Writings and reflections on life, struggles, joys, the little moments of life for encouragement and meditation on who God is and how we relate to Him in daily life.
Vulnerability. The word alone makes my skin crawl. Blogging is public. I don’t like public. My favorite types of places are secluded mountaintops where I can see the world, but no one can see me. My room in a quiet nook with a cup of coffee and a closed door. A river bank where the only noise is the water crashing against the rocks as it flows downstream. My parent’s back porch in the East…
Two years seems like enough time to grieve, right? Sitting cramped in my economy seat with a pit of emptiness in my stomach leaving China with no return ticket, God comforted me through another’s loss. “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept. We remembered Zion. If I […] forget you o’ Jerusalem may my right hand forget its skill. Psalm 137:1 & 5 (NIV paraphrase) Leaving the Shanghai airport, one of China’s east coast…
by Sue I don’t like airports. In fact, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say I’m afraid of them. This is rather unfortunate because, being a missionary, I’m left to face my fear on many occasions. It’s strange, but my baggage always seems heavier in an airport. And I don’t mean my suitcase. In the airport all sorts of feelings of anxiety, loss and loneliness seem to ooze out, my mental zips unable to…
Grace is a gift. An unearned, undeserved package deal we receive upon our salvation and baptism into the Faith. As a teen, someone described this grace through a picture story concerning the day of judgment in which I would stand before God. The story went as such… Standing before God at my final judgment with nothing to show for my life but a long list of offenses I’d committed against a holy there was silence.…
I want to hear from you. If some aspect of your journey needs to be shared please contact me. One hope I have from hosting this blog is hearing from other pilgrims who want to share what they are learning, struggling through, or finding joy in along with the detours in between. Perhaps God has laid something on your heart that you want to share with the community of Christ. If you have an interest…
