There is a picture of my husband and I – and I don’t like it. We have smiles on our faces, but we are tired, scared, and jet lagged. Behind us hangs a Chinese flag. It was taken in the middle of a government office in Zhengzhou, China in 2015. We had finished fifteen months of the adoption process and felt like we were crossing the finish line. We were happy, but also there were questions. Our daughter’s medical needs were much more severe than we had anticipated. Behind our…
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One Aspect That Makes a Home
Our first home as newlyweds was a yellow house with black shutters. It had three bedrooms, a super tiny kitchen, an unfinished basement, and a sweet little loft. The best feature was the screened-in porch in the back. I would sit out there with my coffee and Bible almost every morning. I breathed in the fresh air, and even as the days grew cold, I wrapped myself in a blanket and sat on the glider that belonged to my grandmother. The yellow house had a lamp in the front yard….
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One Way God Speaks to Us In Our Grief
God isn’t looking for perfect people, just faithful ones. Noah revealed his faith with actions. God told him to do something crazy and silly. Let’s be honest. How many of us would have built this crazy ark? The world was going south fast, but this seemed like a crazy rescue plan. A boat? What was a boat anyway? Some scientists and scholars believe it had never even rained before Noah’s time. Only God builds an ark before the first drop of water falls from the clouds. The rescue plan was…
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How to Stay Safe When the Rain Comes
The rain comes fast these days in Honduras. We’ve only lived here six months, but I’ve learned something about Honduran thunderstorms. You can’t see them coming. A quick walk around the block can be unexpectedly interrupted by the boom of thunder and a flash across the sky. The rain doesn’t just start to sprinkle, it immediately pours! There have been times I’ve walked outside to clear blue skies when a few minutes later the sky turns dark, the world clouds over, and in the distance I can hear thunder. What…
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