I can’t believe the different pieces of the day belong to the same life…
Before we left Nashville, Dot Anderson (a beloved saint at Belmont UMC and missionary in Mozambique and Kenya for 30+ years) told us that we would feel a tensions straddling two worlds – the people and the church we came to work [...]
Archive for August, 2009
So Surreal
August 30, 2009Long day followed by long day…
August 29, 2009The blogs are backing up in my head. There’s so much I want to process, record and share. I have three journal entries from this week that stop mid-sentence as I was called away by family, guests, phone calls or workmen.
I feel like I have been able to handle most everything that has come my [...]
Just a note to say…
August 26, 2009I got home this evening about 11pm after a LONG day of running errands, managing the carpenter and electrician, missing Jeff and attending a church meeting… and I was pissy. Exhausted. Dejected. Weary and worn.
But I walked into a clean kitchen (hallelujah!) and the kids safely in bed. I put all the fruits and vegetables [...]
Communication
August 24, 2009I’ve been struggling recently with communication back home to friends and family. Life is so different and our experiences so rich in novelty, emotion, spirituality, struggle and joy. It’s difficult to capture and convey all of that in an email, a facebook chat, or even a Skype phone call. So much is left unsaid – [...]
Marie Claire is here!
August 21, 2009Marie Claire was in my youth group her 7th and 8th grade years (2003 – 2005) and our families are close friends. Last spring I mentioned – half jokingly – in a Sunday School presentation about our mission that we would love to have someone join us to help watch the kids. Little did I [...]
