useless
There’s something about feeling useless that I don’t like. Like last week when I was laid out with something that woke me in the middle of the night with a shaking fever, then a rotten headache all day where…
There’s something about feeling useless that I don’t like. Like last week when I was laid out with something that woke me in the middle of the night with a shaking fever, then a rotten headache all day where…
“Father, I accept it. Thank you. Thank you for taking my son. I know he was suffering. I accept it Father. Thank you.” Today is Thanksgiving, and these were the very first words of gratitude that I…
Well I’ve been back in Nauta for a week now from Lima and the states, and it has taken me by surprise in some ways. First of all, I was glad to be back. I was (rationally) afraid that…
After posting yesterday, I read Oswald Chambers today. Can you be a prophet even if you’re dead? Amazing.
Why am I so much more concerned about God taking care of me than I am about being broken bread and poured out wine? After being on the mission field (leaving it all, right?) for some time now, I…
I’m still pondering why people and relationships cannot and should not function on the capitalistic laws of supply and demand… and I had a small (and ongoing) epiphany: the other side to viewing people as consumer products is that it…
Today I am struck by the thought (due to the conglomeration of many different events and impressions) that there is no good excuse or situation for treating people as commodities… no matter if it is for labor as an employee,…
Just a short update on goings on here in Nauta. First of all – huge praise! Who said that God can’t move mountains? This last Monday night twelve pastors from here in Nauta got together to pray – and to…
Last Wednesday was the first meeting of the ladies discipleship group, which went well enough (praise God), but the way I saw God most that day had little to do with the evening group. We were to meet that evening…