Bolivia
Faith Is Not Belief – Deeper Story
It was the kind of sermon I’ve heard all my life — intellectual, loaded with facts, focused almost exclusively on getting the hearer to believe a certain statement or point of view to be true. We’d prided ourselves on our charts of memorized verses and stacks of notebooks crammed with sermons, and we called that…
Read MoreOld Enough To Know Better
Did you know that older children, especially boys, wait longer for sponsors? A couple of weeks ago, I met boys who had been on the waiting list for sponsors for six years. It broke my heart. Apparently, even in our compassion, we’re suckers for cute and little. I get it – I think puppies and…
Read MoreGratitude Can’t Stay Silent
(if you receive this post in an email reader, please click over to my blog to view the video.) I sent my kids to school this morning. The older two, that is. The youngest has decided I make a great jungle gym as I try to peck out a few words before we start the…
Read MoreI Am Addicted to “New”
He’s surrounded by dozens of cars, at least half of which are from the movies “Cars” and “Cars 2.” Yet, at least once a day he asks me if we can go the store with toys. Whenever I round the kids up to run errands, he asks, “Are there toys there? Can I get a…
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…
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