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I remember the first time I called a friend from the floor of my bedroom in the Philippines and confessed I wasn’t fit to be a mom. Someone needs to come get Nicole and bring her to the kind of person she deserves, I said over the phone through tears. Surely anyone would be betterContinue reading “Learning it’s okay to fail.”

I am a camp girl through and through. Non-camp people can say what they want. I simply cannot be swayed that camp is anything less than an imperfect, but beautiful place! So it feels like a fun gift from God to me that all these years later on the other side of the world IContinue reading “Remember and Don’t Forget.”

It’s been almost a month here and I’m finally starting to feel settled. Back in a place where everything is familiar. And also everything has changed. But maybe most of all…I have changed. I didn’t really know what it would be like to come back to the Philippines after being away from this life forContinue reading “Home.”

I still remember the week I left the Philippines like it was yesterday..  Throwing whatever clean clothes I had into a suitcase. Driving out to homes to meet one-on-one with every staff member TRIM had just hired 2 months prior and reworking their entire job descriptions and path ahead… all in the time it tookContinue reading “Back to the Philippines”

“Do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promises as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should be destroyed, but that all should reachContinue reading “The Final Stretch”

The moment for his death had almost come and Jesus found himself in the garden with 3 of his friends who didn’t understand why he kept telling them he was leaving soon. And then there was that moment with the bread and the wine just a few hours earlier…what was that about exactly and whyContinue reading “Thoughts from Holy Week, Part 3”

It had been 48 hours since Jesus’ grand entrance into Jerusalem. The scene ended but the whole place was still buzzing with questions. Who is this guy? Everyone was asking.. Is he a prophet? A king?A big joke? He had accepted their welcome that day with all its gestures and palm branches, but he knewContinue reading “Thoughts from Holy Week- Part 2”

Passover, 33 AD. As someone who typically only gets to see my friends and family once every couple of years, I can picture in my mind so clearly the excitement that must have surrounded Passover each year for the nation of Israel. Family and friends are all getting to reunite together back in the sameContinue reading “A Story from Palm Sunday”

“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.”

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.”