Somehow my last post was already two months ago. Writing about grief always kind of sucks all my public writing juices for awhile. I say public because I am writing quietly here on the side when I get a chance. One project is basically completed, I am just praying about what to do with it.…
Surgery Date
The outpouring of your love and prayers and help over this last week has been so humbling and such a comfort. It has felt like a chunky knit blanket wrapping me up against a wintery storm of fear and doubt. May God bless each of you and recompense you enormously for the blessing you have…
#100
It feels appropriate that the 100th post on this blog should be the one before us: news and philosophical rabbit holes. But first, let's celebrate. 100. It's taken me a few years to get here (my very first post here was in 2019) which makes it even sweeter. Thank you to each of you who…
Chiapa de Corzo
It begins as perhaps millions of family stories begins. A young man and a young woman up in the hills in Chiapas fell in love and were married. He worked in the fields, planting corn season after season. Every couple years a new baby. And every week the same dilema: “And the money you made…
Hymn List
Hello to everybody in 2024! How humbling that God is giving us another year to honor and glorify Him, to devote ourselves: body, soul and spirit to His good pleasure. As I did last year, I'm sharing the list of hymns we sang as a family throughout 2023. There are fewer hymns than weeks in the…
Let’s Travel: Across the Country
News. We left home on October 15th. Arrived to an AirBnb that hadn't been cleaned. Scrambled for another place to crash. Arrived to Oaxaca October 16th, 2:00 pm. Meetings in Magdalena Apasco Oct. 16, 17, 18. *Encouraged by renewed interest* Travel to Zamora, needed time with family and believers finally. Sad, yet healing. Surreal to…
The Magical In-Between
It was our last night away. We wound up the mountains to the Maltrata Pass in Veracruz on our way to a hotel in Córdoba. It was very dark, though not late, and I felt my anxiety levels rise. Recent reports of hold-ups, highway robberies, on that very highway brought back a flood of memories.…
Physician’s Assistants
We left home at the end of March on an epic multi country extended trip. David flew down to Colombia for a conference, came back to Mexico for another one, then we flew to Canada to spend some time with friends and family. These have been several weeks of delicious drowning in the unsounded depths…
Happy 8th Glory Day
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. But we by a love so much refined, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but…
I Grieve Your Blindness
Several weeks ago the kids and I delivered gospel calendars for the new year here in the village. It was evening and we walked along slowly gifting them to old acquaintances, smiling and awkwardly signing some off to a deaf family, leaving them at homes so religious, so anti gospel it seemed futile to even…
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