Where Does the Fairy Tale Go?
Hope in the Disappointment.
He was the cutest boy I had ever seen. Three and a half feet tall. Baby brown eyes. He lived right across the playground and over the chain-link fence. Brett Elmblad … the name forever embedded in the recesses of my mind.
When Fear Says We Can't
We’ve always told our youngest son the story of the day he turned three. He woke up that birthday morning down in Texas (during language school) and told my husband, Peter, he had a dream he could ride a two-wheeler bike. He asked his dad to get it out of storage so he could ride it.
Exciting News to Share!!!
Exciting News to Share! SOMETHING I AM NOT is a finalist in the 2020 ACFW Carol Awards. The winner will be announced this September. Stay tuned!
A PAIR OF DUCKS- And how we find higher ground.
When we came off the mission field after ten years on the ranch, our debrief coaches handed us two plastic ducks. The kind you had in the bathtub as a kid.
IN THROUGH THE DOOR - How our Medical Families are Coping with Covid-19
I asked my high school students this week to share how the Corona Virus is affecting them. No school. More downtime. Extra projects. Those are some of the answers I got. One student, however, whose mother is a nurse in the local hospital, gave us a glimpse of the added stresses on a family in the medical field.
The Road Less Traveled- And How We Find It
The road less traveled was the ranch road. Four miles of washboard sand through the high desert. An abandoned ranch. And nothing. How could we ever have imagined thousands would be impacted just by saying yes to God?