Ask for God Eyes
I walked down the road awhile before it dawned on me what an odd sight it was to see a dozen dead de-feathered ducks dangling in the tree outside our...
Category: Life Overseas
How Have You Stayed?
I still recall my first step toward making this place feel like home. With a financial gift from friends in hand, I invested in a floor lamp and several...
Tell It To Me Straight {The Grove: Telling Their Story}
Newsletters. I wrote them for 18 years -- paper, email, and eventually some blog posts. Our organization had ‘checkers’ who made sure the content was free of grammatical errors...
When It’s Not My Story
I have a prayer letter to write. It’s been on my to-do list for the past three weeks now -- each Saturday, I write it again in my planner...
Give Them a Voice
When we live and work overseas, like it or not we become spokespeople for those we’re working alongside and living among as we share their stories in our own...
To Share or Not to Share: Adoption Stories
Our shopping styles clash at the grocery store. I prefer to quickly toss what looks good and useful into the cart, while my husband is not at all in...
When the Poor Begin to Bless
When my husband and I arrived in Kenya as Kingdom workers six years ago, we joined a ministry that trained pastors across the country in how to effectively run...
Running, Powder, and the Better Life
A few weeks ago, I got home from a long run, soaked in sweat. It's the kind of sweaty I didn’t know before I took up running in the...
Just Dance
It’s Friday night in 2012 and the lights are low… My five-year-old daughter is dressed in a pink leotard with a shiny black traditional skirt wrapped...
A Different Kind of Opposite {The Grove: Opposites}
When I think of the word opposite, I generally think of definitions like different or contrary. I think of things that are complete opposites like apples and oranges or...
