I have begun this post several times, and no words feel sufficient enough to convey the wonder of the privilege I’ve had the past 3 months to be in our local church choir. To put things into words feels like it will minimize a wondrous reality. I fear giving you Read more…
I meant to title this ‘random-ness’ but mistyped ‘randomess’, and our life is messy, so I’m keeping it. Life in the raw and real with all the messy parts is life ready for redemption. The kids have just finished their homeschool assignments for today and are making quick work of Read more…
It’s a French word, you know: source. We borrowed it. Here it can mean the ‘well’ or ‘spring’ that drinking water is drawn from. Even if local folks have city water pipes (they provide brown water about 50-60% of the time), they often continue to haul water for drinking/cooking from Read more…
The fun ‘feet’ blog picture we’ve been using as a header has bothered me for a few reasons. Don’t get me wrong – it’s cute and fun, but it was taken during a lovely vacation at the beach in Kenya. And while, I like to look at it and remember Read more…
I didn’t take this time of holding the ebenezer, remembering the year as He laid it before us, last year – we were savoring a visit with family in the US… Sad that the last backward glance at a year of living and loving was here in 2010. Two years Read more…
I heard from our worker this morning that his daughter (who was bitten by a rabid dog last Sunday night) is doing better and better. She slept well last night, and is in school today, in part because exams start tomorrow. Praise God! But there were two people at his Read more…
Over dinner just now our family discussed just how wild a day we have had, and Kent asked, “Are you going to blog about this? Because if you don’t, I will!” You see, I had a peaceful, quiet extra Sabbath day of rest in mind. Today is national election day. Read more…
OK, it wasn’t a real exit poll, but I was very interested to know how the voting went today, so I asked the night guards when they came on shift. I was able to ascertain that: There were MANY people voting. They ALL got a chance to vote. There were Read more…
I almost forgot! To go along with the fascinating sermon on the Fall and it’s effects… I did happen to notice that right in the midst of the part about the serpent, a wayward bat lost his footing in the rafters and flew two circles over our heads trying to Read more…