We wake up today in waiting. Perhaps today, more than any other Easter before. Yesterday we remembered Jesus crucified. Tomorrow we joyfully celebrate His resurrection. But what to do with today? The waiting. The in between of the “what is happening?”…“how could this be good?”…the ”what did I miss?”… and the promise fulfilled. I think often about whatContinue reading “The In Between.”
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Miracles.
“Let’s just not expect any miracles, okay?” That’s what the doctor said to me when I took Nicole in for her final check-up before her surgeries. And it’s the same thing he’s said to me at almost every weekly follow-up appointment since then. “We’re giving it our very best and only time will tell, butContinue reading “Miracles.”
“My heart feels warm”, she said.
The dust collects in between my toes as I walk down the road towards the next house. Even though it’s 100 and something degrees hot outside, I pull my black scarf over and around my head so the motors passing by hopefully won’t take much notice to the white girl in the village. I can’tContinue reading ““My heart feels warm”, she said.”
Show up.
It was 5:42am on Friday morning. I was sitting outside my house on our bamboo bench, trying to prepare my heart and mind for the day ahead in the village. The breeze was colder and stronger than other mornings, and the sun was taking a lot longer to rise than it should. This is aContinue reading “Show up.”
I am a prisoner of hope.
I have knowingly, and sometimes unknowingly, been a prisoner to many things in my short 24 years of life. As a child, soccer was always my captor. I was constantly rushing from school practice to club practice and spending every weekend out at the fields. I sometimes missed school dances and birthday parties, I didn’tContinue reading “I am a prisoner of hope.”
