Once at a night time prayer meeting, Moses asked for prayers for his wife and two teenage children, who were back in his home country. He had wanted to raise enough money to bring them with to South Africa, but then found out it would be too hard for his high school aged kids to transfer schools anyway…
Archive for April, 2010
It Is Well
Apr 30
On Thursday Adam and I attended a concert of one of our favorite musicians, a folk singer from my home town. Midway through the concert, he told the story of a conversation with a publicity consultant he regretted paying big money for. ”She said when I look at an audience, I should see each person [...]
Have you ever felt like you are a doll in a box sitting on Walmart shelf, and you are a product that just won’t sell, so they just keep rolling back the price, and rolling back the price until it seems like your life isn’t worth much of anything to anyone any more?
I suspect there [...]
Here’s an excerpt from article Adam and I wrote that just came out in Relevant Magazine…
…Travel can become an attempt to disconnect from anything and anyone familiar, as if by escaping the ordinary, life will automatically become extraordinary. But what are we running from? Behind the banter of daring deeds is a common desire to [...]
How to Share Our Stuff
Apr 5
One day while I sat at my computer, four-year-old Zeke walked up and proudly waved his hand one mittened hand in front of my face. “Look Mama!’ he insisted. “Two mittens on one hand!”
On closer inspection I saw that he had managed to stretch one mitten over the other, both on the same little hand. [...]
