Chappadou
Oh man, I don't even remember the last time I posted on this thing, but I DEFINITELY know a post is overdue. There's a lot of debrief on, and I'm not even quite sure where to begin, but here goes! A quick thing on the month and a half of training I went to: it was a very life-giving time right before leaving for the field. Lots of good, nothing necessarily bad--more so challenging than anything, and learning to identify and even possibly embrace the "different". During my time on the East Coast, I found myself getting humbly stretched in ways I hadn't before, and I grew increasingly aware of… Read more >>
Dreams
I have been interested in knowing more about dreams for as long as I can remember. What do they mean? Why do we dream? Who is trying to tell us something, even our own selves? I think the reason for my intrigue has to do with the fact that I don't dream often, or at the very least I can never remember if I do. So when I wake up with a dream fresh in my conscious state, I tend to take it very seriously. Why did I dream this time? I'm sure we all can agree that we don't only dream when we are asleep. We dream even when we are awake. I'm not talking about daydreaming. I'm talking about the… Read more >>Here but There
And never truly anywhere anymore. But that's how it all goes, I suppose, in such a liminal time that I haven't asked for--but have borrowed, so it's never truly mine. One thing I've been given, of such freedom for me, was costly for Him and yet He sought to set free: the slave, the captive, all that know only bondage to tears, pain, and suffering--we're told that we're wanted. He's come, lived, and died--and lived again that's for sure. To be sure of this truth or we're worse off than before. And so what does this do, what's this mean for our lives? Sure, we can run in this… Read more >>
Learning to Love in Disappointment
It's been six weeks into my fundraising campaign to work with my organization. Six difficult yet glorious weeks of energy spent with meeting people, making calls, sending emails and letters. Hands down, this first half of the campaign timeline has been a bum-rush of sanctification, haha. As I'm exhausting the first portion of the list I'm finding that I'm dreading contacting the second half. The first half was filled with people who know me and my vocation, people who love the Lord and me, and so I was more confident going into appointments and meeting with them. The second half is… Read more >>