Those Pesky Prepositions
I once read the book titled With by Skye Jethani. I had long heard my pastor quote Skye, and the book came highly recommended by a co-worker. I thought it...
Category: Overcoming Obstacles
Fitting In and Standing Out In a New Culture
How often have you heard the words “cultural differences” or “culture shock” since you moved? I bet it’s a lot, because – and I try to say this without any...
Finding Fun on the Field
Picture this: You are standing in the middle of a soccer pitch, the game in full force. The people around you are yelling to one another in a language you...
The Only Sure Thing
They started asking, and we started wondering: are we ready to go back? We had booked our tickets in early January, inked a departure date on the calendar, I mentally...
The Gift of Purity
I used to bristle at the word pure. Amidst the #metoo movement, there has also been recent backlash against my passport country's “purity culture," even amongst believers, so I suppose...
Anxiety as Extra Baggage
Years ago, I was on a flight from Seattle to Moscow, Idaho. I had just spent a week away in Minneapolis with my husband getting vetted for cross-cultural work, I...
A Walk in Discord
After a doctor’s appointment, some tests and a scary diagnosis entered my life in the last month, I find myself going back through Psalms verse by verse....
Passing the Swamp
I had this nagging sense of exhaustion hanging over my head, walking in fog that I couldn’t quite define or explain. A persistent tiredness for which I didn’t have words,...
M A R G I N {A THINK TANK}
I have this bad habit of wanting to cram too much information on a single page of paper. Whether it’s a marketing graphic or a party invitation or I’m just...
When Reviving Doesn’t Look Like Reviving {The Grove: Revive}
Want to know the irony of this post? I was sick on Sunday. Well, it started Saturday evening with purging the contents of my stomach. To be...
