know god deeply. follow him furiously.
My body feels like I’ve taken a beating. I’m getting rest at night, but the days wear me slam out. Grocery shopping, laundry, dishes, meals, errands, Halloween Costumes, dentist visits, doctor visits, and ballgames. Then I crash before starting all over again the next day. It’s tempting to think the busyness is simply due to the season I’m in; having…
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Have you ever wished you could read someone else’s journal? Not to uncover juicy secrets, but to discover how that person wrestled through the ups and downs of everyday life? I have. There is something immensely helpful about peering beneath a veiled exterior and seeing the inner workings of another’s spiritual journey. I’ve decided to give you something dear to…
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Since day one, many have asked about The New Chick’s biological mom. And for all seven of the months he’s lived in my house, I’ve put off writing about her. But, there is a season for everything, and a time for every purpose under heaven. The first time I saw her it was in the Chambers County Courthouse. I looked…
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She came to us in April. Ragged and filthy, she wore only a flimsy shirt two sizes too big and a diaper that was dirty inside and out. When I opened the door, she was draped across the social worker’s shoulder, sleeping like she never really had before. I gathered her tiny body and took her to the crib in…
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December 8, 2016 Three years ago on December 8, while I was frying bacon, God asked me to say yes to foster care. Several times in my life His voice has been so authoritative, that I had no doubt it was Him speaking. December 9, 2013 was one of those times. Today- exactly three years later – we adopt Rachel…
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August 8, 2016 Sometimes I just can’t get over God’s ways. Like the way he pushed the early believers out of Jerusalem and into the world to spread the Gospel through persecution of all things. And then, He dramatically saved the primary persecutor and made Paul one of the foremost missionaries of the very mission he had previously tried to…
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July 16, 2016 I love being home. I love the kids playing in the yard. I love sitting on the porch watching the birds. I love country roads and simple ways and everybody knows everybody. I will always be wonderfully tethered to home. But I’m also bound to foreign places now. Because even as I sit enjoying the life God…
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July 14, 2016 I have been questioning how I can be satisfied and happy while in another country, miles and hours from my children. Always there is this tension of whether I should be okay when we are apart. I love my children so, and I miss them terribly, but I’m tremendously fulfilled in what I’m doing this week in…
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June 12, 2016 Usually I am hustling around getting children ready for church at about this time on Sundays. Instead, I’m sitting quietly in the yard at the Disciples’ Village campus in Haiti, listening to the soft sounds and soaking up the peace that accompanies this blessed place. We visited a village church today. I could hear a woman praying…
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