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If God Is At the Neighbors’ House, How Can He Be Here Too?
“Mommy, will you come with me to the bathroom? You haven’t done it in awhile,” he wheedles, an expert in emotional manipulation at just four years of age. He’s right – I’d just returned from 8 days in Bolivia and hadn’t been available to keep him company in that most fearful of rooms in our…
Read MoreHow the Other Half Lives (except it’s actually “The Other 95%”)
Do you ever wonder how the other half lives? I have, but I had no idea just how hard it was until I saw it two weeks ago in Bolivia. And then I discovered here that this isn’t the way half the world lives — it’s actually how 95% of the world lives. This is…
Read MoreA Fearful Metamorphosis
My entire life, people have told me how to be me. I suspect this is a very common experience — humanity strives for uniformity, fearing and suffocating diversity. For me, these messages came via “how to be a good Christian female.” In the circles I’ve found myself in for the past 35 years, I’ve been…
Read More“It’s Their Eyes” – Deeper Story
It’s their eyes. That’s what I remember most. Not the smell. Not the dirt and dust stiffening their clothes and hair, crusted on their skin, jammed under their fingernails. I stopped seeing that after awhile. Not the perpetually drippy noses. Not the cheeks on men, women, and babies alike all chapped black. Read the rest…
Read MoreWhile I Was Out [of the country] or “Why I Have the Best Husband in the World”
It was 2am when I opened the door and slipped into our bedroom for the first time in 9 days. And this is what awaited me. Well, all of this except the scarf from Bolivia and the sunshine streaming in the windows. Then add back in a man sleeping in the bed. My exhausted husband…
Read MoreTop 15 One-Liners from the World Vision Bolivia Bloggers Trip #wvbb
While we did a lot of crying and got into many serious discussions, we also had a lot of fun as a group during our week in Bolivia. Here’s just a sampling of the laughter and the antics. 15. “Jung Seou! Jung Seou!”Bolivians when they spotted Lindsey and mistook her for a famous Korean soap-opera…
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