Tell It To Me Straight
Newsletters. I wrote them for 18 years — paper, email, and eventually some blog posts. Our organization had ‘checkers’ who made sure the content was free of grammatical errors and mistakes before we hit ‘send’ or licked a stamp. But more importantly, the content needed to be truthful, sensitive and respectful; free of exaggerations and […]
When It’s Not My Story
I have a prayer letter to write. It’s been on my to-do list for the past three weeks now — each Saturday, I write it again in my planner for the following week. Our family has been very busy lately, with more church activities than usual and visiting family members (cue cheers and tears of […]
Give Them a Voice
When we live and work overseas, like it or not we become spokespeople for those we’re working alongside and living among as we share their stories in our own circles. For me this was certainly true. Having recently returned from West Africa, I spent two years working in the Communications team on the world’s largest […]
To Share or Not to Share: Adoption Stories
Our shopping styles clash at the grocery store. I prefer to quickly toss what looks good and useful into the cart, while my husband is not at all in a hurry. He often feels compelled to remove my items from the cart to compare them with other options. By the time we inch across the […]
This Week’s Theme: Telling Their Story
It is a privilege, a responsibility, a concern. We steward the stories of the people around us, caretakers of God’s woven threads throughout their lives. We ask people to pray, share stories of celebration and victory, tragedy and loss. Our position is so unique as we straddle two worlds, bridging the gap between them. This […]