What do we tell our kids?

Raising kids is hard. There are days that I’ve wondered why we decided to have kids. When I look at the world around me and all the tragedy and hatred and pure evil, I wonder why we waited so long, why I was born when I was, why we raised our kids in the US and not in some remote fishing village off the Arctic Sea, or why we aren’t living in some country where the worst we have to worry about is the bears or the lions. Some days, I’d rather face the threat of the pack of a lions than to face the demons that walk this earth…

Mission Work – Bringing Jesus to the World

Whether you believe you are going to a country where Christianity Is strictly prohibited or whether you are going to a country where Christians are known, but maybe the numbers aren’t where they need to be to carry God’s word, there is a whole spectrum of views and opinions in the middle. You don’t have to go far to do mission work, either.

What reality do we live in?

My heart hurts so much. I’ve never felt this much grief over someone I didn’t know. I can’t place the grief, I can’t understand it. I can’t figure out how to get it to go away. I can’t figure out how to stop the tears and I don’t even know why I’m crying. My soul is broken. My soul is broken for the family he left behind, but my heart rejoices at his new home. Charlie understood (just as the disciples did) that there’s a risk…