Author: Michael and Stacy Creech

Friday night I closed my eyes as I laid awake in bed, and I thanked God for failed batteries and infected hands. It may seem like an unusual prayer, but it was heartfelt nonetheless and my soul was comforted. Though it was late, my head was full of questions. On short notice I had flown […]

“Be still and know that I am God…”  When things happen in ways that you don’t understand.  When sickness just doesn’t seem to let up. When long held hopes and expectations aren’t met.  When unknowns loom up like giants… “Be still and know that I am God.”  Those words were God’s comfort to me in […]

“People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed! Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day, will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in the one case, the fine weather has got into them, in the […]

It is one of my least favorite things to do. I have an expectation for something to happen, and instead of it coming to fruition when I think it should, I am left waiting.  Waiting is hard. Waiting is stretching. Waiting forces me to admit once again, something I’ve probably forgotten, again: I am not […]

I remember thinking about missions before we had arrived overseas. I imagined it out, excited, and also scared at times. I knew some of what to expect, from growing up overseas, but being an mk is not the same as being the grown up missionary.  Details were fuzzy in my imagination of the future, but […]

He walked up to us as we were talking and greeted us. He held my hand after we shook hands, just long enough for me to begin to be uncomfortable with it.  As he sat down, engaged my friend in conversation and started talking to me, I found myself wondering why he was speaking the […]

I once read a story in which limpets featured as an example. These tenacious sea creatures are extremely difficult to pry off of rocks because they latch onto them with such force.  Late last night, or early this morning, it occurred to me that I would very much like to be like a limpet.  Life […]

The water is cut. It’s early in the morning and it’s out again. We have a bucket, so we should be fine for a while.  Eventually the bucket runs out and I go to the reservoir, only to realize that we have forgotten to fill it up. It’s almost empty and suddenly the water shortage […]

“Are they all yours?!”  I hear this phrase a lot whether in the US, or in Senegal. Any time I am out with all 5 of my kids, people tend to comment. I love the pleasure that I hear in peoples’ voices when they comment here though.  I recently took a trip up to the […]

The market is loud and bustling with people, although not quite as crowded as some days. My friend and I duck under an umbrella and step into one of the alleyways that wind back from the open road. Everything is covered here, although you can catch glimpses of the sky between buildings and the tarps […]