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Our Heavenly Father Sees and Knows
Somewhere in the Judean Desert, 2017. iPhone photo by me 😊 One of the most universal things about suffering is that when your time comes to experience it, you feel like you’re going through it alone. Nobody understands. It’s isolating. Sometimes it’s just a feeling...
God Brings Life From Death
“The LORD brings death and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and raises up. The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and he exalts. He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap.” 2 Samuel 2:6-8 Besides the Bible, my...
Twelve Reasons to Hope Despite Your Grief
Facebook has a way of jogging your memory as you’re going about your business and not realizing what day it is. This week, as I opened the app to scroll for a bit, a memory was at the very top of the screen, “12 years ago today…” Three Land Rovers were parked in a...
Backstories
Diving Deep
Sitting on the shore, the balmy weather captivated us as we took in the beauty and surprising glory of the moment. The rain threatened to soak us, so we figured we might as well get wet in the water. Awkwardly, we backed into the breaking waves and plunged into our...
MY Part of the Spear
Reflections on my position as a Mobilizer one year in… In the greater missions community, we refer to the most remote, unreached places of the world as “the tip of the spear” and, though it is an intensely difficult, risky, and often long-suffering service to...
Holes
Photo credit, monicaheffner.com. I don’t know her, but her picture fit the object lesson! “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But...
Living the What-Ifs
Note the zebras in the background. No, we don’t have a new album being released. J This morning I had one of those “ah-ha” moments that I immediately knew I had to share. It was JUST in the nick of time. I just surfaced from riding THROUGH another wave of...