{This post was written by my 16 year old daughter, Hannah} When suddenly an ocean separates you from family, friends, and everything you’ve ever known, your world changes. I found myself not knowing how to react. This was my new life. Perhaps even my new normal. All the expectations, that I didn’t even think I … Read more
It’s been six days. We’ve been here most of one full week and it feels like a month. The days feel long and the distance back across that ocean longer. We spent the first several days just trying to get our feet under us in this city with the sweetest tour guides we could possibly … Read more
It’s a real thing. Sometimes every hour seems to hold some new message from God. Because I’ve realized that if I want to hear God’s voice, I have to be listening in the right places. Yesterday, I was coming off a hard day of discouragement. Early in the morning, I sat with my Bible open, … Read more
Ahhh, this journey to truly know God. The climb to understand His will. Sometimes our stories feel like a little bit of the good with a heaping dose of the bad and the ugly. Or maybe it’s just that sometimes we whine too much. Either way, I recently shared a post on my Facebook page … Read more
A missionary call that doesn’t look how I expected. The afternoon was quiet. The girls were gone to the house of friends helping with yard work. The only “older” boy still living at home was gone to the Y and then to his brother’s house for the evening. The three little boys were outside working and playing and imagining. They’d been … Read more