It’s easy to quickly pass over the story of Ruth. Her life story is only a couple pages muddled in the midst of the “boring” Old Testament stories of the Law, Judges, and Kings. For me, Ruth is more like a hidden gem tucked away in the middle of very poignant movements of God loving his people toward redemption. Ruth’s story is the knot that ties God’s orchestrated plan together. Not only that, she’s a…
I am not much of an adventurist. I don’t take many risks and honestly, I’m scared of more than I’d like to admit. I don’t ski because I fear heights. To ski, you have to jump off the lift to go down the mountain. I can never let go. I’d rather ride the lift around until I accidentally plop into a mound of snow. In summary, anything involving letting go without control is not my…
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…
Making all things new The time to leave China arrived. As a person of imagery, the only picture in my spirit was darkness. A girl standing on a path unlit and shadowed. Where did the light unto my path go? Where do I go? I thought I’d be in China for years to come, but God’s holy flame that guided my calling and life began moving. Like the Israelites, who followed the cloud by day…
