Last week, my mother-in-law called me crying. I was worried something was wrong. She began to talk to me about how she would never drive again (doctor’s orders), and my heart hurt for her. Then she told me that she didn’t want to sell her car. She told me she wanted to give it to me. I didn’t understand at first. I began to explain…
Anyone who knows me knows that one of my absolute places to be is at the base of a waterfall. It doesn’t matter how many times I visit a specific waterfall, I never cease to be mesmerized by its beauty. Last week, I visited such a place with friends. The chilling waters remind me that I am alive – boy howdy, that water was COLD!!!…
I love it when a scripture jumps off the page at me screaming, “This is for you! This is for you!” Well, maybe not literally but the Holy Spirit definitely illuminates certain verses at just the right moment. I’ve been praying for someone who is in a situation that is hopeless unless the Lord intervenes. I recently received a letter from him, asking to pray that…
I once had a professor who encouraged us to dream hog wild! She asked us, “If there was nothing to hold us back and we could do anything in the world, what would our lives look like?” I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. When someone asks my daughter what she’s going to be when she grows up, she answers “a wedding dress…
I was blessed to spend three weeks in Africa this summer and while I was there I met many wonderful people. Two women however, will forever be etched in my memory. I want to tell you about them and for their privacy, I will call them Ghati and Robi. I was visiting homes with my friend Suzie and our Maasai translator when we met these…
I was traipsing up the mountain through a cane field in Kenya because its owner wanted me to see the vastness of sugar cane field. On most days, this would have been a welcomed endeavor, but it was the end of the rainy season in Africa, and with each step I seeped deeper and deeper into the mud. Trying my best to keep the bottom…