My letter to future Goers...
2 years in a flash. One moment I was dreaming about what it would be like to live and serve overseas and the next it seems I am back in Oregon after doing the thing, only there was a lot in the middle too. And that’s where all the good stuff is… right in the middle. Living outside comfort, socializing outside comfort, eating outside comfort, working outside comfort and simply functioning in a world that is so different from your own is hard. While I felt so ready to be where I was I learned quickly in my initial transition that I needed to take time to lament the things… Read more >>
Immersed
After more than a month in Sofia, I am still starry eyed and ready to take on the new world that Bulgaria has to offer me. It’s been a time of continual intake of information; navigating with maps and walking my way through the city, studying the local language and culture through books and personal contacts, and searching for the Lord’s imprint on the buildings, people, food, cultural practices, and natural creation. Oh how overwhelmingly wonderful it has been to recognise the blessing of a body capable of learning and growing. After over a month of this… Read more >>
the SWEET giver
Matthew 7:7-12 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the law and the… Read more >>