Stay for a Coffee
One of the first things I learned about French culture is that it is sloooow. If a culture has a love language, the love language of the French is unmistakably “quality time.” Which works out well for me, because I am 100% a quality time kind of girl. What living in this culture exposed in […]
The Two Dreams that Taught Me the Invitational Heart of God
I was casually walking down the aisle of a bookstore in Asia when a picture leapt off the cover of a book. It was my own children! I instantly understood: I had misunderstood the invitation. I thought we had been invited to help the small local photo studio make a brochure. Then, days later, someone […]
A Command Invitation
Our garage had become the storage space for all of the family stuff. We were the ones who lived in the same house for more than 25 years so naturally all family treasures were deposited in our garage. That was until we decided to go back overseas. We started sorting through all of the […]
More Than an Invitation, A Way of Life
One word changed the idea of spiritual practices forever. The simple word invitation. Adele Ahlberg Calhoun wrote the beautiful yet profound book Invitations from God. In it she writes, “Some invitations we desperately want: ‘Will you marry me?’ ‘Would you consider a promotion?’ Other invitations we never want to receive but must respond to all the […]