Gasping

Lately, it has begun the minute I get up in the morning.  I turn on my iPod for background music as I wipe away the bleary-eyed remnants of sleep, attempting to get my head and my thoughts in the right place.  It’s worship music – instrumental or vocal...

A Million Lights

Christmas is a season filled with a million tiny twinkling lights.  As we hang strings of lights on our roofs and take our starry-eyed children on drives to look at lights, let’s remember what it’s all about.  All of those lights…all of the...

In Death

“You make life worth living You make me want to start giving More and more away to you It’s not mine anyway.” (J.J. Heller, “Not Mine Anyway”) Fall is my favorite time of year.  There is just something in the air that breathes new life...

Sleep In Peace

This is another of the posts I wrote during my last trip to Belize.  If you would like to read more about my experiences in Central America, you may click here.   Yesterday we had the privilege of serving alongside our Belizean friends. During our week together,...

At The River

This is Ingrid. If you’ve been visiting me here for long at all, you’ve probably already seen her sweet face in other posts I’ve written about my mission experiences in Belize.  Over the past two years, something about this sweet girl has struck a...

Ms. Rosa

On Monday morning during this past trip in Belize, we had scheduled a time for the women of our team to work alongside the women of the Evangelical Quest Church – our sister church in Belmopan – to make fleece blankets.  The blankets would be used later in...