It’s Complicated
The relationship that global workers share with the word connected is just, well…complicated. We who have lived a cross-cultural life quite simply have different bags we...
Category: Life Overseas
Trusting God with the Rest
Rest. This seems to be something I have been thinking a lot about but haven’t been able to fully vocalize in a tangible way. There has been a push...
Our Capacity and His
As I laid on the wooden ‘cot’ and looked at the wall that was covered in spit, all I could hear was the technician say “disfunction … disfunction …...
Embodied
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;...
Location ≠ Identity
"We need to operate, it's urgent. You'll be taken to theatre today." At 29, I was young, enthusiastic and about to start my third year in...
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...
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...
