But I Thought it was Chocolate
He just wanted a quick, informal tour of the local hospital. We never expected he was going to become the town’s top news story. My parents were visiting me...
Her life in Asia started in a small town whose only western products were Oreos and Coca-cola. Now, after 16 years living overseas, and in the city of 5 million where she currently lives, Renee continues to savor the journey to which God has called her. She is a mom of 4 creative, confident young men, as well as a wife to a pretty amazing husband. She has taught English in both American and Chinese classrooms, planned women’s retreats and studies, directed dramas, and mentored women from different cultures. Discussing theology around the table, playing sports, drinking coffee, and time with the people she loves are on Renee’s top ten list. Currently she is pursuing a master’s degree in Biblical studies.
He just wanted a quick, informal tour of the local hospital. We never expected he was going to become the town’s top news story. My parents were visiting me...
“So, basically you take off anything that is not part of your body.” Um. Let’s just say that I was not anywhere near ready for the words that came...
Sheep stink. Literally and figuratively. They really do. We always picture sheep so soft and sweet, but in reality they use the bathroom and...
“We don’t have cheese pizza.” I was standing in the very first pizza shop to open in our city in northeastern China. We had yearned for this...
We never should’ve eaten the spinach. It was a team dinner and we got take-out from a restaurant we all loved. One of the dishes we ordered...
The day I ate pigeon loaf I tried very hard to not taste it. It really was a gigantic slab of meatloaf, entirely made out of the...
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." I love this opening line from a C.S. Lewis book. It always makes me...
“High speed waiting.” This sign above the entrance to a waiting room in a bus station in China made me smile. It was attempting...
I was casually walking down the aisle of a bookstore in Asia when a picture leapt off the cover of a book. It was my own children!...
In 1997 in Shandong, China, Christmas was invisible. When I envisioned what my first Christmas with my newly married husband would be like, that image did not...
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