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Gentle Voice
When I began writing this blog, the Lord urged me to share my personal lessons not just general interest missionary stories. I must confess that at times I felt less inclined to write of things so personal, so revealing, so very private. But the writers who have meant the most...
Joy Cometh in the Morning
My recent slow and meditative reading of Psalms has been particularly rich as the Lord tenderly helps me with my personal struggles, discouragements, and frustrations. This exchange of thoughts with my Heavenly Father was especially helpful one lonely morning. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the...
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...
And Jesus answering . . .
Date of original journal entry: April 8, 2016 Luke 10:29-30 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves . . . In reading Luke 10 and the...
Symphony of Morning Mayhem
Preface: This story is about a dark valley that brought me to the place of renewed focus and purpose. In our village we faced a very difficult trial when for 18 long months we were kept awake as many as five or even six nights a week by an all-night...
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...
Good Wine
Preface: One morning I was sitting on our veranda looking out over the beautiful Kangari Hills, drinking in the very incredibleness of being in Sierra Leone, the unlikeness. Our ages alone would suggest otherwise. After 28 years of marriage, we started our West African adventure when Stephen was 56 and...
So Run
Date of original journal entry: June 25, 2018 “And this I do for the gospel’s sake . . . know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.” II Conrinthians 9:23-24 My...
Oranges
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. Psalm 45:8 Making purchases in Freetown with the aid of our friend Mary. Date of original journal entry: December 2009 Thick...
