Adventures in Missions

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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go back when in your heart you begin to understand. There is no going back.      -Lord of the Rings   I was sitting on an…

"Which fork do I use? ….how do you hold a fork anyway?"   My team and I had a two day safari at a resort a couple hours out of Cape Town on Thursday and Friday and we quickly discovered…

You know, it's funny. I can vividly remember standing on that stage singing a Muppets song with a group of high school seniors who I had grown-up loving and I vividly remember trying not to cry and being absolutely convinced…

The future. Dun dun dun dun. I've noticed something, people in the United States are obsessed with the future. In Elliot's words, "That seems to be every adult's favorite question."    You hear it all the time. What are you…

I Skyped a friend whom I haven't talked much with recently a few days ago and in that conversation I realized that my vocabulary has changed so much so that I had to actually explain the phrases I was using…

What do you do then?   "I forgive her."    I was trying so hard not to be angry, because if my two abused 11 year olds could forgive their parents then I sure as heck better be able to.…

Forty minutes. We had been aimlessly milling around for forty minutes. Riely and I could not find a place to sit, stores kept closing and she couldn't decide for the life of her if she wanted ice cream or not.…

  I was sitting in the office at school trying to work on the VBS I'm directing in a couple of weeks when I just started writing this on the computer. Office processing sessions, you know? I love writing, I…