Every year, (I mean every year), I say, ‘This year I will not make New Year’s Resolutions.” (Which end up being false promises and short-sighted solutions to issues greater than this plan I am concocting can fix.) And yet, I can’t resist. …
The Gift of Courage
I have lost a parent to cancer, faced a difficult diagnosis for a child, and have lived a decade and a half in a foreign country. Within those storylines, there have been plenty of opportunities to demonstrate courage (or not). …
Small Beginnings
We were out of projects, out of supplies, and out of motivation. And now, we were almost out of time. My husband Todd and I were sponsors for our church’s youth mission trip to Querétaro, Mexico. We’d visited there a …
Do You Believe?
I participated in a beautiful outdoor worship service recently; it was a wonderful break in an otherwise stressful week. At one point in the evening, I leaned back and looked up at the sky, everything clear and the stars out. …
The Story Isn’t Over Yet
Sometimes I have the great privilege of sharing with the NASCAR community in their pre-race chapels. I first met them through their chaplain, and then started going to a couple of races a year and sharing with them about orphancare …
Born to Fly
I was with a visiting friend recently in a really poor neighborhood in Mexico. Standing on the edge of a small river, we noticed a thin pipe running across the top of opposite banks bringing water from the “civilized” side …
Beautifully Rooted
I have long been a ready, shoot, aim kind of person; a more the merrier, and I-am-sure-at-some-point-this-will-come-out-right kind of girl. It means sometimes there is a mess to be cleaned up that I was a part of making, sometimes it …