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Redefining Part II: Saturday
Redefining Part II: Saturday “Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me — today.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot Saturday, October 5, 2019 Saturday...
My Fair Margaret
Prelude: It was the year 2000; the very air was tense as Sierra Leone headed into its final year of a bloody and gruesome 11-year civil war in which an estimated 50,000 people died. This in a country with a population of less than 6 million people. Scarce would anyone...
Redefining Part I: Seeing Past the Fog
August 16, 2108 Indecision remains a terrible lingering fog for me. It paralyzes me at times as I try to make even the simplest choices. I’m sitting on the edge of the bed staring at the open closet — completely unable to select something to wear. Not because there isn’t...
Lessons from a Haulback
Shortly before my departure from Sierra Leone in June of 2017, Stephen and I took a couple of days for a sort of mini vacation in the capitol city, Freetown. He had other business there and I decided to tag along and rope him into some time at the beach...
Still Be My Vision
I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm . . . (Joel 2:25) Sketches of miniature pots of posies. Some of my personal projects on their way to being greeting cards. July 18,...
Peace Treaty
Dear blog friends — Thank you for your patience with my lack of writing. The last eight months have been some of the hardest since my return from Sierra Leone and the brain has simply refused to engage in writing. Months of doctor visits, which seemed like dead ends and...
Bigger Hands
Ah, New Year, a time of reflection and reminiscing; a time to look ahead. It’s also a time when I really enjoy reviewing old journal entries. Sometimes I go way back as I did this morning and I had the surprise of coming across a poem I wrote in 1991....
Pancake Explosion!
Original journal entry date: Saturday April 1, 2017 Preface: When I started this blog, I agreed to the terms the Lord was setting before me: that I would be transparent about our life. I’ve read many, many missionary biographies over the years, most of them several times, and the ones...
