The Many Kinds of Guilt
When I thought about the theme of guilt, my first reaction was that I don’t feel guilty or experience guilt all that often. I haven’t robbed...
Category: Life Overseas
Body Care, Soul Care: Ideas from the Instagram Team
It can be challenging to nourish our bodies while serving cross-culturally. There might be new foods that require an adjustment, new ways of shopping for groceries, and resources that...
One by One
Whoever wrote “The Ants Go Marching One by One” did not live in the tropics. Lately, in my kitchen, it seems more like they go marching...
Grace in the Trenches: A Brother’s Q & A
I had the privilege of being on a team in Cambodia with my sister and brother-in-law. I asked my brother-in-law, Ben Tillotson, to share about the joys and struggles...
Friends Like Family (a TCK Q&A)
When we first moved overseas, our eldest son was a quiet but game-for-anything 5-year-old. We told his stories easily and without a second thought. But now that plucky kindergartener...
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Being Authentically Me
It’s that time of year, where it almost seems mandatory to send out a “Hey! Yes, we’re still alive and look what we’re doing/what’s been going on!” update, photo...
12 Days of Expat Life
The first week of January, I gave my kids the option of putting the Christmas tree away with me or leaving it up 2 more days, then I would put...
The Call of God
In college (before the age of cell phones) we used to leave messages for friends on dorm room answering machines. After my husband's best friend took a short-term trip to...
Learning to Ponder
I can’t believe he is here. I’m still amazed this has even happened, and to me of all people. Maybe the fact that he is a boy, as the angel...
Unexpected Christmas Treasure
During one of our Christmas times in China, God blanketed our courtyard with snow in the early morning hours. It was magical. A gift. Before the arrival of footprints and...
