In the glory there is peace, understanding, and fullness of joy, may He catch you in the GLORY this day: My Child whom I love, today I want to tell you… “My Kingdom will prevail. It advances in spite of storms, winters, seasons of mourning, and seasons of love. Nothing will deflect it. My kingdom […]
“The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from Fear “..Ralph Waldo Emerson In light of the recent attacks against Paris and the people of France, we have seen fear escalate not only across peoples of this nation, but across the nations of the world. Fear […]
My husband and I just returned from mission in Croatia, Greece, Turkey, and along the Syrian border. We saw hundreds of refugees everywhere we went; the parks, the subway stations, the alley ways, everywhere. Recently the media has responded with signs springing up in the news and on the internet saying …”Christians walk on water […]
Yesterday I reread an essay from a book by Lewis Thomas entitled “The Medusa and the Snail”, published in 1979. The medusa-snail story is an extraordinary tale of a mature jellyfish engulfing a tiny newly-hatched slug, only to be devoured bit by bit until the snail dominates. When a snail is small, the jellyfish will sometimes […]
This morning Job and I were a bit awestruck by an amazing passage in his book. Although I have read the book of Job several times, today, the Lord allowed me to see it in a new way that I have never seen before. I love it when He does that! : Job 26:7-8, […]
An amazing story about the women of Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia! A must read!….. When gynecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left their home in Australia for Ethiopia, they never dreamed that they would establish what has been heralded as one of the most incredible medical programs in the modern world. But more than forty years […]
Kenyan Githeri This simple, nourishing dish, githeri, originated with the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya. Lately there has been an upsurge in the consumption of githeri due to the health benefits associated with the dish. The combination of beans and corn supplies a full complement of protein for the often protein-poor diet of many Kenyans. Secondary […]
Our experience in Yirgalem, Ethiopia was both memorable and life-changing. Traveling from the city of Awassa, we proceeded over rugged dirt roads and traveled through places where there were no roads to reach our destination. We spent the night in huts and saw exotic birds with enormous white bills and Abyssinian black-and-white monkeys frolicking among the […]
There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between children and parents as about the epidemic that every year leaves […]
Why did my husband and I do a month long mission in Ethiopia and Kenya? And why do we feel the urgency to maintain momentum for mission whether we are in the U.S. or across the world? Mission is a full time job both locally and abroad. Missionaries who think they are going overseas to […]