When I imagined my life as a parent, I never imagined the magnitude of the responsibility or the depth of the joy. I never imagined the weightiness of the love or the all-encompassing nature of the role. I never imagined the depth of the uncertainty or the ability of the task to overwhelm and confuse. I imagined my existing life rolling along and taking with it these new lives with each turn and season. Another few years, another little human. Another few years and yet another person to … [Read more...] about Erasing Expectations
McCarthyMks
Where Do We Run?
Reassurance. Uncertainty. Comfort.These words were on my heart this morning after my very ordinary task of dropping the kids off at school. For the past 18 months, people all over the world have been enduring a season of change. A season of unknowns. A season of new normals . A season of new routines and uncertainty. For the past month, those new normals have changed again in Papua New Guinea - bringing new restrictions in the hopes of slowing the spread of Covid within this beautiful country. … [Read more...] about Where Do We Run?
More Than Just Pictures…
When I look at these pictures, I see and feel so many things. I see my firstborn - oh, how I love him and wish him all the Christ-centered joy, purpose, confidence and contentedness in the world. I see the amazing people who have served here as teachers - pouring into the lives of our son’s and daughters at just the right times - oh, how I appreciate them and couldn’t imagine our lives without the ones who are here currently and those who have gone before - setting the bar of love, grace, … [Read more...] about More Than Just Pictures…
The Curious Case of the Cheesecake in the Kitchen
Depending on your age, you may or may not remember the episode of Friends where Rachel accidentally combines a shepherd’s pie recipe with, I think, a trifle recipe. The result was a disgusting mess of sweet and savoury and a pretty hilarious episode of television.Well, I had my own, ‘Rachel’ moment this past semester. As I shared with you on our other blog, we have been trying some different things for our oldest, Benjamin (age 11 - Grade 6), to try and help him with focus, attention, school … [Read more...] about The Curious Case of the Cheesecake in the Kitchen
Elbow Room
“From the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety.” Psalm 61:2 (NLT)Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Have you ever felt like the tasks before you were too great. The unknowns too daunting. The stakes too high? I have felt this way so palpably in the past few months. Over the past three years, we have navigated more transition as a family than we have in the 5 years prior and these past few months we have felt as … [Read more...] about Elbow Room
