Ma sighed gently and said, “A whole year gone.” But Pa answered, cheerfully: “What’s a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”
Today, very appropriately three days before leaving South Africa, we finished reading Little House on the Prairie aloud with Phoebe. I remembered reading the story as a child: how the family [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Goodbye, Little House
Nov 26
Nothing profound today
Nov 23
“Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects of life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We sometimes refuse to be shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress other people with the fact that we [...]
Home is back behind us
Nov 18
“Why are we going this way? Home is back behind us.” Zeke said as we turned the corner away from Winterton, our home for our first two and a half year stretch in South Africa. It was the last day we would see Winterton. We had said our final goodbyes to friends, hiked for the [...]
Here’s an attempt to respond to a great question, one that seems to come back again and again in my own life:
“I’m in the process of researching organizations and narrowing down possibilities for volunteering overseas. Any suggestions or connections?”
If you know as much as how to type “volunteer overseas” into Google, you’re already swimming in [...]
Just because I happen to write about the mud of life in Africa, it doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of mud in the United States. I just read the following stats:
Over the past 25 years, attending social clubs and meetings is down 58%.
The number of full-service restaurants has declined by 25%, and the number of [...]
