You know what they say about people who love the color green…
Read MoreWhat are some ways we can love and support our missionaries well? You don’t have to buy a ticket to a foreign country to show you care; it can be so much simpler than that!
Read MoreLife in Slovakia was beautiful and hard. As Laura said, it was some of the most transformative years of her life.
Read MoreAND NOW….drumroll please…We are starting a new podcast series on MISSIONS!
Read MoreThere’s a tug at my heart because the chapter of “we’re in this single thing together” is coming to a close and our relationship is changing.
Read MoreYou know when a teenager is leaving the house to go out, and the parent yells, “Make good choices!” That’s what I believe God is telling me. Daily.
Read MoreWe had to grab the shoulders of the person in front us and blindly walked into a dark space, an area of the training complex we had never been. We were ordered to walk in complete silence. Once we entered into the darkness, it’s almost as if a switch was flipped.
Read More“Hit Me Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears signified a high point in my dramatic high school career.
Read MoreIt was nice to have it all buttoned up, all in one neat package. My job was obviously intertwined with my faith and vice versa, so there was no need to figure life out. It was figured out for me. Done and done!
Read MoreI was turned down for job after job until I finally started to realize that I can’t manufacture my current happiness based on who I was so many years ago and what made me happy then.
Read MoreI let go. I let go of the expectations and vision I had for my life at the age of thirty...then thirty-one...then thirty-two...then, well, you get the point.
Read MoreIt took me seven years, almost to the day, to realize God was always there, that He was right beside me in each of those moments.
Read MoreMouth open = check. Eyes wonky = check. Ridiculous pose with hands = check. Props = check. Body contorted unnaturally = check.
Read MoreIt makes you feel special, like you are worth the cup they have to wash, not just throw away. You're worth the presentation of it all.
Read MoreGod is pretty cool. I have been broken, cried and yelled, and was pieced back together. Maybe I went through all that, so she won’t have to.
Read MoreDo you ever have those days, or just those moments, when you miss the life you used to live? The "you" you used to be? That time when?
Read MoreYes, it’s cool to be “funny and fun-to-be-around,” but JOY that’s the good stuff.
Read MoreI’ve never considered myself a brave person. A brazen, easy-going, likes-to-try-new-things kind of gal; yes. But not necessarily brave. People have told me I’m brave. I’ve said ‘yes’ to things in my life that maybe other people wouldn’t. But those yes’s haven’t always turned out so great.
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