The Uprising Within
Most days, I don’t even know where to begin. This season, this chapter of life—it is complicated. Not that living an overseas life for the past twenty-three years has been simple. Nor has the joining of two lives, across two cultures and two races, been without its fair share of complexities. And, if you add […]
Untangling the Threads
“Chaos may live there, but so does great beauty.” —Elizabeth Vahey Smith, The Practice of Processing Recently, a friend of mine stayed the night while my husband was still away on a month-long visit to the States. As we pulled out our own crafting to do while watching a movie, she realized her brand new […]
Following Christ in the Midst of Church Hurt
My husband clicked open the email and read slowly. “Looks like our support may be cut because the church wants to hire an additional staff member.” He sighed. We had been in our ministry position for only a year. Really, at this point? We silently pondered. This would be a hardship. We had just fundraised, […]
Do I Love My Host Country? It’s Complicated.
A few months ago, we celebrated eight years living in our host country. Eight years isn’t all that long in the grand scheme of many global workers’ tenures, but for us, every year that passes feels like a victory. Each year, we try to take time to both celebrate and reflect, remembering what the Lord […]
This Month’s Theme: Complicated
These are the things that we are often too afraid to speak out loud. We don’t know what to do with them or if it is safe to talk about them. Spiritual abuse. Witnessed trauma. Pornography use. Disenfranchised grief. Just the hard parts of cross-cultural life. The list goes on. The questions swirl. Am I […]