“There comes a time when you need to stop crossing oceans for someone who won’t jump a puddle for you.” During my last week of my visit in the States, something significant (but by no means good) happened that prepared me for continuing my “redeeming love” journey with Tenele. It was a heartbreaking situation with […]
After exposing my inner anguish and admitting my struggles with joy and self, I was encouraged by several people to commit more time to prayer. My friend Jess told me that Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity commit two hours of prayer every day so their ministry might be successful. So I went to mass and […]
Jehovah-Raah, the Lord my Shepherd This is one of my favorite names of God! While the Ambassador team, led by my sweet sister, was in Swazi last month, I was able to occasionally join them for team devotions at night. One particular night that I was feeling this separation from Joy and confusing degradation of […]
In my journal on 7/9/15, I wrote: If you have nothing good to say, than your nothingness is your true poverty. I used to average 2 blog posts per month. But in the last three and a half months combined, I’ve written only one. My absence of words and posts is not due to my […]
“We are not here to make an impression. We are here to make a difference.” -Ann Voskamp “Everyone loves ‘justice’ until there’s a cost.” – Eugene Cho “We are called to spiritual warfare, not to a sheltered life of comfort without pain. Our comfort comes from knowing who God is. We are called to be […]
On May 2nd I boarded the plane in Johannesburg, South Africa for an 11 hour flight to Amsterdam and then an 8 hour flight to Chicago. To say I was eager to be home was an understatement; in fact, if this trip hadn’t come at this time, I probably would’ve had a breakdown. I was […]
“On this account I am suffering things…” (2 Timothy 1:2…the finished verse is at the end) It’s probably not a surprise to you if I say that this past year was the most difficult year of my life, for many, MANY reasons. But the greatest suffering was the rejection of the one who inspired this […]
I haven’t seen Tenele in three weeks, but it seems like so much longer. I have heard from her, though. She wrote me a letter and gave it to Ayanda’s younger brother, hoping he’d give it to Ayanda to give to me the next time they met. Luckily for me, it was sooner rather than […]
“For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control.” -2 Timothy 1:7 Although nothing (“neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities…nor powers, etc”. –Romans 8:38) can separate us from the love of Christ, there is one thing that inhibits us from fully embracing his love: […]
“The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. But I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance.” -John 10:10 It makes sense now. Everything. The physical fighting, the knife-threatening, the exaggerated arguing, the falling asleep during bible study, the fact that I’ve been feeling this month like the girls […]
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