Almost 10 years ago I sat in the exam room. The doctor took out his pen and began elaborately drawing all over the paper covering the table…my mind for the life of me cannot conjure up the image, but I’ll never forget his words...
1 month
God’s goodness to us is not because of the healing He brought but because of His character and we lean on it in the hard parts of processing, and in the joyful moments of gratitude we are thankful for who He is and how He gives us grace in each moment. So today the girls and I will bake some cupcakes and we will sing happy 1 month birthday to the little soul who has held a torch to God’s favor and grace in our lives. I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about what is the same and different for our kids to empower the many of you we will see face to face to love them well....
Life in the hallways
If my lifespan is a house then I am quite convinced I am “stuck” in one of the hallways. I can look back onto seasons of my life as rooms in this house of my life. I had the room of being a daughter, a student, a teacher. Each season it was not as if I had changed who I was, but merely that I had entered a new room. Some I have loved more then others, some have been entirely unexpected and some have been filled to the brim with grief....
Ephesus
The sound of chalk scribbling on a chalkboard filters through the room. Images of sun, arrows, small mud huts and groups of people fill the board. Thirteen women sit in the small, hot classroom studying Bibles written in five different languages. More than eight tribes are represented and all Bibles lay opened to the book of Ephesians. Each woman carefully reads or listens to the words of the passage in her own language, dissecting the ideas and questions in her mind. Using Arabic as our bridge language, together we transform written truths into images on the board, a curriculum brimming with hope, ready to be taken into homes and translated into the heart language of each woman’s village….
