The following is a post I’ve been thinking about for two weeks, but have been living out for a few months now. As we begin a New Year, I’ve read a lot from other blogs about choosing one word as a resolution of sorts for 2011. Alece is talking about it, and so is Nicole. [...]
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Tread gently on this post, friends. It’s a vulnerable prayer I somehow thought would be good to share. It’s what I would have written in my journal today, minus the messy handwriting. After months of emotional and spiritual survival, after wading through culture shock and biting off too much, too soon, I am finally finding [...]
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As I begin to enter the conversation about how to help the Orphan Crisis, I am reminded of a post I wrote last year. It went something like this: “A Church in Texas ran a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News. Big black letters, boldly declaring an apology. No excuses, no requests for money. [...]
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Some things are just better said. Like even though you’re supposed to be “Miss Suzy-Homemaker-Homeschooling Mom,” you hate to cook and your kids eat cereal for dinner three times a week {not really an exaggeration}. Or like the confession that you stood yesterday by the refrigerator door and ate a whole chocolate bar you were [...]
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Every puzzle piece counts. Every. Single. One. And maybe you don’t have a heart for adopting an orphan, Or perhaps you don’t possess a burning passion to buy fair-trade. {funny article from a chic in Costa Rica} Maybe you are not called to live in the jungles with backyard snakes the size of 18-wheelers, {wild [...]
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Living in a Buddhist country, I am surrounded by offerings . . . And I am wondering this Christmas, what their worship should be teaching me about mine. Because perhaps this season we find ourselves in– post-Thanksgiving and pre-New-Year– is mostly about that which is laid on the altar. Head on over to Christmas Change [...]
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Enjoy this revision of an earlier piece about hearing and following God, posted last year when discussions of our move to Thailand first began. We were sitting by a crackling fire on our back porch. There was a clear Colorado-sky overhead. It was November, I think, and we were talking of what it means to [...]
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It was one of the worst performances I’d ever sat through during a church service–technically speaking, that is. The group of young men was slightly off-pitch, and they slurred lyrics as they sang a song that tasted brief popularity in my high school youth group. These 13 Asians adopted faces of stone as they stood [...]
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I hear the laughter of my kids playing dunk in the pool, and the voice of my husband who misses me on the phone. I hear the encouragement of a friend who buys me an iced coffee while we roast in the sun, and the prayers of another, who brings pizza for dinner. I hear [...]
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Whether you are feeling overwhelmed as a mother to young children or tired from the constant motion or weary from the same battle, I hope this post will be an encouragement. I took a bit of a risk in reading the post aloud, after I wrote it. Sometimes flesh-and-blood trumps black-and-white, and hopefully you won’t [...]
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This post about grieving the loss of a father, is dedicated to my mother, who clung-anyway, my secondfather, who truly stepped-in, and my three siblings, who are cut-from-the-same-cloth. My daughter is seven-years-old. She’s dramatic and beautiful and sensitive. She thinks about kittens and is saving money to buy a horse. She loves to dance. She’s [...]
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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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