the year of constant catch up

April 16, 2015

Dry Falls I’m declaring 2015 as the Year of Constant Catch Up. Time is consistently getting away from me. Just this Sunday, we had a partnership informational meeting in the afternoon… the couple we stayed with pointed out that they didn’t know April 12th was their church’s nursing home day, and so there probably wouldn’t […]

driving + journaling

March 11, 2015

This year seems to be slipping away from me. It’s already the second week of March! As usual with this stage of life we’re in, we’ve been doing a lot of traveling and visiting with people. This weekend we drove to and from Orlando, then to Jacksonville one day, and then from Jacksonville to St. […]

seeds of life

March 4, 2015

Part of our “job” right now is to visit churches. Make connections. Talk to people. We’ve visited a lot of churches lately, which means we’ve sat under the teaching of a lot of different people. We’ve heard a lot of different styles of worship. We’ve witnessed how different churches really are. Recently, we visited a […]

checking in

February 27, 2015

It’s been quiet around here. Too quiet. It’s just been hard to be creative at all. It feels like Josh and I are in a holding pattern of sorts. We can’t do this until we do that. But we can’t do that until this comes from that person in this place, with those things. How’d’ya […]

no expectations

February 7, 2015

Two weeks ago, amidst funeral planning and helping my mom, Josh said something that challenged and encouraged me: “Just remember, there are no expectations for you to feel or act a certain way.” He didn’t know it, but I was struggling with what I should be feeling and how I should act. Yes, my grandmother […]

six paragraphs

January 27, 2015

Life is going by at a phenomenal pace right now. The days are beginning to blur together and it feels like I’m stuck in a cycle of working hard, but also doing nothing. It’s kind of bizarre. A lot of our “job” right now is waiting… waiting for paperwork to come in, waiting for appointments […]

kitchen florist

January 20, 2015

It’s hard to believe that January is already half gone. Didn’t we just celebrate Christmas? While I absolutely adore the rush of the holidays and two rounds of company, I admit that I am glad to have the house to ourselves now. This is the first week since we arrived in Florida that we’ve had […]

a marble rolling pin

December 8, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, one of the ladies here at the center, invited me to her house for an afternoon of bread-making. Growing up in the American culture, I never learned how to make bread. My mom used her breadmaker on special occasions, but it was never something that either of us really learned […]

weekend aviation expo

October 31, 2014

Last week I shared the heaviness that has been hanging around and weighing so many people down. Since then, there have been a couple surgeries, and many more prayers for Jon and Adie. The Lord has met me and so many others in those heavy places, right where we were, and held us close, reminding […]

beautiful things

October 21, 2014

It has been a heavy week around here, and really around the globe. Our world has been rocked and our hearts are hurting. As one of the executives here at the office said, “I’m ready to take that step of faith into the Jordan and follow Jesus; but I can’t find the Jordan!” Early last […]