“Many try to dodge the hurting by living insulated lives.” I read on a forum. It resonates. These words. And I wonder if we miss this beautiful grace-filled life of joy and sadness, coupled with highs and pain. This life of wonder and imperfections, tough stuff and then the swallows of love that captures us… Or […]
The $7.99 Message, Anyone Whose Ever Felt Despair, Must Read
I walked past it. Didn’t even know the price yet. Still, for some reason it peered and leaned, reached for me….with arms, almost unnoticed. But then I stepped back, spoke loudly to my daughter standing next to me, “I really like those words”. $7.99 is all it cost. And yet, I wrestled and toyed with whether […]
When A Little Boy Connects Two Foster Moms Across The Globe
Like James Bond on a mission with the clock running. Time ticking. Plane leaving. We wind around the streets of Shanghai to come to strong iron gates. Inside, an International School sits resurrected, for all to see. The guard points us in the right direction in Chinese. We drive along smooth cement roads, to find sprawling […]
Being A Disciple In The Storm
Country life was foreign to us. We had come from Seattle; tall buildings, cement sidewalks, everything from derelicts to business people passing us by, daily. That first winter on our property, a blizzard came. The snow covered the ground for weeks. When it melted, we realized we lost a few trees, while other branches hung lifeless. […]
The Path To Your Eternal Spring
I feel it coming. Like the warm, winter storm that swept in and knocked out our electricity for two days. It comes silently, unassumingly. It torrents like joyous winds, that at first we might think will carry the kite of our dreams. But then, it roars. The same wind that cleaned the air, carries seeds, lifting […]
Meet Timmy
As one remarkable Chinese daughter lands in America, a boy with bridle bone desperately needs parents, our foster family is frozen in a system which has included a two-year battle, yet our foster daughter is still far from legally free… God reminds me of the value of children. “It would be better for them to be […]