I think I'm just here a bit pulled at the seams In this world, left that world Not quite sure what it means. I love it here, breathed out, was wowed by its' beauty. Sunk back into friendships, sunk back into life but there's still such an ache in my heart that this life is a part, not the whole - there's a part of me there. And it comes over me, I get caught unaware. Are there beautiful friends here? Yes, more than few. Are there people who see me, who know me who root for my life and my … [Read more...] about Stumbling Together
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Floating Between
Have you ever felt lost in the midst of reality struggling to cross over mind, heart and soul to a new time and place while a part of your life's vanished fast - without trace. One day I was there, today somewhere else. Am I who I was there or that self will I shelve while I sort out next steps; fresh starts sometimes mean that a former self flickers - is lost in between these two lives that I live and each one not the same from what this world's like now and the way it had been. So I float … [Read more...] about Floating Between
When Connections Go Dark
British Columbia - July 2023 PNG - August 2023 Though we were silent, we weren't absent. For journeys of faith are winding, confusing and all together consuming. The call becomes the concentration and all else the periphery. A beautiful periphery full of amazing people and priceless experiences, but things that pull us up and out of the intangible decision making into the world in which we must still live well. A world we love. People we … [Read more...] about When Connections Go Dark
Transitions
Transitions. Transitions is one of those 'buzz' words in missions and a word that, to be honest, I sometimes get tired of hearing. I think that my main aversion to this word is that it is not a word that is reserved for missionaries so I feel the need to explain that fact anytime I might find myself using it. It is a reality for those who are moving often, no matter what the reasons, and certainly not just for missionaries but it is a very real thing anytime you uproot your family and move … [Read more...] about Transitions
