I recently gave a talk titled Hurtin’ for Certain to a group of college athletes that attended our ministries, Ultimate Training Camp in Boston. In this principle talk, that teaching Biblical truths and can be applied to sport and to life, I didn’t have to spend much time convincing the audience that trials will come. We all have experienced the brokenness of the world. It is easy to look at our past, and the lives around us and see the...
Her hands freeze above the keys. Her tears run down her cheeks. Her song has come to an end. My patience has left with it. We find ourselves at a familiar impasse. → ...
Our little community has an all volunteer fire/rescue crew. This group of men and women live and work along side each of us, having a variety of jobs and responsibilities, e.g. mechanic, caterer, agent, grocery store clerk… However, when the alarm sounds, they literally cease everything they are doing and rush to the fire station, jump into their prepared gear, and race to serve, not knowing what to expect. I appreciate their willingness to be trained and ready to assist...
Today was one of those delicious Saturdays where we didn’t have anywhere to go or anything scheduled. These days are rare. I woke up today, knowing that a long full day was stretched out ahead of me and I wanted to make the most of it. We have had about 2 weeks of summer so far and my house clearly reflected it. I went into the bathroom and noticed that the drawer that held the toothbrushes for about half of...
I was searching my bible app for a verse. I feel like it is a real verse from the bible but I couldn’t find it. Maybe it is just Truth from the Holy Spirit or some interpretation I have owned of a different passage. I looked in my bible for something that sounded like this: What the devil intended for evil the Lord can use for good. If anyone has an accurate verse that cites this, please share with me!...
This week I drove to an outlying town for a home visit….way out on the edge of the county. As I was driving the mama texted me and said she and her toddler were out back putting up a trampoline she had bought for her boys. I got to the house and walked out back. Sweet young single mama of 2 precious boys was in the back yard starting to assemble a mini tramp she had purchased off of swap...
Recently, I talked with a couple in church that are waiting to adopt. They finished their home study and are now a waiting family. They didn’t ask me for any advice but I gave it to them anyway. I told them this. When we were done with all the busy work of adoption and began to wait, I would pray and pray and pray for our child that was coming, for the birth family, for the process, for our life...
The phrase “orphan crisis” usually brings to mind the faces of children, but every orphaned child bears the story of a vulnerable mother. If we are serious about impacting the orphan crisis, then we must acknowledge the inextricable link of orphans and vulnerable women. Not all orphanages, or orphan care organizations, believe in holistic orphan care, which grants dignity and real transformative opportunity not only to orphaned children, but to vulnerable women as well. In Congo (where my children...
Everyone is welcome to join us in Sioux Center next week Thursday for our Foster Care Prayer Vigil. May is National Foster Care Month and we are excited to gather together and pray for the workers, families, and the children impacted by foster care! → ...
This job of parenting through adoption can be hard, it certainly is different than parenting biological children. It isn’t bad or wrong, it is just different. God has been speaking to my husband and myself over the past couple of months about the magnitude of the job we signed up for. We continue to walk along side our 8 year old as she is full-on processing grief and loss right now. It is hard, it is painful to be a...
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