Living among the poor is like having all the filters taken off of life. In North America, we can hide our problems, our sins, our addictions, our worries so much more easily. It’s like in North America we can pave over the mud, wipe it off with antibacterial soap, step over it as we climb [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Filters off
May 27
We’re working on a new book together about living life to the fullest, and I couldn’t help thinking, if the book were a movie, this would be the trailer for it. View it here.
Thoughts on Otherness
May 13
“…When you see how the people live, and still more, how easily they die, it is difficult to believe that you’re walking among human beings…”
Not Huddling in the Cold
May 11
On Easter morning my husband asked our daughter Phoebe, age six, to say the prayer. She bowed her head shyly but obediently.
“Thank you God for this nice home and food. Thank you we’re not huddling in the cold. Help poor people and lonely people. Amen.”
I have never before or since heard her use the phrase [...]
So you’ve got that burning itch to go into the world and make a big whopping difference somewhere? You’re ready, you’re willing, you’re starting to narrow down the options, maybe you’ve even bought a plane ticket. Here’s some advice for the journey. Here’s five tips for before you go, five for while you’re there, and [...]
Six Suitcases: On Moving
May 4
The six suitcases and four smaller carry-on bags stacked in the corner of our bedroom hardly even blocked the way around the bed. Was that all that was left to carry away from something so formative as nearly four years in a foreign culture?
