I got the text around 5:30am My friend, Emily, was on her way to the hospital with contractions. Usually this kind of news would bring about joyful anticipation… but not today. She was only 24 weeks and 1 day with her precious baby who desperately needed to be inside her mama until she was big ... Read More about Watching Suffering, Seeing Jesus
Hospitable Together – Making Service a Family Mission
"We're going to be a blessing to this family." Those were words I heard so many times growing up. Almost every week we had at least one family come over for dinner, often more. My mom would prepare a meal, usually with food items that were difficult to find in Mongolia so it would be extra ... Read More about Hospitable Together – Making Service a Family Mission
Motherhood: A Call to Radical Selflessness
It was 3am. I had already been up several times nursing our newborn when I heard my three-year-old daughter begin to sleep talk in the other room. I knew what would come next: my one-year-old daughter would be woken up by her big sister’s out loud dreaming and would begin her angry cries. This ... Read More about Motherhood: A Call to Radical Selflessness
A Note to the Single
We live in a world where two makes sense and one is often seen as only a problem to be fixed. This leads those who are single to often feel inadequate for the job of living life and lacking in their experience of joy. Yet, in the scope of reality, the feelings of inadequacy don’t simply fade ... Read More about A Note to the Single
A New Earthly Home + Grounding When Stress Hits
If you had told me in August we would be moving this fall, I would have thought you were crazy. Well… God has a way of doing things that surpasses our own understanding. Because that is exactly what we’re doing in exactly one week. The story behind this new home is one only God could write. ... Read More about A New Earthly Home + Grounding When Stress Hits