by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 27, 2012 | Faith
March 27, 2013 – This is an older post, published exactly one year ago. Since then, I have been on two more trips to Belize and have left more and more pieces of myself there. The same issues are weighing on my mind and my heart today, and in my homesickness...
by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 15, 2012 | Faith
I got new glasses today. I’ve worn glasses since third grade, when my teacher told my parents that she didn’t think I could see the board and the overhead and everything else at the front of the room. Over twenty years later, I am still impressed that she picked up...
by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 1, 2012 | Faith
Then He said to then all, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24) There it is. The core of...
by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 18, 2012 | Faith
Fear. I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to run from it – telling myself that my fears are unjustified and even imagined. I’ve seen counselors and doctors. I’ve cried many, many tears and hidden in too many dark rooms because of fear. I’ve missed out on things...
by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 14, 2012 | Faith, Family
A few years ago, Scott and I went to a local air show. Scott’s father is a pilot, so he grew up around airplanes and different aspects of aviation. As such, he was less enthralled by the stunts of the pilots than he was at the childlike enthusiasm of his wife, who...
by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 9, 2012 | Faith, Fellowship
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work…Now you are the body of Christ, and...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 31, 2012 | Faith
I wrote last week about the journey of forgiveness that Jesus has called me to lately…or rather, about the journey He called me to a long time ago but that I have only now chosen to embark upon. The situation in my life must remain private for the sake of...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 28, 2012 | Faith
(Originally posted in August 2009) There is a village in Iran made entirely of houses and buildings carved out of volcanic rock. It is estimated that some of the houses have been there – as houses – for 700 years, inhabited and re-inhabited hundreds of times through...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 26, 2012 | Faith, Family
(Originally posted in August 2011. Once I get over the cold that has seized my life, perhaps I’ll have more original thoughts to convey…) This morning on the news, I heard that NASA has launched an unmanned spacecraft destined for Jupiter. This craft…it will fly for...
by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 24, 2012 | Faith
I saw an amazing thing this morning after I dropped my sweet girl off at school. On a busy street corner (really, one of the busiest in town) two men stood in conversation. One of them wore sunglasses, carried a distinctive walking stick, and stood staring straight...
