When God Shifts Your Call
Have you ever lost sight of your call? Sometimes I look back at our years of support raising and think about our naivety. We were so sure...
Category: A New Outlook
Laboring with Littles
My cousin and I live over 14,000 miles apart and yet our lives are often similar- diapers, laundry more laundry, keeping the family fed, seeking to bring hope and healing...
Permission to Share and Care
I’m about to do something I try to never do as I speak on behalf of someone else —and in this case for thousands spread out all over the globe,...
The Work of the Lord—Is It All On Me?
On the field, especially when you aren't part of a team, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel like you’re the only one serving. Because, of course,...
Where I Ought to Have Been Born
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” We’re...
I Think It Is Okay to be an Alien
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t feel like an alien. When I was a little girl, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little Canadian girl growing up in a...
I’m Sorry You Had to See This Mess
At random we drew a word and performed it for the class. I held the word HAPPY against my broken heart while I waited for my turn to display what...
Put Praise to my Lips
Even in a dirty and dreary land, there is a sunrise. Even when the air chokes and stifles a clear breath, the birds herald the morning. As...
A Rubber Duck Lesson on Leaving {The Grove: Leaving}
I have forgotten many things from pre-field training, but there’s one image that is seared onto my brain. It’s a picture of two rubber ducks. Let me...
Surrendering Opportunity
I used to believe it was easier being the one who left. Maybe that was because when I first moved overseas in 2011, I did a lot of leaving. Every...
