The trip to remember for our family started in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We were returning to our country of service in the far northeast, a hundred degrees colder than...
Travel, Sketching, and an Extraordinary Life
“The only real voyage of discovery . . . consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust, In Search of...
This Month’s Theme: Travel
Cue the stories. We all have them, right? The time we finagled our way through all the hoops at the ticket counter to somehow get on that plane. A...
Invited to Heal
We rarely look at a wound as a good thing that will help us. Yet St. Augustine of Hippo said, “In my deepest wound I saw your glory and...
And a Bruised Ankle Shall Teach Thee
It was 02/02/2020, and I had just run the best race of my life. Not because I had set any time records, not because I had won a ribbon,...
Look For the Marks of Healing
Real talk here: overseas work and trauma often go hand-in-hand. It’s not always big “T” trauma, like a major life event, but it can be. More...
He Binds Up Our Heart Wounds
I signed up for a workshop on healing the wounds of trauma thinking it would be a helpful tool to share with the widows that we work with, and...
Where Are You Feeling the Brokenness?
Do you feel it? Today, as plastic Easter eggs lay empty around my house, I’m feeling the post-Easter tension. The tomb is empty! The temple curtain is torn in...
This Month’s Theme: Healing
We all have areas that need the tender touch of our God who heals. This topic can feel…weighty. Exciting. Confusing. Raw. Maybe you...
Just In Case You Didn’t Get the Memo
I didn’t get the memo. You know, that memo that must’ve communicated, in an easy-to-follow format, just how to raise children—not only in a different culture...
