This afternoon marks exactly three weeks. It was Saturday, Mother's Day in Mexico and three days before my 34th birthday. They tell me that we went for a ride down the beach on the quad, a typical Saturday evening. Apparently I was taking a video of the sunset, the crashing waves, the pink sand. And…
Crocs and Kids
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.…
A Selfish Request
Hi Friends, Just an extremely brief note today on behalf of your's truly. Last week my gynecologist detected a tumor in my uterus, otherwise known as a myoma. Thankfully these tumors are always benign. It is about the size of a small orange and although it isn't inherently dangerous, is still causing some problems and…
Hello 2025
Happy New Year to all of you! Thanks again for being here with me year after year. As always, my desire is to serve and bless you through these posts and reciprocally your faithfulness and interest is so appreciated and an enormous blessing to myself. Once more I'd like to leave you with the list…
Overdue.
I'm on my third cup of tea already. First chai. Then Earl Grey. Now Ceylon Alwazateen. It's just one of those days. Delightfully dreary and slow, painfully sad and full of introspection. The neighbor girl is here, pulling out every toy possible and whipping up a general hurricane. I don't even care. Her mom abandoned…
#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…
Death is a Promise
Death is a PromiseThat there is another side. The Earnest of Eternity;A slim channel betweentoday and Tomorrow. Death is a PromiseThat full Redemption still waits.The Great Price has been fully paid;A blood-soaked settlement.But Home is yet to come. Death is a Promise That there is another side. They walk through but leave us behindOur tears…
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…
Spring and Summer Favorites
A few things I've enjoyed over the last several months: The Book World: Dangerous topic as this post covers summer which meant extra time for personal reading. A list will suffice: Moby Dick. If you don't know the Bible fairly well, this book will make no sense. The last lines about Rachel still weeping over…
On Miracles
In our cynical, western, enlightened minds, miracles are generally a thing of the past. Supernatural is almost synonymous with superstitious and indeed, the superstitious are often the ones looking out most keenly for the supernatural. As a realist, the facts are the facts. It is what it is. This is, admittedly, often to my detriment.…
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