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The Potter
In my late teens and early 20s, I fell in love with the craft of pottery. To me, it was an “all-in” type of art where my whole body was involved in the process. I really liked that. I even had my own potter’s wheel as the mudroom of our...
Life in the African Bush
From Journal April 2011 Harmattan dust choking the air looking out over Baomahun from our hilltop mission station. Two more ranges of hills visible when the air is clear. It was the beginning of April and it was HOT! The dry season is brutal, sucking all...
A New Year’s Day
Because of my reading schedule, I read the entire Bible in less than a year. This means that at each New Year’s Day, I am beginning the Bible at a different point. I like that because it takes my reading out of the “routine” and keeps things fresh. This particular...
Redefining Part III: Flowers for My Basket
As a new year creeps up on me, I typically like to take stock of where I have been and where I desire to be going forward. This year is no different and my recent theme of Redefining is well suited to this annual tradition of going through old journals. ...
What Are They Among So Many
Kono is a stronghold of spiritual darkness Original journal entry — March 31, 2017 John 6:9 One of the disciples saith … but what are they among so many? John 6:12 he said unto his disciples … Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be...
Lessons From A Broom
Lessons from a Broom Prologue: These journal entries are among the first in which the Lord began to use my struggles with cultural adjustments to show me spiritual insights. We had only been in Sierra Leone for a few months and were still renting a house on the outskirts of...
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...
