About Between the Verses
With two careers, two mortgages, two car payments, and two kids, we had the American Dream squared. But God had bigger plans and called us out of our complacency and into full-time overseas ministry. We abandoned the American Dream for a Kingdom Dream in 2004, and God blessed us with two more children in the process. During a study of Daniel, I was overwhelmed with the idea that I could never be as good a servant as Daniel. God was kind to remind me that there was a lot of living between the verses. God has shared with us key events, highs, and lows for His glory and our edification in His Word. But there are also the dailies that He uses to prepare us and make us more like Him that aren’t so much documented for the heroes of faith. Life between the verses. Lessons Learned
I couldn’t believe, after being sick all week and not wanting to be here, I was given this opening
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No Complaints Here
Or maybe, just maybe, God was filling us with grace to make us blameless and harmless so that we could shine for Him, even in the middle of all that trash and sewage and despite our human tendencies to complain.
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Even in the Small Things
Words on the screen blurred through tears as I fumbled encouragement through the keyboard of my computer.
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Kindergarten Food Ministry Challenge
Called to be an apostle. Called to share the Hope of the nations. Called to a new administrative role in a desperate desert land. Called. To Kindergarten lunch duty?
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Serving New Neighbors
Shards of bricks and broken tiles fill “potholes.” Bits of run-over glass sparkle in the sun. Ruts carved in the road during a long-ago rain trap our tires and even a gentle coaxing results in the whole vehicle swaying and jumping. Spurts and puffs of silty dust eek into the vents and door cracks.
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Breathe in
As we exited onto the highway, my mood was captured by dozens of wind mills standing sentry along the freeway. Their cadence remained steady despite turbulent winds blasting sand through the valley. Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.
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8 days … 3,792 miles … 4 kids … 1 car
What would possess us to attempt such an adventure in just eight days? Some formula of sharing life combined with the genetic makeup in our Christian DNA? A longing to connect as the Body of Christ? Serving overseas is an oxymoron of triumph and heartbreak.
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Nothing is Too Small
“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. …” – Matthew 6:26a My mouth is swollen upper lip to eyeballs, plumping up my face like a beaver. My six-year-old son asked me this morning, “Mommy, are you going to stay [...] Read the Rest »
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Between the Verses
Trusting the Spirit “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6:7-8 My high school boys were spread [...] Read the Rest »
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