Is This My Home?
“Are you my mother?” a newly hatched bird chirps to anyone and everything she meets in the children’s book, Are You My Mother? And while the readers know the...
Category: Life Overseas
Where Is Home For You?
I’m sure you’ve been asked the question and you’ve wrestled with how to answer. Several years ago, I was shopping in Northern Wales and I found...
An Unexpected Invitation
I had met her the weekend before (Palm Sunday weekend) on a bus trip to visit a monastery in the eastern half of the country. As we parted, getting...
I Surrender All…Well, Almost
I never wanted this overseas life. My only exposure to cross-cultural work came every 3rd Wednesday night at a small group meeting at church. I remember...
Icing and Mochas
I was watching them play from the window, wiping (licking) my fingers from the frosting I had just finished putting on my 8-year-old’s birthday cake. It was the first...
Merry Christmas, Velvet Ashes Community!
John 1:14, 16 (NLT) So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory,...
An Untold Miracle of Christmas
I have a small nativity set that my husband bought for me our first Christmas together. This little set was in our first apartment as newlyweds....
The Song of the Unseen
A couple of weeks ago I stepped into a church restroom, my eyes red from crying. Freshly returned from the Middle East, I had just finished...
Good News of Great Joy, Not Fear
Every year, I unwrap my little bamboo angel choir and lovingly arrange them near my nativity set. While living in Indonesia, I was always on the lookout for unique,...
Mary’s Everyday Obedience
8 years ago, I was blessed to be “great with child” during the season of Advent. Our first child, a much-prayed-for, long anticipated rainbow baby, was due on January...
