Have you ever watched a friend or loved one walk a path fraught with pain, only to feel completely helpless? Or have you tried—again and again—to help someone make better choices, only to have that person throw it all back in your face? Been there. Doing that. So I pray (to cover the worry). I […]
Suffering the blessing
I love/hate it when you go to church and the sermon hits just a little too close to home… and when you can’t help but let the tears fall onto your lap silently. One such Sunday, the speaker talked about something that — for his family — was one of those defining moments we all have. You […]
Me + FROG
We haven’t even moved back to the States yet and it’s already happened. I told God he wasn’t allowed to move me back to the U.S. until I was ready to do so without falling back into my old ways. So when he gave us the green light to relocate back to our passport country […]
Comfortable to Complain
We were in a long security line at the airport. We had finally gotten to the point where I started taking off my shoes and belt, when another employee called us over. “There’s an empty line over here,” she motioned. So we followed her. But the “empty” line wasn’t so empty. To top it off, we’d ended […]