When Feeling Fades
How do we, as Christians, cope with constant exposer to great need, depravity, violence, and gore? What happens when we as a society lose feeling?
The Missionary Scent
What scent are you leaving behind when you serve overseas? Is it a pleasant aroma or a prideful stench? May our serving be to others a glimpse of Heaven!
Emergency Relief For Haiti
Many thousands of people from our village of 200,000 have left their homes and are holding out in surrounding villages. Including several hundred across the Latibonet river in the Chevry and Boukan Kare areas. Most have no real shelter, little food, scarce drinking water, and only the clothes on their backs…
A Tree Side Conversation With Myself
My only fear was that I would get to Haiti and I wouldn’t love the Haitian people enough to make a difference. I was afraid that there was no room in my heart to love that much. Or that I would lack the grace to adapt to their Afro-French culture.
Silly? Maybe. But it’s true. I was a mess. There under the tree crying and wondering what I’d gotten myself into.
Looking back I don’t regret that my only fear was not being able to love enough. After all, I will never regret not wanting to be in a country if I couldn’t love the locals. I don't believe anyone should be somewhere where they can't love the people around them.
How Not To Comfort The Grieving
How do I comfort someone who is grieving? It's a question that never seems quite easy to answer. After all, what if I can't relate? Or what if what I am going through seems worse than what they are?…
Though None Go With Me (following God when no one understands)
We are so blessed. I can say that with conviction looking at our beautiful daughter, our thriving marriage, and as I think of all the families we've been privileged to help in Haiti over the years. I love our uncommon life.
Sometimes I struggle, when I am asked to follow God down some lonely path again. To give up the things that I want. To be the misunderstood. To walk through fields of briars. Often, the unique struggles we face make me feel like no one understands.
What About Them? (current world and political events through my eyes)
If anyone knows me well, you know there are three main areas in politics that are important to me. Immigration policy, diplomatic relations, and the outlawing of abortion. I find myself in the strange position of not fitting with either of the two major political parties because both sides stand for things that contradict my beliefs and passions…
H is for Hard and Hope
H is for Hard, H is for Hope, H is for Haiti… There is a Haitian Proverb that says, "Espwa fè viv". It means "hope gives life.” And by life, the strength to carry on through whatever hardship or trials we face.
