God Can Use Anything to Put You On Someone Else’s Heart
It might just be your name . . . When I arrived on campus for my first semester of Bible college, a wild car accident had left me with a…
When You Just Want to Have a Baby
Sometimes, you just want to have a baby. Period. I remember well the years I spent begging God for the gift of being a mom. But can I let you…
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How I Learned the Necessity of Self-Care
I sped down 38th Street on my way to meet one of three or four girls I mentored. My college student staple--a pizza pretzel in a white paper bag, sat…
How God Prepared Me to Eat Whatever On the Mission Field
One year in college I couldn't afford to travel home for Thanksgiving, so a lady from church invited me to her family's Thanksgiving in nearby Kentucky. When we arrived, my…
Dear God, Please Forgive Me
NO WAY was I going to be a foreign missionary as a single woman!!! I didn't want to end up a strange, cat-hoarding old lady with a bun on top…
Sometimes You Just Mess Up
I was so proud of myself that I straightened my posture until I was a full six inches taller than normal. I was on my first Amazon River trip to…
But I Thought I’d Be Married By Now
New Missionary-on plane to Peru-still single . . . I couldn't help bursting into tears. I was genuinely ready, excited and intrigued about what lay ahead, but I still struggled…
The Day I Learned to Fish, For Real
Several of us from the Peruvian Amazon village of Grau took a trip one day in a long, tall, peke-peke canoe to visit a friend about an hour away. About…
What a Black Woman in Brooklyn Has in Common with a Jewish Woman in Antiquity
At six-years old, I overheard someone say my father was dead. I did not yet fully understand the finality of dead, but I sort of understood that after that day,…