Five things not to say to people returning from the mission field: 5. “Bless your heart. I know you have got to be so glad to be home.” Believe it or not many people (if not most) who serve overseas actually enjoy it. While they are grateful to reconnect with people they’ve missed, they also left behind people they love. Their homecoming is usually…
We all have those moments when we wish the ground would swallow us up and hide us from the embarrassment we are to ourselves. I’ve had way too many of these moments recently. You know what I’m talking about…those moments when you strut out of the bathroom only to be told your skirt is tucked in (yes, that happened to me today), or those times…
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…