The Rain of Rejoicing

October 29, 2019

Rejoice in the Lord your God! For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness. Joel 2:23 It seems a simple thing for the Lord to affirm his faithfulness through something so commonplace as rain. But this easy-to-pass-over declaration in Joel becomes profoundly meaningful when one steps back to examine rain through the lens of the […]

PNG: Simple Reminders

June 23, 2019

Sunshine and rain in the same day resulting in green, green, and more green – the reminder that God sustains the work of His hands. Birds in the morning and crickets at night. Guinea pigs in the grass and geckos in the corners of the house (they eat spiders) – the reminder of God’s creativity. […]

Straddling Two Worlds

April 9, 2018

Merely two months away from our first home assignment after four years of life in PNG and we find ourselves in the awkward position of straddling two worlds. We’ve got one foot on the ground here in PNG – flying, teaching, raising kids, washing dirty clothes, and peeling carrots – while our other foot has […]

Six Little Arms, Two Hands

December 4, 2017

Six Little Arms, Two Hands – A Tribute to Sundays at Church We sit, well, I sit You all cuddle and cleave Your hair in my face Your faces in my sleeve I have two hands That’s all, just two Yet six arms are clinging And make it hard to move It’s the weight of […]

Commentary on the Commentaries on Life

February 12, 2017

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. No one can know a person’s thoughts […]

The Nineteen Hour Thanksgiving

December 14, 2016

We have a tradition Sunday evenings. A lot of families around here do and while most of the men grumble about it, most of the women cling to it with the tenacity of an ant on a sugar cube. In our family it’s called “mom’s night off”…which sounds more amazing than it actually is. In […]

The Ramblings of a Displaced Cripple Part 2

January 27, 2016

I miss my kids. I miss the poopy diapers (though the smells my child emits could blow socks off an octopus), I miss wiping jelly off my four-year-old daughter’s fingernail and off my two-year-old son’s nose and off my five-year-old son’s…well, my five-year-old son. I miss squirting soap in the bathtub as the water’s running […]

The Ramblings of a Displaced Cripple

January 25, 2016

[Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve written. I’m laid up after an ACL reconstruction and I decided to spend some of my time writing, well, rambling, really. So for the next few days anyways, I’m going to ramble on here.] Here I sit. In South Orange County California, in a decent-sized residential house nestled […]

“Lord Help!”

May 25, 2015

Have you ever read Psalm 107? It is a beautiful picture of the Lord’s mercy toward his people and it portrays the very message he’s been writing in my heart the past few months. Lately, I’ve been catching glimpses of my Creator’s face and written upon it the meaning of what it is to be […]

Language and culture

July 26, 2014

We just finished our first week of NCLA (national culture and language acquisition) and it was quite a busy one! A typical week in language study will be Monday to Friday from 8am to 3pm with a few of those mornings spent out in surrounding villages, developing relationships and making fools of ourselves…er, learning language. […]