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Confessions of tweenage missionaries

May 10, 2017

Confessions of tweenage missionaries

May 10, 2017

Jon and I are in our mid 40's but in our lives as missionaries, we are about to turn 12. So for all practical purposes, we are tweenage ...
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The Invitation

Apr 26, 2017

The Invitation

Apr 26, 2017

We all get one, the invitation, but it is not always received. Sometimes we miss it. Sometimes we think that we were left off of the list, p...
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A moldy situation

Dec 1, 2016

A moldy situation

Dec 1, 2016

When you don't blink twice about baking the ants in your cake mix and then serving said cake to your friends, When things like, "...
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When Comfort Dies

Nov 29, 2016

When Comfort Dies

Nov 29, 2016

Have you ever reached for something to hold onto or to hold you in place  . . . . As if you so desperately needed that something to keep yo...
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The power of "NOT"

Nov 25, 2016

The power of "NOT"

Nov 25, 2016

The drip, drip, drip, drip, drip of a relentless stream of water from the sky has worn a blister in the pit of my stomach, like the rub of a...
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Deep calls to Deep

Nov 21, 2016

Deep calls to Deep

Nov 21, 2016

There are seasons of life that can feel like they will take you under, wave upon crashing wave without pause to gulp for air. Soul pummelled...
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When Sewage Pops Up in the Street . . . in Front of Your House

Jun 22, 2016

When Sewage Pops Up in the Street . . . in Front of Your House

Jun 22, 2016

A couple of times a year, on our nicely paved street, up out of the circular cement cover in the road seeps liquid sewage. Because of the sl...
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The Undoing of the Undone

Feb 9, 2016

The Undoing of the Undone

Feb 9, 2016

I unravel for His glory. I am the undone. The undoing is the thorn that makes me shriek back, the knee jerk pulling away from the poi...
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The day the gate fell

Aug 8, 2015

The day the gate fell

Aug 8, 2015

It could have turned out differently, the heavy metal gate falling on a body.  I thought he was dead as I watched in slow motion horror,...
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The YEAR I didn't light the oven

Jul 30, 2015

The YEAR I didn't light the oven

Jul 30, 2015

Longing to live in fullness, dealing with the reality of being a broken person in a broken world with opposition on all sides, but also ha...
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No Box

Jan 21, 2015

No Box

Jan 21, 2015

A thickness long since settled on my heart like an eclipse of discouragement that hovered in front of the light source. Like the lid of a ja...
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In spite of worldly turmoil

Sep 24, 2014

In spite of worldly turmoil

Sep 24, 2014

I sit here resistant.  My hands type but my mind locks up . . . what will my hands tell you as they stretch out among this keyboard?  T...
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Jul 2, 2014

Jul 2, 2014

I stood motionless in the corner of my room, my dishoveled bed evidence of my defeat.  I can count on my hand the number of times in my life...
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