Holy Competition
When I signed up to write about Compete I wasn’t thinking about the Super Bowl in America. I swear! Really, pinky promise. You might wonder why I’m starting off protesting so strongly. It’s because my team (the amazing Denver Broncos) is in the Super Bowl—which will be Sunday at 6:00 p.m. EST in the U.S.— […]
Iron Sharpening Iron
I’m not a competitive person. My reaction is the same whether I win or lose a game, which makes the fact I’m writing about the theme compete ironic. In addition to not being competitive, language learning is not my specialty. When people find out I spent three and a half years in Portugal, they ask […]
Competition: One-Upped!
It was our first summer back in Asia in the country where I had been born and raised. I was a young wife and mother learning to navigate living in familiar territory, except now I was no longer a child, but rather an adult with adult responsibilities. My family had been well known in that […]
Becoming a Tent Dweller
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1 We want to hear God’s call on our life and know we’re headed in the […]