Lately, it seems like everyone is fighting or arguing or puffing themselves up towards each other—uncannily similar to my neighbor’s roosters that endlessly wander into my front yard, bickering and squawking and flapping their wings at each other over bugs, …
Category: On Life, Home & Family

What I’m Reading Wednesday – Parenting by Paul David Tripp
The book Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family is one of the best books on the subject that I have ever read. In fact, I have to admit I procrastinated a little bit with writing about it, because …
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A Little Clari-Tea
{Forgive the title.} Living on the mission field has a way of simplifying your outlook. You may find that you are thankful for things you used to take for granted, and that most of the things you used to need …

Happiness Is…
Hanging out your sheets to dry in the sun, and watching pelicans dive in the Sea. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A Perfect Morning
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psalm 34:8 A perfect morning, sipping lattes in a little hideaway cove, watching the kids get out all their energy after weeks of …

Happy Thanksgiving
When I think back over the last two years, I am so very thankful and overjoyed to be where we are today. God has lovingly brought us through so much, literally parted the Sea for us, and bestowed bountiful blessings …

A Long Silence
The truth is, life became so chaotically busy and hard, that the right words to share just wouldn’t come. Maybe you, too, have been in a place that was so full of beauty but yet so intensely painful all at …

First Blog Post from Honduras!
On the one hand, I can’t believe we have been here six months and this is my first blog post! On the other hand, it has been the craziest whirlwind of six months I have ever experienced. I have barely …