What we know now, we will know in full. I have shared before that one of my favorite spoken word songs has a line that has always nearly brought me to tears, “I’m not there yet but I’m reaching, reaching for a goal to stand before my King and be
What we know now, we will know in full. I have shared before that one of my favorite spoken word songs has a line that has always nearly brought me to tears, “I’m not there yet but I’m reaching, reaching for a goal to stand before my King and be
A very wise friend of mine once translated a quote to me from Frederick Buechner, and it’s something I’ve never forgotten. She told me that our calling in life is the place where our deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Go ahead and read that statement again, it’s
I have lived in Ethiopia officially for 4 months and this is the longest amount of time I have spent outside of the US. I feel..
If I am being honest the last several weeks have been hard. They have been good and I am learning but they have been hard. I am learning to truly listen to what the Lord is saying. I have spent the vast majority of my life trying to listen to
I have never really understood how poverty can have tiers but I am beginning to think that it does.
The issue with maintaining a blog is trying to decide what in the minute is inspiring you enough to write about. As someone who isn’t a writer and not often able to articulate moments very well it is easy to walk through life with pure enjoyment and trying to soak
Prior to my leaving for training in Colorado, my grandparents initiated difficult conversations with me regarding the likelihood of them leaving this earth while I was overseas. In preparing to pack up and leave everything behind, that fear of being absent from specific events has commonly been present in my
I arrived home yesterday after spending the last 4 weeks in Colorado and as I sit on my parent’s back porch with perfect Spring weather (and an inch of pollen on my computer as I type) I am starting to process more of what I have spent the last several
This is a few weeks late as it is now the first week of February… I have always prided myself on great genes and the health passed on to me from my parents. Little to no heart history and limited cancers throughout our ancestry line typically make it easy to
So this is my first blog and here’s the thing… I’ve said before I would never blog because I don’t feel like I have much to say to the world that is not already known. I often prefer to listen to those around me and hear what they are trying