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Entering In: How to Show Up When Words Fail
Brent and I just returned from an intimate time with his siblings after the sudden passing of our Brother-in-Law. Walking so closely with my beloved sister-in-law through those first days without him brought my own grief back in a profound way. This time, though, I...
The Creator God is Here
Selah… pause and calmly think about this! (AMP, many Psalms) This year’s holiday season has been different, both painful and monumental: empty seats at the table, adjustment to life with grown up kids, miracles in ministry, God’s generous provision… Life in this world...
Chosen and Dearly Loved
Chosen and Dearly Loved What being an adoptive mom has taught me about God I’ve been interviewed on podcasts many times, but never by my own son. It was a breezy summer afternoon and Joseph was home from college for a visit. Everyone else in the house was elsewhere...
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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...