10 Questions to Ask During the Pandemic Pause
“Time is flying by. And time is standing still,” a friend observed to me the other day, trying to sum up how life has felt during the coronavirus pandemic....
Category: Change/Transition
Changing the Goal: Transformation within Transition
Teary eyes give way to the gleam of expectation as "beautiful feet" cross the threshold between the known and unknown. With the Gospel work firmly implanted in her deepest...
Arriving As a Family
You packed your bags. And your kids. Now you’ve arrived to start a whole new way of life. If you find yourself thinking, “Man! Doing this...
I’ll Be Your Big Sister For a Minute
You are about to start on a grand adventure, one that will mark you in ways you never could have imagined. I still remember the wide-eyed excitement when I...
5 Reflective Tips on Going + Granola Energy Bites
Dear Starry-Eyed Self, You’ve spent the better part of the last year preparing to go to the field. You’ve shared with countless people your dreams to...
Finding the Grace Givers
A few months into our time back in the States, I chatted with an older gentleman about our move. When I told him about our son, he asked with...
Displacement
Flight. Gunshots. Phone calls. Frantic packing. Hurried goodbyes. Faces taut with fear. Questions without answers. Everything, gone. Arrival. Strange beds....
When Wandering
“Where are we going today, Mom? What are we going to do?” One of my daughters begins almost every morning with this, before I’ve drained my first cup of...
Always Learning {The Grove: Learn}
Every year of living overseas keeps revealing more deeply that to live overseas is to be a lifelong learner. What you thought you knew about God, the world, people...
When You Hide in Your Baggage
I left my beloved boarding school in Germany and my parents’ home on the field in France when I turned eighteen. I was headed to college in a new...
