Before leaving for my very short trip to Swaziland, I prayed that God would make this the longest week of my life. It has been three full days and it already feels like a week has passed with everything that has been packed in so far! Yebo Jesu! I left for Swazi on a Thursday […]
Wholly Broken People often wonder if I left my heart in Swazi, why don’t I go get it? Why don’t I move there? Why don’t I live there if I miss it that much? Sometimes I don’t know the answer to that; many times I wish I did live in Swazi; sometimes I think about […]
Patience is more than a virtue…it’s like money in a bank. After leaving “home” (Swazi) to come “home” (Wisconsin), I couldn’t bare the thought of not seeing my children for an entire year, especially when my baby girl is going to grow up way too fast in a simple twelve months! So, I fervently tried […]
“Esther, just as she was, won the admiration of everyone who saw her.” -Esther 2:15 One of the best birthday gifts I recently received was a letter from my dear friend Rachael. In her letter she shared some insight she recently gained while reading through the book of Esther. She writes, “It’s a simple […]
Isn’t it amazing that the people we think we’re teaching or helping are usually the ones changing, reforming, and refining us? 16 year old Ayanda never ceases to amaze me. She is wise beyond years, tender beyond her tears, and firm in the face of fears. I have learned more from Ayanda in the past […]
A few years ago, I wrote a poem as my mission prayer for Swazi: Not my Love to Give I have learned what it is to love deeply from the heart. But I have learned that it is not my love to give; it’s Yours. So, let me love so boldly, believe so fiercely, fight so selflessly, hurt so […]
It’s only been eight days since I’ve left Swazi, and it already feels like months! It somehow gets harder and harder to leave each time I go. For my fourth “transition” back to American culture, you’d think by now I’d be accustomed to the dramatic changes; however, there are some parts of culture that still […]
From the beginning of this trip I’ve been trying to figure out plans for Tenele to move out of Mangwaneni. She was the first to approach me and tell me she wanted to leave. After my initial surprise, I began going through all the options I could think of as to where Tenele could stay. […]
The other day when Tenele was over, she came into the kitchen with me as I prepared some pologny (a Swazi meat) sandwhiches for the kids. Out of nowhere she blurts, “Mama, you can’t leave.” We had briefly talked about how soon I am leaving, that I only have a little time left here. I […]
During our first meeting with Fr. Larry about the girls home (see a separate blog entry about details on the girls home), we explained Hosea’s Heart and where the name came from. He commented that we should name the house Gomer’s House (after the woman named Gomer, whom the Lord had instructed the prophet Hosea […]
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