Tips, Resources and Encouragement
It was not coming to me. Don’t you hate that feeling? A phrase had been running through my head for days and I could NOT remember where it was from… a movie? a song? Instead of being able to match it with something solid, the phrase seemed to float around in my head like a never ending breeze of swirling… Read More
Your daughter is standing before you, red face and tears. Her sniffling nose and tired eyes are speaking to you louder than her words. “Bed. Time.” you think to yourself while grabbing a kleenex from the box next to you. You can see the signs all over her that she needs a break and some hours of sleep will make… Read More
How to let things go. That has been a big part of my year. Letting my heart rest in seasons of change, high stress and challenges. I’ve been in this year of mending. You have been walking it with me. Maybe you are walking your own year of mending. Your own season of letting things go. In the mending, I’m… Read More
My heart eyes can still see the place, the moment when I first felt God leading me into service to Him. I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, with my face down on the scratchy red carpet in a very old camp building. There weren’t any spoken words or big declarations of a calling. Just sweet whispers of a… Read More
You know the moments when we choose to follow Jesus. Those moments come often in our lives. Learning to follow him in everything. One night, I rolled over in bed around 2am, hit my phone to see the time and saw an email alert from the embassy. That’s never good. And it wasn’t. A new, fresh reminder that we need… Read More
I was reading in 2 Kings 5, the story of Naaman, a reminder of how God sees everything. I was reading slowly while drinking my morning coffee. French press. Hot and dark… the last of my Kenyan coffee beans. The palm trees were blowing outside in the hot wind of an early West African morning. The sound reminds me of… Read More