Food is a language of its own. I moved six hundred miles away from my hometown to go to college. For every reasonably-long holiday, I’d...
This Week’s Theme: Recipe Box
It’s the time of year when social media posts of holiday treats create longing in our hearts. You might have a tiny oven. Or a...
Have You Seen? {November 17th, 2019}
Last Week’s Theme: Love Your Neighbor Open the Gates by Sarah Hilkemann—"I grew to love living behind a fence, barbed wire and broken glass at...
Neighboring in Your Culture + Hulk Muffins {The Grove: Love Your Neighbor}
It was Christmas time several years ago while we were in language school, hunkered down in a bitterly cold northern China city. I had just spent the afternoon baking...
When I Would Rather Hit You Than Love You
I really loved the people of my host country before we went. I mean, I prayed for them, I sacrificed for them, I fought for them and advocated for them,...
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Last week a neighbor popped over to give my children the toys she had earned through her grocery store purchases. That gesture, entirely mundane and unremarkable...
Sorrow and Suffering: Traveling Companions {Book Club}
Here in Kenya, there are people called Intercessors. We had intercessors back in the US, too. But these are different. In the US, they were people who were committed...
Open the Gates
I grew to love living behind a fence, barbed wire and broken glass at the top and bars on the windows keeping fear at bay. I craved safety and...
This Week’s Theme: Love Your Neighbor
Just about anywhere we live around the world we have other people living near us, whether it’s the apartment with a shared wall, the house on the other side...
Have You Seen? {November 10th, 2019}
Last Week’s Theme: The Veteran How Have You Stayed? by LeAnn E—"Along the way, the Lord has taught me that while passion for Him and passion...
