God Is Not Boring
I have learned that God is not boring. Instead He is full of surprises. Some of these surprises I like and some of them I detest, but they all come...
Category: Re-Entry
Hope for the Rootless Days
My heart has always been rooted in rich Nebraska soil. As a kid, my imagination transported me around the world and back again, but my feet never wandered farther...
Five Lessons I’ve Learned From Connection Groups
When I returned to my passport country after 16 years overseas, I knew it probably wouldn’t be plain sailing. I thought I was prepared for that. After all, I’d read...
Let the Grief Waves Come {The Grove: Re-entry}
I stood there in the grocery store produce section, crying over mangoes. They were the wrong color. I had been back in my passport country...
Surviving College Re-entry
I was eighteen when I returned home to California. It was an intense summer before college began. I learned to drive, pump gas, get a bank account and found...
Secure in the Fog of Re-entry
Transition is no joke. I don’t care if you’re single, married without kids, married with littles, or married with older kids. IT’S HARD. One year...
Three Truths for Skydiving
Re-entry was like jumping out of a burning airplane holding (not wearing) a parachute. Don’t get me wrong…we did everything in our power to “leave well.” I promise I’m...
The Mystery Box and Resurfaced Wisdom
A little over two years ago as we prepared to move back to Texas, we were packing and purging stuff from a decade’s worth of our life in China....
A Holiday Blessing for all who Wander
Thank you so much to those who have already given to our year-end campaign! We are excited to report we have raised $13,427.00 so far! Make sure you head over...
Content with the Way it Went
I’m finally arriving at the phase of transition of being able to look back fondly. For an entire year after we returned stateside, I couldn’t look at photos of our...
