When it’s Time to Step Outdoors and Live.

Who would have guessed?  White, powder-like grace covers the ground.  Eight-year-old shouts from her window, scrambles downstairs. Warm clothes on. Wanting to rush out and make snow angels. Our smallest one and I, much slower.  Me, remembering the cold, her not knowing why the green trees, pasture, and everything she has known since she has gotten […]

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Surprised by Something New.

I wanted to leap through the map filled with missionary faces, jump into their story, sit down and absorb their experiences of truth and faith.  But, he called me outside.  Just as faces were rising up the stairs to a conference I hadn’t heard about.  One lady, arms filled, turned around, walking back towards us and […]

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