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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So I remembered a story this week– a story that took place about a billion minutes prior to this one. It happened in a dirt-floored home where wine was poured from pottery, where feet were washed and figs were dessert. It was a home that rivaled the southern-hospitality I know, though the guests probably sat [...]
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I’m typically quick to notice her faults, to comment about the not-so-great, to judge a motive I couldn’t possibly know. I’ve been one to walk away from a church service, complaining about the lead singer’s voice or the charisma of the pastor. I observe a ministry and then pick apart the ways it could be [...]
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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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*Last chance to enter the giveaway for Thai rings, my thanks to you for being involved in this web-space. Just click ‘like’ on the facebook page. More details are here. There are a few voices in the blog world that truly cause me to pause. And soak in beauty, appreciate art a little more, and [...]
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My husband’s not a schmoozer. He’s not one to say something for the purpose of inflating an ego, and he’s not one to walk-in-a-straight-line-and-follow-the-rules, either. He’s more of the envelope-pusher, hard question-asker, brutally-honest type-of-guy. He’s the person you want for a friend {if you want someone with the guts to call you on your crap}, [...]
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Every ninety days, we have to prove it, and every 365 we have to pay for it. We have to photocopy stacks of paperwork and hand over stacks of cash. We have to assemble reports and meet with accountants and hope-like-mad for that stamp in five passports that says we can stay legally in the [...]
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I fear I’ve gotten it all wrong. I sit here, and I look back at the last 24 hours, the last week, maybe even the last 33 years, and I wonder if somewhere embedded in the depths of me is a clawing desire for success. To mother kids that “turn out.” To get {and keep} [...]
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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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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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Tuesday afternoon, I watched him lug the suitcase behind him down the stairs. The zippers were stretched from items crammed within and a blue light saber was tucked into the outside pocket. A knot formed in the pit of my stomach, and I knew the answer before I asked it. “Where ya going, buddy?” And [...]
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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.
