 years ago. [...]
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It’s not that hard to play the hero– to hand over the donations for a surgery that will change a little girl’s life, to hug children without a mother, one night a week, to visit a bar and hear the prostitute’s story, when time allows. It’s really not that hard to love well in Jesus’ [...]
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Enjoy this post from the archives {originally written January 2011}. It’s one of my personal favorites. I think I just like the pictures. Community is a tangle of lives. It’s a continuous intersection of time and opinions– a chaotic convergence of Stories and personalities. Community means inconvenient birthday parties and trashed playrooms and awkward moments [...]
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Ever believed the lie that you have to be somewhere different to be changed or to change things? Every bought into the false idea that a person needs to do the dramatic in order to become dramatically different? Yeah, me, too. How ’bout you. Thoughts?
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We had heard that ex-Navy SEALS go in under cloak of darkness. We had heard they relocate entire villages minutes before the Burmese Army descends to destroy homes, families, and lives. We envisioned them in full army gear with green paint on their faces and ninja-moves like Jackie Chan. For about five years, actually, we’d [...]
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Enjoy this re-posting from the archives about how the rolling of my eyes in church one day led to tears in those same very eyes during the singing of a certain song. And I’m not one to cry-much. Originally written October 2010. So I’ve been honest about my church snobbery in the past {and all [...]
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Word on the street was that a package was on its way across the oceans. Grandparents had read our list of things missed and had tissue-papered love via Priority Mail. And, so, they waited. Every spare second of that day and the next, at the very edge of the driveway, peering expectantly down the road [...]
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After a season of slash-and-burn, of smoke-filling-air, of black-ash covering fields, they’ve started to plant the rice again. And I am reminded, by the process of the Thai farmer, that things often have to be burned and consumed, broken and charred, first. And then, sometimes only then, New Life is able to sprout, and give [...]
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From highschool student to young single, from tired parent to even-more tired empty-nester, our days can often be defined as a fight for the things that matter. This article is about that struggle, and following the post, I’ve added some questions my husband asked me after I told him what I wrote about this afternoon [...]
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Do you remember when I wrote about a promise given under aspen trees last year? It was a promise for Joy to Come, even on foreign soil, 8,500 miles from the Colorado sky I so loved. And if you’ve followed here for any amount of time, you’ll know it’s been a long ten months. If [...]
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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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Destined Traveler.
Mentoring Young Adults, Hosting Teams, Educating about Human Trafficking.
