On Missions, Faith and Care
Entering Rest
Our Sabbath is a practice of stopping, delighting, worship and rest. It isn’t lazy, but it surrenders the tasks of the week and yields to the gift and promise of the Creator. We often get lost in stories through film and books, and we play together. We worship as a family with our church community. We eat more slowly, linger longer, and resist as much as possible the constant pull of a breakneck pace world.
Pursuing Story
Have you ever experienced telling your story to someone who is listening attentively and compassionately? It is a rare experience in our world.
Yet story, and just how important it is for us to tell our own and hear others’, seems to be the recurring theme for us for years.
Be Who You Are
I have spent far too much of my energy and emotions in my life feeling envious of who others are. Part of my journey has been to accept who I am and who I am on my way to becoming. And then living it out.
Help Needed
The roadblocks and uncertainty we faced was comparatively small, but in the context of our lives it was a bleak season.
I needed help.
Living Onwards
During my current wandering with God's people in Genesis, I was reflecting on the cycle of exile. Leaving home has become something of a motif in my story - I'm neither a stranger nor an expert. My roots have learned to dangle aloft, dropping clods of dirt as they await new earth. As I meditated on Joseph's faith-fueled declaration in Genesis 50:20, I came to see the choice we have in every wilderness journey:
We can live backwards or we can live onwards.