The Routine of Relaxing {The Grove: Relax}
I probably shouldn’t be giving advice about how to relax because I’m fairly horrendous at it. Relaxing, for me, takes work. I can rarely make it through watching an entire...
Category: Spiritual Formation
When Going Means Staying
Every couple of months, I get a certain impulse; I start looking online for cheap flights to anywhere that has sun. I imagine taking my girls or my whole family...
The Death of Perfection
I’m a perfectionist. I like rules. I like to know what I am supposed to do so that I can do it right. I don’t like being wrong and I...
We need God (not the other way around) {The Grove: Limits}
Living and serving overseas can be very humbling. There’s that moment when you realise that the things you were great at in your home country, are, well,...
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…but to please God…
It was late at night and I had turned to the sink to wash my face before bed. This routine action is usually quickly done. However, on that day, I...
Risen, Yet Still Waiting for Resurrection
The seed to live this life overseas was planted in my heart 20 years ago. Over the years God watered, grew and intensified the desire to know Christ and make...
From Perfectionism to Participation
From a young age, music has been woven into my daily life. Like many young kids, I had piano lessons, as my parents hoped that learning an instrument would teach...
The God Who Sustains
This morning my husband dragged his weak body out of the bedroom and I bitterly thought to myself — but accidentally out loud — “agh, still? I don't know how...
Safe in the Arms of the Father
"Do you have a safe place?” she said. She being my therapist. As soon as the words came from her mouth, doubt and questioning rose up within me....
Being in Tune
My sister recently hired someone to come and tune her piano. She proceeded to inform me she was unable to stay in the same room as the tuner brought the...
