The obsession started well over a year ago. Not princesses, not unicorns. Not horses or puppies or kittens. Whale sharks. Those behemoths of the ocean had the hearts of two little girls in Papua New Guinea as soon as they learned of their existence. I’m fairly certain the fascination started with an episode of Octonauts […]
Home assignment. A concept that used to be as vague to me as job titles in Washington, D.C. What happens to missionaries on furlough? Do they have jobs and live normally? Do they live in a house? Do they own that house and, if so, how does that work? Do they still need financial support? […]
I picked at the dried mud cradling my feet, flakes crumbling under my fingernails as chunks of dirt cracked off and fell to the soggy ground. The wind whispered by my face giving sweet relief to the sun’s heat that was trying to beat through intermittent clouds, but neither the wind nor the sun dried […]
Last week my parenting skills triumphed. I mean, I had it all together. Brian was gone, but the girls and I were great. Sick, sure. Missing him, definitely. But I could handle life by myself. No. Trouble. For months we’ve been planning and talking about a family “work” trip. The girls and I would tag […]
The Abu boy picked his way through the sticky jungle with some other children, despite the tribal fighting going on between their people and a neighboring group, the Mbore. Perhaps the children were stalking through the undergrowth using their homemade slings to shoot flying foxes. Maybe they were shouting simply to hear their own muffled […]
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