Jul 20, 2018 | Personal Blog
I have to admit that I haven’t always been crazy about cheerleaders. It’s probably because the only attention I’ve ever gotten in a gym is when I was passing through on my way to the library and a random volleyball hit me in the head. But I’ve...
Jul 10, 2018 | Personal Blog
Have you been listening to the news much lately? Sometimes when I take in the world with all its pain and division, with its screaming voices and tears, it’s just too much. I start to wonder if it will ever get better- or if this is just the way it is...
Jun 26, 2018 | Personal Blog
See these sweet faces? Last Thursday morning while I was supposed to be helping these smart and funny and loving first and second graders be Jesus’ hands and feet in the world, I seriously wanted to bop a couple adults over the head. Or at least give them a good...
Jun 19, 2018 | Personal Blog
Charity (not her real name) was six when they burned down her village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and murdered the two mothers in her family in the year 2000. “They destroyed everything, all the animals, all the people, with a spear or a machete....
Jun 12, 2018 | Personal Blog
Who doesn’t like to discover buried treasure? Or maybe treasure chucked over the fence and lying out in the open because the park we wanted to “bury” it in was locked shut for the night? If you’re a kid moseying around any of three city...
May 25, 2018 | Personal Blog
Do you know of the Before I Die walls around the USA? I didn’t until yesterday, when I tagged along with Todd on his business trip to Asheville. (What a great excuse to see the World’s Most Fabulous Grandbaby- and spend the night away from my sweet yet...