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Vulnerability
I wanted my word this year to be gentleness, a good word, a fruit of the Spirit, and something I need more of. But God told me, and then proceeded to give me practice in, vulnerability. This word isn’t even… Continue reading
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Following Him
After working for two years to pay off our school loans, with a whole lot of help from family and church family, we were ready to apply to Mission Aviation Fellowship. We moved to cheaper and more central housing for… Continue reading
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Resourcefulness, or trying to look at trials as adventures
One of my favorite pictures from our time in Indonesia is of a diaper that my resourceful husband used to secure a broken rearview mirror when we took a trip out of town so that the mirror didn’t break or… Continue reading
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Celebrating Holidays
Overseas especially, but anywhere we are, holidays are the hardest time to not dwell on what we don’t have and can’t do. Readjusting my expectations while still finding something I can look forward to is the challenge. Our first Christmas… Continue reading
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Flexibility
Did anyone else cringe over that word? One of my least favorite life lessons is flexibility. The most memorable strategy God used was smoke seasons. In Indonesia, farmers use small fires to clear more land. During exceptionally dry seasons, these… Continue reading
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Reverse Bucket List
I don’t have a bucket list, but I do have a list of things I never thought I would do. Things that were stressful but became necessary and now I am kind of proud of them! Things like: learned to… Continue reading
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Mayday
The first thing you see at Mission Aviation Fellowship is Nate Saint’s airplane, recovered after he and his teammates were killed serving in Ecuador. Serving God in the outer regions of the world is not for the faint of heart,… Continue reading
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Becoming Unefficient
I was talking with my girls about character traits and school work, traits like wanting perfection can become too extreme and ruin a project. Or being a little too laid back when something needs to get done can also screw… Continue reading
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Silver linings
Living on the equator was hot. Just hot. All year round. On the 4th of July and on Christmas day. It got old and monotonous, so the challenge was to find things to appreciated. One way that this constant heat… Continue reading
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Perfection
Does Proverbs 31 stress anyone else out? I was talking about all the chores listed in this chapter to my husband, and he said he thought I was succeeding. I actually laughed out loud because I thought he was making… Continue reading
