Is This Really Happening?
As I type this, I’m sitting in my chair with bleary eyes from my 2:00 am arrival home last night. My body is stiff from flying over the Atlantic, but my heart… oh my heart is overflowing at what I just got to experience. After nine years of offering Velvet Ashes retreats, we did our […]
A Heart Postured to Receive God’s Love
“Give me everyone you depend on, everyone you feel you need,” the tender voice of the Holy Spirit impressed on my TCK heart. “I alone can satisfy you.” The distance from my childhood home and my parents in Papua New Guinea and the adjustment to life in my passport country, the US, had caught up […]
Riches Unending
I was deep in conversation one Sunday at church when a friend, armed with a permanent marker, wrote something on my wrist: พระคุณอันอุดม (Phra khuṇ ahn oo dohm). This, she explained, was what she had been learning about God. She struggled to translate it for me, to find adequate words in English to capture the […]
What If It’s All a Gift?
A few years ago, my family went through a difficult time as my mother battled breast cancer. Going through that kind of suffering is always difficult, but going through it while living on the opposite side of the planet is its own beast. At some point, I made the decision to travel back to the […]
This Month’s Theme: Overflow
Jesus loves us, this we know. But do we, really? Does his love feel distant or does it flow through you, like a river right out of your soul? We wrestle with knowing our love for others should flow out of God’s love for us, but that can turn into a source of tension. The […]