I don’t know how it happened, but somehow, we mothers decided that we should be busy. I blame the NIV Bible, which translates Titus 2:5…
In waves
The email was a welcome bit of encouragement: you are not forgotten, I pray for you and your family, your work. There was a simple…
9,000 miles in love
Here I am, sitting in a hotel room more than 9,000 miles from my home in Tennessee, and I should be spending the evening reviewing…
Left behind
I recently received word that a friend and supporter of our ministry had died following a brief respite in hospice for brain cancer. Slightly older…
Margin
We school year-round—three months on, one month off. The shorter, intermittent breaks suit the rhythm of our family well. By the end of a twelve…
When the words don’t fit
The Gospel is universal but the language we use to share it is not. And that can at times make it difficult — so difficult…
Siblings without rivalry
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On mission
I know this routine well. Wake up in the dark. Pull on some clothes. Whisper to a teenager that I’m leaving. Lock the door behind me.…
Life, education
“Measure his education, not solely by his progress in the ‘three R’s,’ but by the number of living and growing things he knows by look,…
Experiencing Lent
Ashes, fish on Fridays, and giving up chocolate. If that’s your impression of Lent, let me introduce you to something more. Something deeper. Something that…