“Go watch Elliott,” Richard said to me very seriously. I stepped into the kitchen in our tiny wooden jungle home and looked out onto the back patio where Elliott liked to play in the big water basin. He was three and a half and full of imagination and wonder at all the things the worldContinue reading “These Demons are Pretty”
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When True Hopelessness Meets True Hope
Would you travel like this for a total of 16 days to bring the Gospe| to your family? Sometimes I don\’t even want to get out and go to church when it\’s raining outside, for goodness sake! But these men right here? They\’re passionate. They\’re passionate about their Savior and they want everyone to knowContinue reading “When True Hopelessness Meets True Hope”
The Answer Was "Everything"
As she carefully climbed into the canoe, she felt the little baby squirming in her belly. It would not be long before she would meet this tiny person and everyone knew it. That is what prompted this last minute trip downriver to an unknown place filled with strangers. All she brought with her were theContinue reading “The Answer Was "Everything"”
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It\’s time again. The most wonderful time of the year! That is still how we see it, right? Despite the shopping lists and the overbooked calendars and the credit card bills and the cooking that needs to be done, it\’s still the most wonderful time of the year, isn\’t it? Living outside of the USContinue reading “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
We Probably Could End World Hunger… But….
I was listening to one of our local Christian radio stations the other day when I heard something that made me say, \”Hmmm…\” but not in a good way. It startled me. I missed the initial question asked by a listener, but from the answer it had something to do with how Christians spend theirContinue reading “We Probably Could End World Hunger… But….”
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