The sky ran blue and spilled into Lake Victoria’s coolness. We sailed the coolness all day in a wooden boat. Our last stop was a leper colony. We docked on its shores with a loud thud and awkwardly hopped onto land. We met old men and women, disfigured with a lost look in their eye. [...]
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I Touched a Leper
Posted in acceptance, devotional, health, travel, vulnerability, tagged leper colony, leprosy, pain is a gift on January 2, 2012 | 13 Comments »
The Joy of Brainstorming with God
Posted in acceptance, devotional, faith, Holy Spirit, prayer, vulnerability on December 11, 2011 | 8 Comments »
God and I have an understanding: we talk to each other about anything. I figure God knows what I’m thinking so I might as well pray about it, talk to Him about it. (Sometimes I don’t even have words to express what it going on inside, but that’s okay. He still listens and understands. ) [...]
Buttered Toast
Posted in celebration, contentment, devotional, memoir on July 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I moved to the West Virginia mountains at ten years old, a happy-curly-headed-little girl with stars in my eyes. During those years, we built our own home. For the first couple of years, we didn’t have plumbing or electric or running water. My parents made us believe that eating baked potatoes with ketchup and mayonnaise [...]
Free to be a Woman
Posted in beauty, devotional, femininity, Uncategorized, women on July 19, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I was asked to write an article on femininity for the July issue of Daughters of Promise. I enjoyed the challenge of writing this article. It felt right to dig out my notes on femininity and think again about what it means to be a woman. And, now, the article: Free to be a Woman [...]
Listening
Posted in devotional, love, marriage, respect on July 14, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I hear it all the time now: couples correcting each other in public. The husband is in the middle of a story and the wife nudges him and says, “It was a blue shirt, not a red shirt.” Or the wife is ready to tie up her story with a flourish and the husband dumps [...]
Join the Club
Posted in church, devotional, love on May 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I would be rich if I had a penny every time I have heard someone say about an eccentric standard of their church, “Well, this is just how we as a church decided to do things.” Something always jars inside of me when I hear that common justification for a culturally based ultimatum (you must [...]
Mr. My Bad
Posted in celebration, devotional, Uncategorized on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Next time you hear or say, “My bad,” during a bad play in volleyball or fumble something at the office, think of a very tall Sudanese man with a very big heart. Mulante Bol, a Sudanese NBA basketball player, invented the phrase. His poor English and limited vocabulary brought him to say, “My bad,” on [...]
Enough
Posted in celebration, devotional, love on April 12, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I remember being exposed to a certain mindset that said: pleasure is wrong, play is unnecessary and the more you deny yourself, spouting how God is enough the more pleased God is with you. God is enough. But, He is not easily intimidated or weird. He wired us to enjoy his beautiful world and to [...]
What Are We Known For?
Posted in adoption, children, church, devotional, faith, vision on March 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Our Orphan Awareness Banquet is coming up on Friday night. We’re so excited about it and seeing how God will move. We have 144 people registered to come and around twenty children. Please pray it will be a resounding success for God and His heart for orphans. I spent the evening working on our resource [...]
Choices
Posted in devotional on January 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I’m beginning to grasp the far-reaching effects of good and bad choices. Maybe it’s because I’m 27 and starting to see the fruits of choices in both my life and my friends lives play out in more obvious ways. Something happens in the late twenties: the teenage years and the twenties all kind of converge. [...]
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