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 [...]
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Forgive my quiet this week. In my continued clawing for balance, blogging has fallen lower on the list than my day has allowed. We are working on a new site for Breanna’s House, my computer has been running slower than Christmas, and we’ve had a little-boy birthday to celebrate. I promise I will jump back [...]
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It happens to every new mother, every young married, and every “missionary.” The luster fades, the honeymoon is over, and the grit of daily life sets in. The glowing romance fades into dull reality. The baby cries too much at night. The new husband has bad breath in the morning. Shopping at markets becomes a hassle and [...]
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As I begin to trudge through the hard goodbyes, the loss of this place I’ve called home for nearly five years, the closing of this chapter of our lives, I sometimes feel like I’d rather just bury my head in the sand . . . or snow. (I promise, they were doing this on their own yesterday [...]
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“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is [...]
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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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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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I have been inspired this week by the words and life of Corrie Ten Boom and her family. Enjoy this brief history of a woman who earned the right, through suffering and sacrifical love, to speak things to which we should listen. “Corrie Ten Boom and her family were Christians who were active in social [...]
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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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“We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” -Charles Swindoll So, the question for you and me today is:What kind of music [...]
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I had a precious friend in college (Mary Clai–Anybody know how she is?) who once described life like this: “It’s like you are carrying a huge load of laundry in your arms. And stretch and strain as you might, you just can’t get your hands around everything. And you shift this way and drop a [...]
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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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