The girls want so badly to be gardeners. They see all the lush, verdant jungle around us and something inside them is reaching out to cultivate and grow. Unfortunately, that’s a huge hurdle for me as a mom. After all the other things we do throughout the day… and because it’s 90 degrees all the […]
What happens when home becomes horrific, and you have nowhere to go? What does it feel like to find yourself unsafe in the one place your foundational thoughts tell you should be your haven? Or worse, when it’s all taken from you and you’re left at the mercy of the world? We are inundated right […]
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 1:19-20 Right. Got it. But that’s just. so. hard. When you’re in the throes of what feels like […]
I forget. I always forget. Ray and Willa haven’t grown up with my norms. They aren’t walking through parks, malls, restaurants, or sitting in traffic at red lights. We’ve been back in PNG from our last furlough for over a year and in that time they haven’t seen a drinking fountain, a public restroom, consistently […]
The following is an assignment about forming imagery in stories from Ray’s homeschooling curriculum that took on a beautiful life of its own. I encouraged her as she dictated, and helped her to order what became an elaborate story in a manner that made sense to those of us not living in her head, but […]
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