Sky darkens, earth shakes, lives seem to suffocate under mud, searching desperately for oxygen. While others seem to have an I.V. An answer. A solution for everything. A way to cope and control their future and their own destiny… But what if God just wants us to pray? Some claim education is the only hope of […]
“According to Persecution.org, 200 million Christians are being persecuted in the world today for their faith.” Yet, for the most part the media is silent. While in the mountains of Guatemala, I met an arm-less man filled with Jesus. A missionary there explained to us, a “neighbor” cut it off with a machete because he converted to […]
Elizabeth Stone once said, “Making the decision to have a child – It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” But what happens when that child is gone? What happens when children grow up, leave for college? What happens when time is cut short and your heart is […]
There is nothing like laying flat on your back for two days straight to put your mind in perspective. For sometimes standing straight up and plowing full force forward can delude ourselves to what we think we need to do…. And as my brother who has a large ministry for troubled teens continually says, “Humility isn’t […]
The lingering fumes of my neighbors garbage. Burns alongside the road. Waking me to another morn. Another day. Oh hoping. And praying. And I sit. Knees strong on the dust before me. First thing. Like Abuela taught me. Praying to a God I don’t know. Nervously caressing the dangling emblem. Abuela gave me. Strung around my […]
Does an hour go by. On any given day. That she doesn’t show me her wounds? A cut. A scrape. A tummy ache. Needing me to stop and take some time to. Ask questions? Learn? Listen? Knowing…. The wounds that can’t be seen are those most great of all. The one’s that band-aides will never heal….those […]