It’s been a week and two days, and we’re slowly settling in. Our furniture is finding its place, the drawers are starting to make sense,…
Good
It hasn’t been perfect. I’ll say that outright, at the start, lest anyone read my words and think otherwise. These past few days have been…
Borrowed, returned
This has been a good house– a really, really good house. Even though it was never ours, even though our hearts always knew it was…
It’s always something
From 2009 to 2014, I waited. I waited to get to Nepal, because then, things would settle down for a bit. In Nepal, I said,…
‘Til his Bita comes home
News came Sunday morning—early— that Babita’s I-20 had made its way around the world and was safely in her hands. Christopher told me as he…
Packing
My family has moved four times since August 1, 2013. That’s four seasons of purging, four goodbyes, four times where the light switches weren’t where they…
Standing tall
“Now gird up your loins like a man.” ~ Job 38:3a One of my most favorite books of the Bible is Jeremiah, and not just…
To nag or not to nag
It is better to live in a corner of a roof than in a house shared with a contentious woman. ~ Proverbs 21:9 Can you…
Created for work
Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. ~ Genesis 2:15 Our…
Being equally yoked
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? ~ 2 Corinthians 6:14…