Years ago we were sitting on our front porch taking a break in the tropical heat chatting with the father of our teenage daughter’s best friend. He was reminiscing about his family’s long years in this primitive third-world country where we now served alongside him. The stories began to flow and I’ve never been the…
Category: Inspiration
Cannibals
The drone of the approaching small airplane drew a crowd of villagers to the dirt airstrip to await its landing. In a remote jungle village, the arrival of the airplane provided a break from the monotony of daily life. . . a curiosity, a diversion, some free entertainment. But when the new-to-the-area pilot climbed down…
Boomerang
Want to be happy? Make someone else happy! Happiness is a boomerang – you send it out to someone and it returns. Think of all those times when it just seemed like a lot of effort to make someone else happy. But afterward, you were happier yourself! We all know that making others happy makes us…
Listening
This weekend we were privileged to visit a landscape like no other we’d ever experienced. Steep mountainsides cut with waterfalls and topped with glaciers. Bare rock peaks wrapped in mist dropping into turquoise lakes. Not one peak, but hundreds standing shoulder to shoulder in every direction. The wind and the wildness pressed into us. There we…
Appointments
Click, click, click, click. Today was a beautiful morning and my car windows were down as I drove into the little town five miles from our house. Uh, oh, I shouldn’t be hearing a click with each rotation of the tires. Better pull over and see what’s going on. There were plenty of parking spots…
Is God Happy with Me?
What does God think of me? Recently I had the privilege of getting some personalized soul care. The wise woman who had been mentoring me over the past 5 months had suggested that another woman join us for a time of guided prayer as we wrapped up our study together. During this time, I was…