So gripping! So many stories of love and triumph, hope and redemption! I keep saying the same thing over and over again this month, because honestly, I have no other words, “What an honor it is to host these stories.” If you are new, this month we have been sharing a month full of personal adoption […]
Gusts rage against the front of our faces as eyes squint for the big, yellow, school bus, coming up the hill. At only a few feet tall, I see the wind push and pull, take the mighty cedars and bend them low, without question or permission. And I wait, as his tiny voice, resonates through the […]
It all started, here. This miraculous story. My third trip to Chi*a. A country my husband said he would never be entering. A vision. A light. A calling to enter. Every day, we each have choices. Go where He leads us or let fears and hesitations, doubts and intellectualism drown out the calling He’s placed within […]
Built in the 1950’s, it only had eight lanes, wood wrapped floors and a slow, mechanical, bowling ball rotation, that took you back in time. Four of us played. We carefully propped up our ball, eyed where the bowling pins were, and took our shot. The technique and execution were correct, but each and every ball […]
“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” (Matt 5:3) The words ring out from the page, on my daughter’s tenth birthday. A birthday shared without the one she loves close, beside her. And I think about this word, “Obedient”. About the mom who for a year offered us her own two kids, and how we walked faithful to […]
We talked to each other from across the chain-link fence. Mostly making silly sounds, and seeing if the other would mock or repeat them. I was maybe six, blonde-hair….Even then, eyes seeing distant lands. Doug? Seven-ish. One day, Doug, from across the fence, found a shovel his dad had left in a pile of dirt, in […]